why bullying
by Damian Wennesheimer
What is Bullying?
Bullying is when a person hurts or harms a person in a physical or emotinal way. Bullying comes in 3 different ways. Bullying comes in verbal,cyber,and physical bullying. Each one can hurt children. Over the past ten years, bullying has increased. Some feel that bullying is just a part of a kid's childhood. However, bullying should not be a part of a kid's childhood and has many damaging effects.
Bullying causes issues in school .
. In StopBullying.gov, they found that bullying caused poor grades, GPA's went down and so did standard test scores
. The site also said that students are more likely to miss, skip or drop out of school
. Even a small amount of bullied children retaliate through extreme measure. For example, 12 of 15 of school shotting cases in the 1990's, shooters had a past of being bullyied.
Bullying cause mental issues in kids.
In Education.com, they stated that kids have depression after getting or being bullied
They also said, kids have suicidal thoughts or even will take their own lives
For example, Kamerson Jacobsen took his own life when being cyber bullyed by his classmates.
Seth Walsh took his life after admitting that he was gay because the kids tormented him.
Schools should have stricter rules for bullying because bullying could lead to PTSD.
- Studies show that severe cases of bullying can lead to P.T.S.D. P.T.S.D stands for Post dramatic stress distorter
- A Norwegian study found 33% of kids who got bullied have showed symptoms of P.T.S.D
- A study showed that girls show symptoms of P.T.S.D before boys. They also found that the worst symptoms were a small group of kids who got bullied and were the bully