Semester 8 Essay- Prompt #36: Elementary and secondary around the country are beginning to actively address the problem of bullies. In your own opinion, is bullying an issue that should be addressed by schools or left to parents? Use specific reasons and examples to support your position?

         Everyday around the nation millions of children wake up everyday to get ready for school, once they have arrived at school they could have either a very fun day or a very miserable day filled with different children laughing or making fun of them. This is only the aspects of bullying for children. Now and days many children are becoming victims of bullying and schools are not doing any thing about the bullying until the child is beaten down. Something that was once a passage to becoming a kid is now a killer amongst many children all around the world because a new way is being used to the bully advantages which is the Internet that is connected to everyone around the world.

         I think that bullying should be dealt with both the school and the parent because it is both the school and parents responsibility to make sure the child does not physically, verbally or cyber bully another person. With different types of bullying becoming better known there should be a major crack down with all children. Bullying could easily lead to some Childs death because they suffer being humiliate at school and do not know how to share it with their parents. In a survey down by the  family first aid  “students in grades 6 to 10, 13 percent reported bullying others, 11 percent reported being the target of school bullies, and another 6 percent said they bullied others and were bullied themselves.” The school should punish the child for picking on bullying other children because they put pressure on the other children for being perfect which no one is perfect and Elementary and younger kids do not know that yet so they try to fit in which could sometimes cause death. And it could also cause the child being afraid to go to school and anxious to whenever they go to school which has them loosing concentration in school ,and also has them not paying attention in school and could lead to bad grades.

      For example if their was child that was overweight that attend a normal seize school of about nine hundred students in the student body. That child could get pick on because that child is overweight and society sees people that are overweight as monsters and not normal people. The person that is doing the bullying is sometimes the person that has been the victim in a bullying incident. This could cause them to bully the person that is overweight and new to the school.  Both the school and parents should work together to make sure the child does not bully any one else. I think both sides should work together because the children spend a lot of time at the school and at home so they are able to pick up any thing negatively at both places. If the child knows that treating people in an evil way is bad they would not do the bullying.