BULLYING
Bullying is never the way to solve anything for any reason! If you have ever witnessed bullying, then do something about it next time. Or at least try because I know it's hard to get up the guts to face a bully. Standing up might be easy for some people, but really hard for others! Just remember to try to stay nice and positive.J
Once there was a time when I witnessed bullying and didn't do anything about it. There were two girls, let's call them Student 1 and Student 2. The story began when these two girls were sitting in the cafeteria during lunch break. Student 1 would always pack her lunch and sometimes she disliked it. Whenever Student 1 wasn't pleased with her food, she would throw it in the bin and explained to Student 2 that she would tell her mom she ate it all. Do you see where I'm going with this? Student 1 and 2 normally sat together with a couple more friends and since Student 1 no longer had anything to eat, she was starving. So this was where the bullying came in. Student 1 just grabbed food that belonged to someone else. She sometimes asked, but if Student 2 said no, it wouldn't be a pretty scene. She went around telling people not to talk to Student 2 because she said that Student 2 was really mean. That was verbal bullying! But there was more. Student 1 elbowed Student 2 really hard and got some other people to do that too. There was the physical bullying! Sometimes if she sat close to Student 2, she would send her unkind notes over and over again. There was the non-verbal bullying. Last, if Student 1 knew that she couldn't win the fight, she went up to Student 2 and said I FORGIVE you. Not I'm sorry! I considered her a big bully.
Something I would have done differently to stand up for myself, since I was Student 2, would have been to actually tell her something. I should heve told her that nobody had the right to take the lunch of someone else away just because she disliked her own food. And physical bullying is not the way to settle anything! I would like to tell her all that, but what I actually did was hang around silently and tried to avoid her. After a while, it kept happening and I kind of got used to it. Now, when I look back on all this drama, I don't understand why I didn't say anything to her. I had the words, but they just didn't come out of my mouth! Why? I really don't have a clue...
I now have two goals for this year, so that the situation would never happen in ISKL! The goals are to never solve something with verbal or physical bullying. This is one goal because I already know that it does not solve a single thing! The other goal is to try to stand up for myself and others. Hopefully I won't have to that because I would prefer that there would be no bullying in the first place! I hope I can contribute to making ISKL a better place!
Thanks for reading my blog! Don't be a bully and stay positive.
~ NatalieJ
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