Schools are not the safe havens they use to be; they have turned into a miniature prison where kids are trapped with their tormenters. Bullying is a rather common problem for kids in traditional schools as “Between 1 in 4 and 1 in 3 U.S. students say they have been bullied at school. Many fewer have been cyberbullied.” (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, 2014) and that’s not a problem that’s …show more content…
Psychologists agree that bullying can have negative effects and can lead to isolation and in extreme cases even suicide. Home schooled students don’t get bullied simply because there are no kids to bully them at home. Some would argue that kids need to be roughed up in school so that they can deal with the stresses of real life and that home schooled kids are not socialized correctly. First, public schools do toughen kids up, but a little too much as it can lead to amounts of stress that can become very unhealthy both mentally and physically and do harm to the child. Second, kids have had natural amounts of stress outside of school since the beginning of man and have turned out fine; it’s the unnatural amount received at traditional schools that can break them. This is backed up as new studies have revealed “the negative effects of bullying on the physical health, mental health, and overall wellbeing of children” (Vaillancourt, 2015). Psychologists agree that bullying can