Bullying
Would Eliminating Bullying Reduce Suicides?
Who Am I?
My name is Sarah Bressler, I'm currently a sophomore at F.L Schlagle Highschool. My favorite class is art and I love photography, in the future I hope to be a professional photojournalist. I like to draw and listen to music, I dislike when people are judgmental also when people talk bad about themselves.
Would Eliminating Bullying Reduce Suicides?
This is my essential question, I chose this question because the topic I could think most about is bullying because I dislike it so much. So when we broke our topics down I noticed that mostly when thinking about bullying it usually leads to suicide or depression, so it got me wondering about if someone were to go back in time and make it to where bullying didn't exist would there be less suicides? So I plan to do as much research as I can to find out if it would or not.
Explanation Of Topic
What I already know is how much suicides there have been due to things like cyber-bullying, getting abused, rumors, etc. What I hope to find out is if suicides would be reduced if more people were friends than enemies. Also if bullies were punished to like a different school for just them would there be less bullying going on or would people just start picking up on it sense the other bullies left? I hope others will gain knowledge that bullying is definitely not an okay thing and that society will be a lot better without bullying existing.
Have you ever been bullied/Have you ever bullied someone?
These two questions are both the same percentage, this tells me that even if your being bullied you've also bullied someone else at the same time. So maybe this means when your bullied it increases depression or anger so much you feel the need to make someone else feel the same way. Maybe it makes you feel better? Or maybe your just trying to make them bully someone else instead of you?
What do you think people mostly bully others about?
This tell me that people are known to getting judged on their looks and how they act. Also they're known for being bullied for their race and weight and many other things.
Do you think people start getting depressed when they're bullied?
People mostly say that bully victims do get depressed when they're bullied. But just because they get depressed doesn't mean they go straight to suicide cause most people said they didn't lose anyone from suicide by being bullied.
Would you stop a bully if you saw them in action?
A lot of people thankfully would stop a bully if they saw them which is good. But more people said they wouldn't stop them if the bully was their friend than they did just saying no, maybe cause they don't want their friend in trouble or because they don't wanna lose that friend even if their doing something bad.