Bullying Speech

Bullying is an issue across our nation. You might not know it, but the person sitting next to you could be getting bullied. They might not seem like they are hurting, but inside they could be. Bullying doesn’t have to be pushing someone around, shoving them into lockers, or even punching them. Bullying can be on the internet, after school on your walk home, on the bus, maybe even in your own household. Anybody that intentionally tries to hurt your feelings, is bullying you. It doesn’t matter if you just stare at them as they walk by or laugh at something they say in class, if it hurts their feelings, then you are bullying them. You might think that there are no bullies in your grade, or even in the school, but there is. There is atleast someone …show more content…
It’s not always something physical that bullies someone, it could be something emotion. Like the story about Eve Shalen. She’s been bullied since second grade by the same group of girls. Eve would be talking in class and she would hear muffled giggles and when she turned around the girls would roll their eyes. If she was out at recess and went up to a group of people they would all fall silent and sometimes she would even catch the end of someone’s joke against her. One day in eighth grade while Eve was watching a basketball game, one of the popular girls came up to Eve to show her something. They both walked to a group of three to four other girls and started reading this girl 's diary and laughing at what it was saying. They all started laughing, and in the middle of that moment Eve realized that it was her that was the bully now, but she didn’t care because she was accepted for once and in that moment, that’s all that mattered. Eve said “Often being accepted by others is more satisfying than being accepted by oneself, even though the satisfaction does not last”. That statement is so true, especially after being bullied for 6 years straight. The satisfaction of being accepted in that moment, especially by the popular girls, took over her body and she didn’t care what she was doing, she was accepted. Eve knew what it felt like to be bullied like that, she knew how the …show more content…
Oyster River definitely doesn’t have bad bullying 's like in the movie Bully, but I can tell you that it still has bullying. No school is completely free of it. No matter how fancy the school district is, or if it’s a private school or not, there’s still going to be bullying. Some schools are just worse than others. I couldn’t tell you much about what I’ve seen at the Oyster River schools. I’ve never been bullied and I’ve never seen someone getting bullied. Except for this one girl in 5th grade who had some mental issue I’m guessing that would physically beat this one girl around teachers, principals, anyone. The police were involved, she tried to run away and hide, she was found, and then suspended. Nothing like that has even come close to happening after she left. So, overall my experience in the Oyster River schools have been