Bullying: First Impressions

In issues we have taken the time to discuss a topic that is present in the lives of every student and even the teacher our class, bullying. This is high school, and where there is a large amount of people there will always be some sort of bullying. However, I am extremely proud to say that for all of the kids at my high school, there is very little bullying going on. The bullying that we are talking about it mostly bullying kids because the kids think that they are gay, and I am proud to say that this high school is extremely open and accepting compared to most. But while we are very, very, accepting of everybody here, there is of course still bullying. I see it playfully in the halls, but it is there nonetheless and I think that as a body of people we need to be a lot more careful with our words. While their is not much bullying, like old fashioned pushing into lockers or swirlies, I've seen a lot of racism and shoving around pushed under the rug. I just hope that it never escalates to anything that I have seen from any of the movies that we have watched. The one movie, Bully, a documentary which focused on a boy being absolutely tormented everyday, had an enormous impact on me and everybody else who watched it. It is hard to watch that and it is hard to believe that their are people who are that bad in the world but the one thing I took away from the movie is this: feel bad for the bullies. Whatever they are doing is because of something they have experienced, something wrong in their life, and that is the truth.