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Informative Essay About Bullying

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Bullying is a type of behavior that hurts, humiliates or harms another person physically or emotionally. For instance, Take Josh. He was a 7th grade student in a small town where his dad lives still to this day he was a boy with short golden hair. In his first year of middle school, kids taunted him and spit on him in the hallways. It didn’t occur to him to tell his parents or teachers. Finally, when a group of 20 kids threatened to beat him up at the carwash the next day, he finally told his older brother, who in turn informed his parents. His dad looked up his main tormentor’s phone number in the phone book and told her dad to make his daughter stop or he’d contact the police. It worked. Josh's story is a story to tell others and studies show that each year kids just like Josh are victims of bullying. Over 3.2 million school aged students are bullied each year according to https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-bullying resulting in about 160,000 staying home from school because of it. 17% of American students report being bullied 2 to 3 times a month or more within a school semester. Josh was bullied so badly in the worst ways and he decided to tell and it changed his life, you can make the decision to tell yourself or let others, but don't just sit there and let the bullies be mean, if josh wouldn't have told his brother then josh would have had bruises all over his face after school. If you see someone getting bullied i suggest you tell someone it will change someone's life.
There are several types of bullying. One form of bullying is verbal. People can be verbally bullied by name calling, insults, teasing, intimidation, homophobic or racist remarks.
Another type of bullying is cyber bullying. People are cyber-bullied by being harassed online, cyberstalking, outing, and catfished. The terms outing and Catfishing are not well-known but they are truly terrible. Outing is the public display or forwarding of personal communications such as text messages, emails or instant messaging. If you don't know what Catfishing is, it is a person who fakes there age on an online account and tries luring out young people, and many teens. There has been some others who have started talking sexualy

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