No bullying allowed!!

I was introduced to this video in class. "Bully" you can rent the movie and also purchase it online. Here's the link -->http://www.thebullyproject.com/, a little more about this movie it's a documentary and reality of teens that face challenges at school and In their community. Simply because they are differ and are bullied. The victims were tyler who sadly committed suicde after a long battle of bullies harassing him and attacking him. Then there's Kelby who is gay and her community doesn't accept her and she is the center of humor. Then theres Alex who gets pushed around and down talked. All this victims at points communicate with their parents and the concerned parents aware the school and sadly no one does nothing. That's why the movie was made to aware the world that it's a problem and it's going on. The link above also is the main site to all the organizations who support to speak up against bullying. They are supported and support other bullying campaigns. This movie was we opener I have a son and it worries me becuase society has certain expectations of how people should be and look like. But it's not a relaity and these bullies make It known. I don't want my son to face these challenges if he doesn't for this "criteria". These poor parents couldn't help their kids and worries me that I won't either. I just honk the government should step in and make an effort and enforce regiulations. This is endangering kids life's at school making them not feel safe. I just think the way things are going my son isn't safe.   Hers some stats found on dosomething.org

11 Facts About Bullying

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1. Over 3.2 million students are victims of bullying each year.


2. 1 in 4 teachers see nothing wrong with bullying and will only intervene 4 percent of the time.


3. Approximately 160,000 teens skip school every day because of bullying.


4. 1 in 7 students in grades K-12 is either a bully or a victim of bullying.


5. 56 percent of students have personally witnessed some type of bullying at school.


6. Over two-thirds of students believe that schools respond poorly to bullying, with a high percentage of students believing that adult help is infrequent and ineffective.


7. 71 percent of students report incidents of bullying as a problem at their school.


8. 90 percent of 4th through 8th graders report being victims of bullying.


9. 1 out 10 students drop out of school because of repeated bullying.


10. Harassment and bullying have been linked to 75 percent of school-shooting incidents.


11. Physical bullying increases in elementary school, peaks in middle school and declines in high school.  Verbal abuse, on the other hand, remains constant.