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R o A D T o Hat Red : A Bullying Book Presented To
R o A D T o Hat Red : A Bullying Book Presented To
R o A D T o Hat Red : A Bullying Book Presented To
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Table
Of Contents
What is Bullying?
Chapter 1 :
Types Of Bullying
Chapter 3:
Suicide
Chapter 5:
Chapter 1: What is bullying?
What is bullying? Great question! Bullying is a very bad thing that happens to
kids on a daily basis. Bullying is caused by a bunch of things, but we will get to that in
the other chapters. Bullying is something nobody wants, nobody deserves bullying,
there is a bunch of bullying types, although, a lot of teens these days think that
cyberbullying is worse than traditional bullying, yet the other ones are still bad.
“The statistics are shocking. In the year 2000 a University of New Hampshire study
found that one out of every 17, or six percent of kids in the United States, had been
threatened or harassed online. But in March of 2006, statistics showed that 75 to 80
percent of 12 to 14 year olds had been cyber bullied. Furthermore, 20 percent of kids
under 18 have received a sexual solicitation. So cyberbullying is clearly on the rise, and
it affects both genders. An American Educational Research Association study shows
that female bullies preferred the use of text messaging harassment versus facetoface
bullying by 2 to 1 (Toppo, 2006).”
http://www.techlearning.com/news/0002/cyberbullyingworsethantraditionalbullying/6
5597
I will be talking about, how bullying is caused, suicide, types of bullying, what bullying is,
and how you can stop the bullying. These are just some of the things about bullying..
“Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a
real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be
repeated, over time. Both kids who are bullied and who bully others may have
serious,
lasting problems
.
In order to be considered bullying, the behavior must be aggressive and include:”
http://www.stopbullying.gov/whatisbullying/definition/
In middle school there are usually kids that want to bully that are not scared
of getting in trouble. During school hours is were kids usually get bullied, the kids that
get bullied are usually not that strong, so the one that bullies usually looks at that kid for
the victim. What the bully might think is that the kid is small and is easy to beat up and
that it’s hard for him or her to get revenge on the bully.. If you are thinking why would a
person bully even though the victim didn’t do anything to the bully, well the bully is just
mean and wants to get all their stress out on the victim. The victims do nothing wrong
95% of the time, it’s usually the bully that wants to verbally/physically do something to
the victim. “Most of time time in middle school, homework is destroyed, papers are
thrown & much more. This is done verbally and physically.”
http://nobullying.com/bullyinginmiddleschool/
Now this is just information I wanted to put in, it is not all the time true and
sometimes you need to know this information!
High school is probably the worst of all bullying, it is always repeated and
probably lasts the whole school year, it is normally physical. It is always the most painful
and the teachers can’t do a lot about it, they can give the bully detention, but they can’t
do much to stop it. Bullying is unwanted everywhere. It is very hard to stop the bullying
that happens between two people, but it is possible with talking to them and sorting
things out, however this won’t work 100% of the time. Bullying overall is really bad and
should be stopped.
“http://www.citydata.com/forum/education/2015190bullyingworsemiddlehighschool
2.html ”
“In HS though it can get more dangerous with threats and fights off campus.
Read more:
http://www.citydata.com/forum/education/2015190bullyingworsemiddlehighschoolkin
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Chapter 2: What Causes Bullying?
Why do people bully anyways? They don’t mean to. (Sometimes) Bullying is
caused by lots of things you sometimes can’t really control, it is usually personal issues
that they are dealing with.
The first thing that causes bullying is actually the most common one: Personal
Issues.
Bullies have lots of ways to take out their anger on kids, the most common one is
physical, the reason for this is they are probably having family issues at home and they
are the ones getting bullied at home, by anyone, like their boss, their parents or even
siblings! Bullies don’t care how others feel, they just want to do it and get what they
want.
