10 Things You Didn’t Know About Bullying by Eber Moreno

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1-According to the Government Stop Bullying Website bullying can threaten students physical and emotionally safety at school and can negatively impact their ability to learn. The best way to address bullying is to stop it before it starts and there is a lot of things that teachers can do to make school more safer and prevent bullying.

2-Encyclopedia Britannica said that a person is bullied when people are bothering others repeatedly over and over, so that can make them take a  negative actions on the part of one or more other persons, and people can have a hard time to defend themselves. Being bullied can make people even kill themselves.

3-According to Encyclopedia Britannica, bullying in other continent like Europe is turning very popular. The school bullying began in the early 1970s because back then people faced a lot of different problems like segregation and racism. Bullying was one of them and it used to happened between white people and black people, in schools, workplace and in other places.

4-According to the Organization Stop Bullying Website they believe that over 3.2 million students are victim of bullying each year, approximately 160,000 teens students skip school because of bullying, 56 percent of students have personally witnessed some type of bullying at school, 1 in 7 students in K-12 is either a bully or victim of bullying. 1 out 10 students drop out of the school because of repeated bullying and physically bullying has increased in elementary school , peaks in middle school and declines in high school. Verbal abuse, on the other hand, remains constant.

5-The Government Stop Bullying Website said that bullying is being mean and disrespectful to another kid over and over again, and that includes teasing, talking about hurting someone, spreading rumors, leaving kids out on purpose, attacking someone by hitting them or yelling at them and bullying doesn’t happen only in person  but it can happen online or through text message.

6-According to the Government Stop bullying Website kids who are bullied can feel like they don’t make a part of this life, and alone. Kids who are bullied have a hard time to go somewhere popular and bullying can make them sad, lonely, and  have problems at school or in family and can make them bully other kids. Kids bully other kids for many reasons like they want to copy their friends, think bullying can make them earn the respect they deserve and think they are better than the kid they are bullying.

7-The Organization Stop Bullying Website describes the types of bullying which includes: Physical  hitting, kicking, punching and spitting or any other physical attack, damage to or taking someone else’s pertence may also constitute as physical bullying. Verbal- name calling, insulting, making racist, sexist, remarks or teasing and using sexually suggestive or abusive language. Indirect- spreading nasty story about someone, being made the subject of malicious rumors and sending abusive mail.

8-According to the Prevention at School from Stop Bullying Website, bullying happen on the road when the drive is cutting other off in a line or preventing someone from merging, chasing other motorists, driving at the high speed in the median of highway to terrify drivers in both lanes, rude gesture such as “the finger”, shouting verbal abuses and hitting other vehicles.

9-The Stop Bullying Website writes that bullying can happen in many different places or ways which includes, school bullying, workplace bullying, cyber-bullying, bullying of the disabled, bullying in the roads, and bullying in other areas like between neighbors.

10-According to the Government Stop Bullying Website there is way to prevent bullying by stop and think before you say or do something that could hurt someone. If you feel like you being mean to someone, find something to do like go watch tv or play video game, talk to an adult you trust, they can help you find ways to be nicer to others, keep in mind that everyone is different not better or worse just different, and if you think you bullied someone in the past, apologize everyone feels better.

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