Dear Parents and Students,
Waking up in the morning dreading going to school because you know your bully is waiting for you. The strange feeling you get in your stomach when you walk in the school hoping that they’re not around the corner.When you’re walking down the hall full speed with your head down so no one can see and be tempted to say something. Being bullied is the worst experience to go through, as a kid. Kids are bullied every single day and it doesn't just happen at school it can happen at home as well. Being a victim of bullying hurts way more then some people think.
Being a bully is not just hurting someone physical but mentally as well. In grammar school I was talked about all the time. They would never hurt me physically but it still hurt. Going to class everyday feeling that no one likes you or that some people are just your friend out of pity. Going through that experience made me very paranoid. Every where I would go I thought that anything someone whispered was about me. I started to become quiet I wouldn’t talk until I got home.
If the teacher ever called on me I would shake my head no and wouldn’t respond to their questions. I never spoke because I was forever afraid of what people would say so I just kept quiet. There were some days when I would walk home and kids on the buses passing by would call out mean names to mean and I just wanted to curl up in a ball in cry. Some days I did cry and I hated walking home from school. One day I was just fed up with everything and I told myself that I not going to let some kids dictate my life. I stopped feeling sorry for myself and stopped caring what people said and thought of me.
I want everyone to be aware of bullying because it doesn’t stop by itself. I don’t ever want some to be silenced like I was. No one should never make you shut yourself in and make you feel bad about yourself. Kids, parents and bystanders need to speak out on bulling so that people can know what going on. If we wait too long something worse can happen. According to an July 14th,2014 article on No Bullying.com, one of 65,000 kids ages 10 -14 commits suicide every year due to bullying. I believe that we can change this number if we speak out and say something. Don’t hold it in because that’s going to hurt you in the long run.
We need to start teaching kids at an early age that bullying is not okay. Kids are starting to bully each other at an early age now and that is not okay. No one that young should have that much anger in them to have to take it out on some innocent kid. We need to get to the root of the problem. If we see it happening don’t look away and think it will stop eventually because it won’t. Talk to both kids because we never know what’s going on in the bully’s head. He could be hurting and doesn’t know how to tell what’s going on.Bullying doesn’t just happen at school kids are bullied at home as well. Everyday kids are being bullied at home physically or verbally. Then comes to school with so much anger and they take it out on an innocent person. We need bullying to come to an end because no one should be afraid to go to school or be afraid to be their self.
Thank You.