The other common one is wanting to win, wanting to get it all, they sometimes
lose at something and the bully is not happy about it, the bully usually seeks the kid
who wins the game or whatever, and bullies them. The bully doesn’t care how the
other kid feels, he is just happy that he got it over with and knows that now he is the
big and stronger one. This action is sometimes repeated and might get really serious if
it gets physical. This is the 2nd type of what causes bullying.
The last one is actually the normalest of them all! The just wanting to bully kind
of feeling, now this feeling/cause has the most normal cause. There is this feeling
inside of bullies that just want to be mean to other kids! This is really really bad. No
one ever should feel this way and there should be no cause to it! This is the worst kind
of cause because it is the bully's fault, at least the other ones have to do something
with the victim like the one above, the one that lost something like a game or and
likes to beat up other kids to get want they want and feel like they won. This cause of
bully is really bad and has to be stopped!!!!
bullying.
Chapter 3: Types Of Bullying
here are 3 main types of bullying, Cyber Bullying, Physical bullying
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and Verbal bullying, these are the main types because they either hurt us the
most, or it is used most. Bullying is really bad and no one should ever be
bullied… ever! Cyberbullying
The first type of bullying is Cyberbullying, this
is not really new, it has been going on since the social media websites are
getting more popular, people use it more to cyberbully and it is getting worse as
we are speaking now. Now let’s get to the point, cyberbullying is bullying, but not
exactly facetoface, it is through email, instagram chatting and most common is
facebook, they send really mean messages to kids that are getting bullied and
call them ugly and say that if they died, no one would care and that they would
be happy. Sometimes girls send inappropriate photos to their boyfriends and if
they break up, the boyfriend sends the photos to the internet, and the girl either
kills herself or she gets depressed.(Not all the time true) Cyberbullying is really
easy to do, because you can act like whoever you want to be. Kids who are
scared to bully in real life, bully on the internet. Hundreds of cyberbully reports
have been heard every day. This has to be stopped!
Verbal Bullying
The second type of bullying is verbal bullying, this hurts a lot too, it contains
people saying extremely mean words to other kids. The bully doesn’t physically hurt
kids, the bully hurts the kid with words. The words they say make the victim feel really
bad and hurt inside. This is usually with girls and less with boys, although there are still
boys out there that use bad language to make other kids feel bad. This type of bullying
doesn’t have that much detail to it, but all I can say it, it is AS bad as the other types of
bullying, verbal bullying happens more than any type of bullying because it has words,
not actions.
Physical Bullying
Now, our last but not least type of bullying is physical bullying, this type of bullying
includes hitting, kicking, pushing, punching, etc. This is extremely painful looking to the
naked eye, people seeing it basically. it does not feel good when you are the one being
physically bullied, now this may be the worst one because you feel pain in your skin,
your body, not the ones like above, this feeling is worse, you are actually getting hurt.
Bullying is really bad and especially physical.
Now all of these are obviously really bad types of bullying, and it should never be
done.. I personally think that bullying is something we all can stop and do something
about it, remember, if you are feeling like someone is bullying you… Talk to someone
you know right away, it may save your life!
Chapter 4: How You Can Stop Bullying
How can people stop bullying? Well it isn’t going to be easy, but it is possible and you
can try to do it too, I am going to show you 3 ways to stop bullying, here are some ways that are
really easy. 1st step is to talk to them, make sure that they are okay! 2nd step is to tell
someone, and the third step is to talk to the bystanders.
Talk to them! They are probably going through hard times and need some talking to. Go
up to them and ask them what’s up? Say some words like “Why are you bullying that kid?” or
“What you are doing is not nice, please stop bullying that kid!” They might not care what you say
but at least they know that they are being mean to the other kids.
Are you a spectator of someone being bullied? Please, speak up and let the bully know
that nobody thinks that it’s funny. Even if you see people laughing it's probably because they are
scared of being bullied and just go with it. But come on! You can do it, don’t be scared! You can
stand up to them. It is never
a bad thing to stand up to
bullies. I know it can be scary
but you can do it. Bullies are
scary, I admit it, but someone
has to do something about it!
