Bullies

Darien Horwood , Grade 10

“I can’t believe you didn’t stop that. I know you could have.”

That is what we should say if we see some one being bulled and no one helps.

Did you know that approximately one in ten kids have bullied others? That means in a school of 736 there are 73 kids who hurt some one else intentionally. 

Well, this has to stop now. Now, we all know that there are different types of bullying, but let me go over some of them; verbal bullying, social bullying, physical bullying, and cyber bullying.

Kids are bullied outside of class every seven minutes and every twenty-five minutes during class. That means that in one eighty-minute class alone, a student is intimidated three different times.

Being bullied doesn’t toughen up your kid, in fact it makes them physically sick, with stomach aches, headaches, panic attacks, insomnia, too much sleep, shyness, and nightmares. The realty is that children who are bullied are more likely to become depressed or commit suicide then any other children.

Kids who are bullied get a feeling of abandonment, because they believe that no one cares that’s how they feel.

The fact that no one stands up for victims doesn’t help the fact at all. It is said that if someone intervened within ten seconds, the bulling would stop. That’s all it takes, ten seconds to stop this. The cycle that we have become familiar with is this; few stand up for victims of bullying, because they fear that they will be next. The only way to stop this cycle is if one person stands up for another, and hope the act becomes reciprocal.

That’s all we need to do; stand up and spend ten seconds on some kid who needs your help. Ten seconds, that’s all.