Bullying

        Bullying is an issue most teens face everyday. Those who are bullied suffer from as little as a lowered self-esteem to doubting their own lives. For me, bullying is a serious issue and it needs to stop, starting with us. Bullying is most common when someone is of a different race or has a lower class. In terms of these two social injustices, people are treated unfairly and are just left alone with no help whatsoever. From our perspective, being bullied might seem not that too big of a deal. This is only easy to say because we are not the victims of this horrible act of putting someone to shame. We might think that the only thing the victim has to do is to tell their parents or guardians about their situation, but, in most cases they can't.
     The effects of bullying isn't just shown in the psychological being of the victim, almost everything about their lives gets turned around when they are bullied. This affects the person's physical, mental, and emotional welfare as well. An estimated 160,000 students miss school everyday because of their fear of being bullied by other students. In the most severe cases, bullying can drive someone off the edge and cause them to commit suicide. In North America, as much as half of the suicides done by people aged 10-24 is because of bullying. Thus, most people indirectly cause the death of another person without even knowing it. And so with that said let's all take a step against bullying and give other people a chance to live their lives to the fullest.

By: Vincent Aparato