Bullying In America

Many can say that there is so much going on in the world today. One of the biggest factors that are affecting this world today is the way society treats itself and others. People such as young children and teenagers are being bullied. Very much of that has to do with society.

Introduction:

Bullying has become such an important factor in todays world because of how much its been happening. Bullying can cause so much stress and can leave anyone feeling hurt, angry, frightened, alone, and even depressed.

Imagine dropping your child off at school and he or she leaves the house in a great mood and then you get a call saying your son or daughter is being bullied. Imagine only if that was your child being picked on and wanting to go home to harm

Regardless of where it is happening it should not be happening at all anywhere around the world. Studies have shown that thirteen percent of children, ages two through seventeen, experienced physical bullying and thirty-six percent experienced teasing or emotional bullying in schools over the past year (Finkelhor D).

Problem Section: According to (stopbullying.gov) when adults do not respond to bullying behavior they send out a message that it is okay for them to bully other kids and continue to do so. Bullying happens to people for numerous amount of reasons. Parents and teachers need to pay more attention to their children and send out that message that it is not okay for children to bully each other. It is a proven fact that according to (childtrends) on October 3, 2013 an average almost 160,000 children stay home and miss school because of being scared of repeatedly getting bullied. Not only is that the problem but from missing school so much children lose concentration and fall so far behind in their school work. Even though children are bullied every day some of them go to school in the morning fearing that they will run into the bully picking on them. That is no way to receive a great

The whole village ended up throwing rocks and stones at a whole family who were stoned to death. Now you have the whole village who claimed to be friends with these people. Young people and older people throwing rocks and stones at people that where part of their community people that they where friends with. Throwing things at people in general in part of bullying and parent are allowing their kids to think that it is okay to do what they are doing. According to (Eisenberg, Gower, McMorris , & Bucchianeri ,2015) young people who engage in bullying behaviors tend to have a higher levels of overall conduct