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Seventy percent of students report that bullying is a problem in their school. One in every ten middle school students drop out or change schools (www.findapsychologist.org/category/healthcare-topics-issues/bullying/). Among drop outs, there is death. Suicide is the third leading cause of death among young people. About 4,400 teens a year commit suicide. For every suicide among young people, there are at least 100 suicide attempts. That is 440,000 suicide attempts a year. At least half of reported suicides are linked to bullying. There for, 220,000 suicide attempts have been the cause of bullying. Over 14% of high school students have considered suicide and almost seven percent, have attempted. Bullying victims are two to nine times more likely to consider suicide than non-victims. Girls from the ages ten to fourteen are at a higher risk of suicide. Nearly 30% of students are either bullies or victims of bullying. 160,000 kids stay home from school everyday for fear of being bullied (www.bullyingstatistics.org). Those are just few of many statistics Instead of bullying kids, why not sit down and do the math so you can figure out how much damage words and fists can do to a person and families.

There are three links to bullying – being the victim, the bystander or the bully. Being the conductor of bullying usually has a back story as to why the actions are being done. Is it learned or is it taught? How does a bystander fit into the cycle? For a lot of kids, being bullied does not hurt nearly as much when one thinks about the people who just watched when they could have helped.

There are many ways a person can be a victim or a bully. Cyberbullying is the use of electronic communication to bully a person, by sending message...

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...d by the book Bullying Under Attack. It has no specific author because the stories in it, are written by hundreds of teens. Telling their story of being either a bully, a victim or a bystander. They tell about how they regret standing by and watching or harming other people physically and emotionally. The book itself just proves, that being a bully is a choice. If you were born a bully you could not change that. Bullies change every day because they finally see that what they are doing is wrong and has to stop. The fact that kids came out and told their stories for other people to learn from, is amazing. It takes a lot of courage to be able to do that along with a lot of time, patience and resurfaced emotions. Not only are you playing with peoples emotions, you're mocking people who are actually born a certain way. Stop what your doing wrong and go do what is right.