Persuasive Essay On Verbal Bullying

On Wednesday, October 19th 2016, after another school day filled with taunts and torments, Bethany Thompson went home and took her own life. Bethany Thompson was an 11 year old brain cancer survivor that was diagnosed with cancer at the young age of 3. The same year she was diagnosed, Bethany went through surgery and radiation treatments to remove the tumor from her brain. As a result of all her treatments, Bethany’s face had deformed, painting her the perfect target for schoolyard bullies. On the bus ride home, Bethany told her best friend that when she arrived home, she would kill herself. By the time her best friend alerted an adult, it was too late. Bethany had found a gun, walked to the back porch where she then proceeded to shoot herself

Verbal bullying includes but is not limited to teasing, name-calling, inappropriate sexual comments, taunting, and/or threatening to cause some form of bodily harm. Bethany was a victim of verbal bullying, the bullies called her names and made fun of her face, which was already a sensitive subject for the young girl. When you pick on someone’s flaws that they are already insecure about, you are just adding nails into their already self-closed coffin. Words cut deep and they stay with you

Stealing, shoving, hitting, fighting, and destroying property all are types of physical bullying. Physical bullying is rarely the first form of bullying that a victim will experience, it’ll probably start off as the forms listed above and escalate from there. Physical bullying is the most telling type of bullying. If your child comes home with scratches, scrapes and/or bruises that they did not leave the house with that morning, he or she is most likely being bullied. That 's not to say that they couldn’t have fallen on the playground or something like that but if it 's happening everyday, you need to start asking