Stereotypes And Accidents: A Personal Narrative

A couple years ago, there was a girl at my school that nobody liked, and I am going to call her Katie in my story. She was ostracized by all of my peers, and she was not included in conversations, events outside of school, or at lunch tables. One day, during school, we were sitting in the classroom at indoor recess. A group of my friends were huddled together, whispering and giggling. I listened in on the conversation to find that they were talking about Katie. It turns out my friends were laughing because she was singing and dancing around the classroom. They turned to Katie, asking her to sing some more. Katie did, which only prompted more giggles and whispers. The conversation turned to the worst, as my friends started saying how ugly Katie was and how they could not wait to graduate and hopefully go to a different school than her. They also deemed her a liar, saying that the stories about her parents’ terrible divorce were not true, even though there was no proof. I felt awful, and I couldn’t stand it. Katie was being picked on for absolutely no reason. But I stayed quiet, for the fear of …show more content…
By not standing up for Katie during that school day, she faced harmful words and exclusions throughout the rest of her time at my grade school. Eventually, Katie caught on to what people were saying about her, and was very hurt. Katie would have never had to experience the pain of being harassed if I would have just stood up to her from the start. I learned from my experience with Katie that being silent, and living by silence at all times is golden, is not always a good thing. I learned that eradicating harassment from the beginning could prevent further harm from happening. In the future, my knowledge of stopping the problem could prevent a whole other person from feeling bullied or disliked, all because I stood up for them in front of my