On page two, Lauri Kubuitsile writes, “Inside (lunch box) was left-over paleche and spinach from the night before. Her stomach growled and she began eating right away, not noticing that the children were gathering around her.” A girl with long braids said, “Look at what she eats”. Children stood with their expensive lunches in hand and laughed. Then,”Suddenly a boy rushed forward, and grabbed her tumbler (lunch box) and ran away with it…throwing the paleche and spinach on the green lawn along the way… when he ran past Sylvia, he said,”Go home Poor Girl.” There are two types of bullying in this example. There is name calling and physical bullying. As the children shout,”Go home Poor Girl” this is classified as name calling. While it is not physically hurting, it hurts the ego. When the boy “rushed forward, and grabbed her tumbler” this is an example of physical bullying because it has physically effected her. She no longer has food to eat while she is very hungry. So hurt by the words of her classmates and in fear of a similar activities happening again, she skipped every day of school for the remainder of the school year. Still, every morning her Grandma would “drop her at the end of the road and pick her up at the same place”. She would rather sit and hide all day than risk being humiliated by others. Because of the actions of the students at “The Rich People School”, Sylvia’s education is directly effected. This response happens much too often even today and it is yet another reason to draw awareness of this
On page two, Lauri Kubuitsile writes, “Inside (lunch box) was left-over paleche and spinach from the night before. Her stomach growled and she began eating right away, not noticing that the children were gathering around her.” A girl with long braids said, “Look at what she eats”. Children stood with their expensive lunches in hand and laughed. Then,”Suddenly a boy rushed forward, and grabbed her tumbler (lunch box) and ran away with it…throwing the paleche and spinach on the green lawn along the way… when he ran past Sylvia, he said,”Go home Poor Girl.” There are two types of bullying in this example. There is name calling and physical bullying. As the children shout,”Go home Poor Girl” this is classified as name calling. While it is not physically hurting, it hurts the ego. When the boy “rushed forward, and grabbed her tumbler” this is an example of physical bullying because it has physically effected her. She no longer has food to eat while she is very hungry. So hurt by the words of her classmates and in fear of a similar activities happening again, she skipped every day of school for the remainder of the school year. Still, every morning her Grandma would “drop her at the end of the road and pick her up at the same place”. She would rather sit and hide all day than risk being humiliated by others. Because of the actions of the students at “The Rich People School”, Sylvia’s education is directly effected. This response happens much too often even today and it is yet another reason to draw awareness of this