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The Elementary Days In my old elementary school, Shipley’s Choice, I used to be bullied. Though people still try to push me around, I learned not to pay my mind to them. Shipley’s Choice Elementary school is considered to be on the higher end of middle-class public schools, with all its snotty brats, it felt like Hell. This situation began around second to fourth grade. There was a lot of hatred towards me because I was and kind of still am, a weird person. I had long hair and acted like a weird, modern-day 2010s kid. I was essentially before my time. However, people used to pick on me, call me horrid names, and even hit me! I was depressed, hiding behind a fake smile. Some of my former bullies are now some of my closer friends. But, I was like an outstretched rubber band about to snap. Luckily I never did. I had expected the school to help me, but I was the only one in a major amount of trouble, as I verbally retaliated. I knew the school was not going to help me, when someone, let us call him Max, beat on me five different times was never suspended, let alone expelled. But, Max became a great friend later on, ironically enough. I toughed it out, trying to make friends and non-physical war. Soon, I became a part of a reliable group of friends, who may not like me the …show more content…
The best memories that still live on, are the only two. My first best memory is when I learned I seem to have a talent in math. As it seems, I am a savant in memorizing formula related facts and reapplying them to other problems. My second and last good memory of Elementary school was the friends I made. We had a group of about six. It consisted of, let us call them two Jacksons, a Max, a Martha, an Ashton, and I. One of the Jacksons grew away from us, the other becoming an extremely close friend, Max had to move away, I reunited with Martha and Ashton this year, and I have become a much better friend to
Whoever may been a victim of bullying or are the bullies was once a kid and they believed in something with all their heart, maybe it was that they didn’t like how smart you are, your clothes, or how you talk. It’s how they feel towards you to make them not like you. And they use to have friends, friends they can hang out with, talk to and just be these themselves with, but when they started being bullied for being different they’re friends not hanging out with, talking to them and don’t want to be friends with them because they’re afraid to get bullied just like just like that person. And it’s hard for people like that to survival if they’re just getting picked on by students or adults. You think “it’s just a phase, they’ll come out of it” or “they just need to talk to people to get them to notice them”, but it’s not that it’s they don’t feel like they fit in with everyone because everyone is very different form them and when they try to talk to people they
The funny thing is the harder I try, I cannot seem to remember my “friends” name. She moved within the first year of my being there and besides I have a horrible memory. We played with each other over the summer and went to school in the fall. Within the first week one of the “popular” girls told me that if I continued to be friends with this girl, I could not be in the crowd because they did not like this girl. I selected friendship over popularity and this affected my self esteem for the rest of my school years. The popular people begin avoiding me and out and out calling me names. They would taunt me telling me how ugly I was, how my face was filled with pimples, how I was smelly, how I looked like a giraffe, and so on.
I still remember my second grade classroom. Not perfectly, but just enough that I can tell you about it. There was something that happened that was horrible, but lucky we figured it out before the real thing hit. You're about to find out what happened.
The first school I attended in 6th grade was McIntyre. At McIntyre I was in the honor Society, and I received the principal academic achievement award. I remember going to school with my closest friends I did ballet with. Kenrietta, Alaya, and Jameshia were some of my closest friends. Til this day we are still really good friends. I
Bullying has been around for decades and yet it is still a reoccurring problem, and it is only getting worse. The National Center for Educational Statistics, in 2009, said nearly 1 in 3 students between the ages of 12 and 18 reported being bullied in school. Eight years earlier, only 14 percent of that population said they had experienced bullying(Ollove,2014). There are two types of bullying the direct form and indirect form, in the direct form the victim receives physical harm example kicking pushing shoving. In the indirect form the victim receives emotional or mental harm by name-calling, rejection, gossip, threats, or insults(Green,2007). It doesn’t matter which way the victim was bullied it still causes
Bullying is a major issue in schools and is a factor in fitting in. Almost all students in high school either have been bullied or have bullied someone. Bullying can be split into two major parts: psychological and physical. While both are very harmful, many debates have been had as to which is worse. I am of the opinion that psychological is worse, because it can really push somebody over the edge. When people constantly harass you or call you names it starts to take a toll on your confidence and self-esteem, and as is said in the poem “To This Day”, it “Seems like every school has...
