Why Bully In The First Place?

What is the definition of bullying and why should it end? Bullying affects many students, children, adults, or anybody in many different ways. Bullying is a big problem in the world, from name calling over communication devices to tormenting at schools. Bullying should stop completely because it does not do well for each other in the long run. Just because bullying might make you cooler doesn’t mean it’s not hurting the victim. Teens around the world get bullied, which can haunt them through their whole life. Teachers are a big factor in school bullying by being the stopping factor or even the motivation to bully factor. Bullying will most likely keep going, but coping with the situation in many different ways can help. It’s not just hurting the victim, but bullying can affect witnesses and the bully in a negative way as well.

About 160,000 teens don’t even bother to show up to school every day because of bullying (“11 Facts About Bullying”). Teens around the world get bullied no matter what school they are at. Many remember horrible memories of high school bullying experiences (“Teenage Bullying”). This proves that this does not just start and end in high school, but can haunt you for the rest of your life. Teens who bully tend to use their power, such as physical strength, access to embarrassing information, or popularity, to try and hurt someone else mentally as well as physically (“What Is Bullying”). Teens around the world experience some type of bullying in high school, but it’s up to you to do something about it. Not all of the bullying can be controlled, but, it can be affected by a teacher as well.

One in four teachers see nothing wrong with someone being bullied, and will only get involved with the situation four percent of the time that it happens (“11 Facts About Bullying”). Teachers can be a huge factor in what happens in the classroom. Teachers can contribute to some type of bullying in three different ways: as observers, as perpetrators, and as victims (“Bullying Teachers”). Teachers can be a good conductor of the bullying as well. An example that most teachers might not believe is bullying would be when a child gets a bad grade in class and decides to announce it out loud to the whole class (“Bullying Teachers”). Teachers can be the stop as well as the start of bullying in their classroom and also outside of the classroom. Teachers can put a stop to bullying, but they aren’t the only way of stopping the bullies.

You can try coping with bullying by trying to find some new friends and hang with people that like you for you. A better idea would try and join a group of kids with the same interest as you to help you as well as keeping the bullies away because bullies usually bully when the victim is alone (“Teenage Bullying”). Something that could help is try to tell an adult or teacher about what is going on. A great thing you could do is try to encourage a bullied victim to stay positive and try to befriend them, cheer them up, and brighten there day(“Teenage Bullying”)! Any kind of encouragement to a victim by telling them to tell a teacher what is happening or even what you have seen happen, can make a difference in someone’s life. Coping is one thing in bullying, but you never have to cope with bullying if everyone knows what the effects are while being bullied.

Bullying can cause many terrifying things to a person including impacts on mental health, substance abuse, and suicide. Kids all around this world feel this and suffer from it from the time it starts all the way into adulthood. Kids that have had been a victim of some type of bullying are most likely to experience depression and anxiety, the feeling of sadness and loneliness, a change in how much they sleep and eat, and loss of interest in activities they used to enjoy. You also might see a drop in the victim’s school participation such as their grades and interest in subjects (“Effects of Bullying”). From experience of witnessing as well as receiving bullying, the feeling of being bullied is a tough thing to go through and something nobody should have to deal with. Most, if not all, kids experience or witness some kind of bullying in their lifetime.

Some teens feel that bullying is not a big problem. Some bullies feel that it builds their self-esteem. Some say that it may make them “popular” in school and among their classmates (“What is Bullying”). Even though the bully’s self-esteem is better. Kids that are bullied can go through depression, anxiety, sadness, loneliness, changes in sleep and eating, and lost of interest (“Effects of Bullies”). Also while one is getting more popularity among peers, 160,000 victims of bullying in high school are skipping school and are affected greatly (“11 Facts about Bullying”). So as one is feeling better about whom they are for harming someone else or destroying someone else’s self-esteem the person they are bullying is going through a very hard time and it is no joke on how serious the consequences are for the victim.

Bullying affects everyone no matter what age you are. Bullying can happen in so many ways and is a huge problem in our world to this day and needs to end before it becomes a larger problem. Teens around the world are experiencing this with full affect in and out of schools, which could be helped by teachers in the classroom by being the stopping factor. Coping is a good way to deal with bullying in different ways, but if you knew what bullying did to everyone and it was stopped then nobody would have to cope with it. Bullying will haunt a person for the rest of their life and could become very serious and dangerous in a person’s life. Bullying is life threatening and needs to be stopped before it becomes a larger problem then what it is right now.



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