Persuasive Essay On Bullying And Suicide

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B.u.l.l.y
(Big,Ugly,Lonely, Loser, Yearning for attention)

Have you heard the saying “Sticks and Stones will break my bones but words will never hurt me” this saying is a lie, words hurt because they have the power to heal or hurt someone, but it’s your choice in which way you choose to use them. Bullying has gotten to kids, this is making them do crazy to themselves and this has to stop. Bullies should be criminally responsible for their actions because they make kids miss school which affect their learning, they get physical with their victims, and they even make kids commit suicide.
To begin with, bullies make 160,000 kids miss schools every day because the victim is afraid to be made fun of in public.In fact, “Psychologist warns against
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According to are bullies criminals it states that, “Bullying ruins kids’ lives. Bullies should be punished as severely as possible... many people applaud this, believing the teens deserve to be severely punished or even jailed.This isn’t the first time a victim has been bullied and kills herself these victims think it is the easiest way out of there problems to kill themselves, but it is not the only way because they have life to live, earn amazing things, and love to give, also goals to beat so the must have to find another way to solve the problem. In other words, bullies make kid kill themselves but the victim must find another way to beat the problem because they’ve got life to live.From this we can infer that, across the line but that is not the only way to stop bullies from teasing you or physically abusing you instead, We should ask your parents for advice or help stop this chaos for making our kids take away their lives. In summary, the evidence clearly suggests that there are many ways to help our children from being bullied at school we could talk to the school official, authorities, or trusted

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