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Bullying Essay Sarah Scheinert Period 4, English Mr. Geib

In a private school, you may think everyone is nice and is friends with everyone. You might think that no one is ever bullied verbally or physically, but after experiences I went through I know the truth. Yes it is true that there are rarely any fights, but I have gone through a lot of verbal abuse. I have had to deal with this ever since elementary school. I have had people call me names, I’ve had people that said they were my friends, stab me in the back because they were being made fun of for hanging out with me, and I was accused of things by those people for things I never even did, and I have even heard people talk about me right in front of my face, all because I look different. The major bullying started for me in the seventh grade, and many of the things that people said was really hurtful. I can’t believe that at a private school would resort to doing things like that.

The things that happened at my school were pretty mild. I went to Ventura Missionary ever sense pre-school, and they had some very strict rules. Although if a person went behind the scenes, almost everything seems opposite of what the school actually teaches. It is rare that you will ever see or hear of a fight happening at this school, but only a couple of fights have happened before. Also, if you listened in on some of the conversations the some of the students had, they were normally about other students. Now, if you have ever heard about this school before, you might be thinking, “That can’t happen at that school. That’s all wrong.” Well it is all true, and how do I know, I know because I lived it. Bullying not only affects the bulliers, it mostly effects the bullied. There are many cases for some people where physical and verbally bullied have committed suicide because the bullying was too hard for them to bear. People should not take the issue of bullying to lightly. I can greatly affect the state mentally and physically of a person.

Now with all this bullying going on all across the country, is anyone trying to take a stand to stop this from happening and before things get worse? Also, is it even possible to change the people who do the bullying into doing something good???? Some adults in my different schools around our country are actually trying to help change students in many schools and trying to make the bullying go away. Although, it is not always possible to fully change a bully, but we should still continue to try.

Bullying is not something that should be taken lightly. It is a very serious matter that affects tons of kids. Sometimes bullying can become so drastic, it can affect the mental states of students. Try to teach others that bullying has a negative effect on most students.