Or bullying is going to keep
going and not going to stop.
Bystanders are the ones that
help bullying stop, and help
out with family issues.
My last way of how you can stop bullying is to tell a teacher, that always helps no matter
what, because teachers have to do something about it, they can’t stand there looking at the
bully and ignore it. Make sure the adult is trusted and that you know that they can do something
about it because if it is a stranger, logically they can't do anything to help you. Make sure it’s
someone from school or parent, guardian etc. Grownups can always help you, they are there to
stop the bully and make sure there is no more fighting, of course, not always they can help you,
but it’s worth a shot and it’s better than nothing.
Now, think about all of this.. How can you stop bullying? This helps with a lot of
information and ways that you can stop bullying? Now I don’t want to leave you hanging, but
think about all of this? Do you think this might help you with your bullying problem?
➸Chapter 5: Suicide↫
Did you know that bullying sometimes causes suicide? It causes suicide Because of how
it makes people feel, and that hey don’t think they should live anymore because no one should
like them, this is 99% of time caused by Cyberbullying, because through texts people can tell
you anything, but it can be caused by a lot of more types of bullying.
This is an example of why Cyberbullying can cause suicide; There was a girl named
Amanda Todd, and she had cyber bullied, harassed and much more by this 35 yearold man,
(which has now been arrested) and this man told Amanda Todd online to show her private area
to him, and Amanda Todd was in a situation where she I guess had to do this, so she did. This
man put his profile picture as Amanda’s chest area and when she saw this she got cyberbullied
by a bunch of people and she drank bleach, cut herself and much more. After a couple of
months, she killed herself. People are still talking about her sad sad story.
Suicide happens every 40 seconds, and this is really bad because we are losing a lot
people… Suicide normally happens with bullying, but it depends on what kind of bullying and
the person that’s being bullied. For example, a person that’s being bullied might not be that
strong… and have no self trust. The other kid might be strong and take on anything that comes
in its way.
A lot of people that bully don’t care that the victim committed suicide, but most of them
feel extremely guilty for doing what they did.
Now, suicide is not that good of a thing to talk about, but people have to know that this is
going on so they are aware and they can do something about it. We can’t let people die every
40 seconds, even though it doesn’t include bullying. Suicide makes people really uncomfortable
and I
would understand why it makes people uncomfortable, maybe because 90% of people
that commit suicide are teens, and suicide includes death.
Suicide is the third leading cause of death among young
“
people, resulting in about 4,400 deaths per year, according to the CDC. For
every suicide among young people, there are at least 100 suicide attempts. Over
14 percent of high school students have considered suicide, and almost 7
percent have attempted it.”
http://www.bullyingstatistics.org/content/bullyingandsuicide.html
● http://www.bullyingstatistics.org/content/bullying-and-suicide.html
A lot of kids think about committing suicide when they are bullied. Some of the people who get
bullied kill themselves, this does include cyberbullying and much more. Now we have to stand
up to bullies, of course we can’t stand up to all of them, but we can at least talk to them saying
that a lot of kids are killing themselves because of this. That should really make them think
about the fact that this is causing death.
Why is all of this happening, how can we all stop this? This is such an important subject
and we all have to think about all of this and make sure it stops. No more bullying. For anyone.
Thanks so much for reading my short little book, and I hope you enjoyed it.
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Hi there! My name is Ipek, I am 12 years of age, I decided to write about the subject of bullying
particularly, because I have been cyber bullied and verbally bullied a lot. I wanted to take a
stand
for all the people that were being bullied. I wanted to write more information about bullying
for people that might not really know about it that much. Anyways, let’s get to the point, (more
about
me!) I’m kidding.. Not really. I was born in the Mediterranean island and I went to an
English school. After a few years my family moved to California, and I started my education here
a few years ago. I am
at a really cool school, (hey! That rhymed!!) and I only have 1 (next year)
year left until I go into middle school! Thank you so much for reading this book, I hope you
enjoyed it!