“You okay Jason?” asked Harlan
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According to nobullying.com, in a study done by Yale University in late 2016, “Bullied victims are 7 to 9 per cent more likely to consider suicide.” and they also had some more information about suicide statistics, such as some done in Britain. “Studies in Britain have found half of the suicides among youth related to bullying. According to a study by ABC News over 30,000 children stay home every day due to the fear of being bullied.” As you can see it’s not even just an annoyance, bullying is much more than that. Bullying can cause kids who have so much to live for, so much to do, yet they commit suicide because of this. But the thing is it’s not even just bullying, it’s youth violence in general, which makes the causes much more vast, which makes the effects that much more impactful since there are so much more of them. An abusive parent for example could make a child’s life terrible, so they wouldn’t even know what a true childhood is. A criminal could murder or rape a child or family member of the child, scarring or ending the child’s life. The point is that there are many different causes and effects to youth …show more content…
Well, fact of the matter is, it can’t be stopped, but it can be lessened. These people need to learn that the effects of what they’re doing is wrong. Most of them are blinded by their greed, ego, or bias so much that they have no idea or just flat out don’t care about the consequences of their actions. Sadly, only school assemblies just won’t cut it. I’d know too considering I’m a student. At least at my school, people rarely take anything away from the assemblies. Instead of assemblies, they need to have something that could involve the students, like maybe a fundraiser for a charity to raise awareness for bullying or a play. Something that the students could get involved with would be better than anything