“How easy it would be if I could glide through these halls without even making a ripple. Slide through the days, months, years of school and emerge safe and unscarred on the other side,” is what Kerbel says her feelings are about going to school. (Kerbel, 2011, p.120) Many students, like Kerbel, want to become invisible due to bullying because they feel like not being seen or heard will solve their problems. In a recent survey, about 160,000 students in the United States will not go to school because they are scared of the bullying that will happen. Bullying has gone from toilet swirling to life threatening events happening all over the world. Almost three million students worldwide, according to statistics done in 2010, are victims of bullying and two million students are the bully. Even though bullying is a part of growing up, cyberbullying and violent bullying happening in school today has children taking matters into their own hands.
Similar to Zimmer, I used to hide, and sit all the way in the back. In spite of hiding, everyone knew who I was, a lonely girl who had failed herself and her parents. The girl who could have done well in grade school, if she was given a chance. Oh, how I wish this was a horrifying nightmare, however this is my reality. Bullying is a major problem in our society that occurs beyond grade school. Although due to bullying, my grade school and middle school experience was not positive, I truly learned something from it. I learned to face the problems instead of running away from them like a coward. Despite being an adult, I still face bullies at work in form of co-workers, patients, and managers. I’m taking little steps day by day to learn how to solve problems rather creating new
I was so self-conscious and honestly never thought much of myself; all I knew were the negatives. But I was always nice to everyone though, that was an important thing to me. I believed that if I was nice eventually they would stop with the bullying; this is something I would always say to myself to keep my hopes up. I was surprised though when I began high school; it felt as if everyone had totally forgot about how they would pick on me, it took all this for me to finally realize that I shouldn’t have let that happen to me. It was Friday, December 21, 2012 that I was lying in my room going through my thoughts that I finally asked myself why I don’t feel confident. It was the day I realized that I’m gorgeous, intelligent, and wise and that I shouldn’t think any less and if that anybody had anything to say otherwise I wouldn’t care. It took me all those years of bullying to finally feel genuinely happy, and secure with who I am now and to finally rip that mask off and embrace me. I thank my bullies actually because without them Chisom Stella Okafor wouldn’t be like
Where teachers teaching methods were kind of silly, making us copy whatever they wrote on the chalkboard and rewrite it over and over. Our homework was pretty much the same deal, after all it was only elementary school. Lunch at our school was an adventure, there was a river behind our school so we would go out there and look for fruit trees. We would eat mangos or whatever fruit we could find and some boys will even go swimming. So arriving to a place that had everything that I needed at my fingertips and lunch served in an air conditioned room; not understanding anyone or anything made it a very terrifying experience in many
In my childhood I was transferred to a different school. It was a different environment and social views. I was a victim of bullying. I was first Social bullied when recess time began I would be excluded because the way I looked with long black hair with thick black eyebrows with light up sketchers shoes.
Take a minute, close your eyes and imagine this scenario in your head. You are a sixth grader sitting at your desk, in math class. Your stomach is growling, because you know the bell is about to ring for 5th period, and your mom packed your favorite lunch. The bell rings and you jump out of your seat to rush to the cafeteria, but wait…hold on a minute. You then realize, in the hallway is a group of students who have been making fun of you all year. Teasing you because of the shoes you wear-that are not name brand, bumping into you on purpose so that you drop all of your books in the middle of the hallway, and calling you a lame and a teachers pet because you always turn in your assignments on time and the teacher constantly gives you compliments
Remaining a constant victim to bullying for 11 years significantly affected how I viewed myself and others around me. To most I wasn’t worth giving more than a single glance. I had a gap between my two front teeth, which was a primary target of ridicule. My clothes were “nice”, but they weren’t by the designer label everyone else was wearing. Not only did I dress and look ugly, I was also a black girl- a lighter skinned
Life goes on day after day and the years go by with our memories capturing the beautiful moments that happen to us everyday. In fact, nothing feels more nostalgic like the days of our childhood innocence. Childhood memories are those beautiful moments that can never be forgotten. Missing the days of children gathering, playing, and even fighting. My friends and I were going everyday to the grocery store without our families knowing and we buy lighters to light the fireworks that our friend stole from his old brother. We also were big fans of football sport so we played in the street near our houses. I remember our neighbor, Hassan; he was an old man who was very annoyed of us and our noises. We once
I remember my fourth grade year as if it were yesterday. My homeroom teacher, Mr.