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Anti Bullying Satire

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Bullying, isn’t that a part of life?
I think kids nowadays are so thin skinned. What are they going to do in the real world? I mean everyone is on this anti bullying wagon when they need to be teaching their children that someone else’s opinion of them is irrelevant. I’m not saying that bullying is right but I am saying that it is a part of life.
Picture two toddlers fighting over a toy and the one toddler bites the other to get the toy. I’m pretty damn sure that the toddler wasn’t taught to bite so that’s not a learned behavior but more of a survival instinct and If that toddler then at the age of two realizes that if he or she bites then they win; they get the toy. Is that bullying? Hurting someone else to get what you want? I know I was …show more content…

I remember me and a friend would cut that class because it was embarrassing because everyone knew what room that was. It was for the slow learners. But that was the worst I did; cut class. I didn’t feel the need to start an anti-bullying campaign, or it didn’t make me suicidal, I just really taught me that there are mean people in this world I thank my parents for teaching me that people are always going to have an opinion and if it happens to be a negative one ignore it and keep your head up. According to Former Government advisor (Gill) states “Youngsters must learn to cope with teasing and name calling so they are able to handle awkward situations when they become adults” in the Daily mail by Nancy Clark. …show more content…

My oldest daughter got bullied for having braces and my middle daughter got bullied for having hairy arms in Middle School but because I was writing this paper I asked all my friends, my boyfriend, my three children and my niece did they ever get bullied and if so did it affect them in any negative way and they all said “yes, they got bullied and no it didn’t hurt them.” Bullying never stops, you think that when you grow up, you get a career, and you become free from bullying but bullying is everywhere. Many successful people were once bullied. Is it safe to say that bullying isn’t as bad as people are making it out to be? Sure, in severe cases there are terrible outcomes, but that can be blamed on the parents for coddling their children when they were young and not letting them experience life. I’ve been bullied while driving; another car was in a hurry and cut me off while driving with the middle finger waved so freely out the window with their hand on the horn. There is bullying in the work force; you can be your supervisors pet and every other employee dislikes you, or you can be the snitch of the work place, or the brown noser. Bullying doesn’t end. It doesn’t just magically disappear on your last day of school on your senior year and that why I say it’s a part of life and you have to learn deal with it. In the Herald Media 2012 (Tobler, Payson) states “Bullying prepares you

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