Major Social Iniquity: Bullying In School

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Another major social iniquity is bullying. A certain type of bullying in school is called pack bullying. This kind of bullying includes several different people against another. It can take place anywhere in school, and cyberspace.On average, 160,000 won’t go to school everyday because of bullying says DoSomething.org. Bullying also force teenagers to drop-out of school. out of every ten adolescents, one will be a dropout caused by bullying.75% of school shootings are fueled on the fire of bullying. Most of the time the target of the harassment will be the shooter. Examples of such people include, Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold, Nathan Ferris, Edmar Aparecido Freitas, Brian Head, Seung-Hui Cho, Wellington Menezes Oliveira, and Jeff Wiese. These

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