Youth Violence And Bullying Victims

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The date was December 18th, 2016. He walks in and throws his things on the table, frustrated and depressed with how his life is going. He’s stressed by the amount of schoolwork he has to do for his classes, he’s disappointing his parents by failing said classes, and he’s being made fun of at school for being an idiot. He ignored it at first, but slowly and surely it got to him. With his life falling down around him and not thinking he’ll amount to anything due to the amount of failure he’s had in the year, the bullies just reinforced the fact that he was stupid, worthless, and disgraceful to the human race for even being alive. He walked into the kitchen where his friend was making some lunch.
“You okay Jason?” asked Harlan
“I’m fine,” Jason
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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

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