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PSA HADIA MALIK BULLYING

Imagine your a transfer student from Pennsylvania and feel lost among the hustle of the everyday students attending. The last thing you expect is a shadow falling over you and you looking up to see a brutal face of a six foot tall eight grader, smirking at you. Then next thing you know is that your belongings are strewn across the sidewalk with everyone staring at you as you make your impression of the new kid. Every day, innocent kids have to go through the daily torture of bullies. Whether its physical harassment, or verbal abuse, students across the country have experienced these traumatic events. How would you feel if you had to go to school everyday, knowing what is going to happen, not having any friends to sit with or talk with? As the school year progresses on, bullying has become a serious issue. The traces of bullying can scar childhoods for life and a permanent mark in many lives. Bullying has become a severe issue due to the tragic consequence; low self esteem, attempts of ending him or hers life and the depression that can last a long life time. I believe that eliminating bullying will be a proactive step in constructing a more safe and secure as well as beneficial environment for all students.

As many as 160,000 kids stay from school because they fear of being bullied. One of the main effects that occur in the victims of bullying is the decrease of self confidence. When a bully robs you out of your self esteem, it affects everything in your life. Students’ grades go downward, and their participation declines and their grade suffers. Students with low self esteem often get frustrated easily which only makes the bully more encouraged to continue their torture. In the past years, it is the bullying and the low self self-reliance that leads to tragic events such as school shootings, or the attempts to end him or hers life. With no self self-belief victims will choose to be alone and not interact with their surrounding but keep to themselves. How would you like it if you couldn’t work in a group of people because you knew they would make fun of you and tease you? How would you feel everything about you felt destroyed all because of that one person who was a bully? These events can leave a child terrorized and disfigured until they are an adult. Why not end this suffering of thousands of kids right now?

97% of middle schoolers are bullied while online. 35% of kids have been threatened online. Nearly 1 in 5 has had it happen more than once. Now put yourself in some one else’s shoes. You are a loner; get bullied called named sent mean messages to everyday of your life. Saying that you’re not worth it and would be better off if dead. You would feel like you were on a tip of an ice berg right? Just one jump will end all the hurt and pain. That’s how victims feel. With every mean name or message that is sent, there are one step more closer into either attempting to end their own life or will continue to self inflict themselves as a refuge to their bullying. How would you feel if you had to go to school every day just to know that people would rather have you dead than living? Cyber bullying, physical and verbal harassment can often lead to tragic events for victims. For them it seems they have no choice and believe it is better without them and take their own life. 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. A study in Britain even identifies that half the number of suicides among young people is due to the cause of bullying. Each person is important to the world in his/her own different way. Without bullying no one would have to endure and suffer for the rest of their life. As William James once said, “ Believe life is worth living, and your belief will help create that fact” To portray those words in reality, bullying should be eradicated so the victims will have a chance to see what life is like when its actually worth living. Now, after reading this, picture this. You’re walking up the steps to the huge school, nervous because you’re the new kid and you don’t know what to expect. Kids bustle around everywhere, scurrying to their classes. A shadow falls over you and you look up to see a friendly face of a student that has a smile plastered across his face. He leads you to the principal room, and suddenly being the new kid isn’t so bad.