Bullying

Unfortunately, bullying is sort of a common thing, where for some it happens every day. The passing of a KHS freshmen, has brought more awareness to our school. Sadly, it took the suicide of a young girl for us to come together and talk about bullying and preventing suicide.

If you look around at all of the kids at Kennedy, and other schools, you probably wouldn’t be able to pick out the kids that are or have been bullied. Most of these victims just try and keep a smile on their face and try and act like everything is okay. When these kids are at home or anytime they are alone, I’m sure that they are depressed and may not even see the point of living on because they feel so unwanted. It’s very sad that people can hate on someone so much that they feel like they can’t live on. I don’t understand how you could do that to someone.

I believe that most of the bullying probably takes place on social media or online is some way, more so than in person. It’s much easier to mean behind the screen than when you’re standing in front of someone. Online you don’t get to see their reactions so it’s easier to keep saying things because no one is there to stop you. It is very easy for these bullies to “attack” their victims online in private, rather than in person when someone could see it and step in and make them stop. Online, the victim feels helpless and doesn’t know what to do.

I believe that there are a few ways that we can prevent bullying. I believe that if we all had the confidence to stand up for ourselves we could fight back and tell the bully to stop. If you don’t let the bully get you down, they will go away, they will go onto their next victim and leave you alone. Bullies get their power from bringing people down, so if you don’t let them bring you down, or don’t let them see you down, they will most likely go away. I know that it’s easier said than done to have self-confidence, but I know there are ways where we can work on this together. Coming together will create an army against bullies and we will be able to stop them because no one will feel victim because they don’t feel alone anymore.

Another way we could prevent bullying/suicide is to ensure that our student feel comfortable talking to someone. I know victims don’t like to talk about it, but if they don’t, their thoughts will wander and that’s when people start to feel like they are unwanted. If the students don’t feel comfortable with talking to their counselors, we need to find someone that they do feel comfortable talking to. If we could try and solve this problem, maybe we could have prevented things from happening.

It’s hard to see suicide coming. In some, you never see it coming, but in others you might be able to see them going downhill. AS a whole, I think we need to talk about ways we can help these people, because personally I don’t know what I would say to someone to get them to know that they are wanted and that they shouldn’t go through with suicide.

         
Most people don’t know how to deal with these types of things, so I think that is very important that we come together and try and figure some things out and come up with ideas on how to prevent these tragic things from happening.

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