Personal Essay: Bully In The 5th Grade

According to the American Psychological Association, “Bullying is a form of aggressive behavior in which someone intentionally and repeatedly causes another person injury or discomfort. Bullying can take the form of physical contact, words or more subtle actions” (Bullying, 2013). People bully each other for several reasons and there are different outcomes that are a result of those reasons. People can be bullied physically, emotionally, or verbally. Bullying can take place at school or online. Bullying should be a considered a crime, but kids get away with it all the time; furthermore prevention can be used in order to keep kids safe from bullying.

“The Girl Who Got Even: A True Cyberbullying Story” and “Lizzie Velasquez: My Anti-Bullying Story”

loves to joke and gets worried very quickly. Sticks up for friends, and won't let anyone

My friend Ellijah is one of the most outgoing, animated and hard-working friends I have met. He is the same age as I am. We have been extremely close friends since 6th grade, when my transfer from Farmington Schools to Lakeville Schools happened. Our friendship started in Middle School gym class, and still continues today. One of the first things we learned about each other was, we both lived between two houses growing up, and had many brothers and sisters along with step-parents. Joining a new school was something scary to me and a hard to do. Especially becoming new to the city of Lakeville. Ellijah was there to hang out and help me whenever I needed it. We are still close friends today! We attend the same Church group at Hosanna, play on the same football team, and get food with Tommy, Bryce, and Jack on the weekends at Chipotle.

(That is Chinease.) He is new, and was born in Canada. He plays basketball. He is their age. (They are 14.) He is prone to OCD-like tics such as moving around papers, muttering things three times in a row, and obsessive counting of the amount of times he touches a door knob. He likes a skating videogame because he liked a youtuber named Kudscrouts (Was that what he said? They don't know. They were eavesdropping in a loud classroom. They hate loud noises but focusing on one thing helps them not freak out.) He has a few bad sides: forgetful, impulsive, obsessive, and always looking for a fight. He had good qualities too: energetic, funny, tolerant, and they recently discovered that he was a selfless hero. He was their superhero. Instead of a red cape and blue tights, he came to them in a red hoodie and jeans.

Braedon is a very bright 8 year old, with light blonde hair, blue eyes, a scar under his right eye from where he fell off a tractor, and a slight gap between his two front teeth. He may seem and look like any other 8 year old boy, but once you meet him, you’ll realize who he truly is. He can be very mean to his family and to his teacher, he says mean things like “shut up” and tells his parents to stop talking to him, which is very disrespectful. He also makes baby noises whenever he doesn’t get his way even though he is too old to be making these noises. His father does not approve of these noises.

Walking down the school hall to the next class, the bully appears before his prey. He stands before his soon to be victims as if he is two feet taller and ten times stronger. His victims attempt to ignore him, but he stops them and puts his face in front of theirs to make sure his presence is known. He then abruptly decides to save his senseless punishment for another day as he passes by with a slight shoulder nudge. In today’s high schools, the majority of bullying incidents occur in this fashion. A bully finds the weakest kids and targets them. Freaks and Geeks, a television show, demonstrates these specific bullying instances and their effect on the character Bill Haverchuck. The pain bullying causes

I believe this since we both take in interest in science and the ocean which could result in us discussing about science for ages and if I were a senior in high school, we could wind up in the same college. His loyalty to Aaron and Taylor are what allow him to easily be outgoing and create friendships but instead, he decides to be more reserved to himself. I would’ve loved to have his humor and ability to lighten the mood for a whole room after an incident. I, for one, can only comfort one person at a time, but instead I use care which, to be honest, takes more time and has a large chance of the person telling you to leave them alone for a while or the person not having a reaction at all. He would definitely be the person I would rant about my bad days to and know that he would cheer me

For decades bullying has been nothing more than what the average child experience it was almost just a part of growing up. Starting from the elementary school playground next the middle school locker room and finally high school hall ways. Society has only pushed it to the side as a minor problem, prompting kids to face their bully forcing the bully to say sorry and forcing victims to accept the apology with the given of options A. be friends or B. stay away. Unfortunately this 21st century “bullying” has undoubtedly transformed its self into its own monster. Due to more ways of communication and self-freedom kids have these days it seem society has walked itself into something bigger then “minor” bullying.

Many kids all around the world are abused by their parents, peers or even by complete strangers. One of these types of abuse is bullying. At a first glance, we might think that it is an older kid beating/teasing a younger classmate however; bullying consists of much more than this. The basic definition of bullying is when your behavior hurts or harms another person physically or emotionally. There are many different types of bullying, which may lead to a victim becoming violent later on. There is teasing and name calling, there is also picking and shoving the kid. However, the most extreme one would be beating up the child, hurting them physically and mainly, emotionally.

The Effects of Bullying on a Child Every day in our schools, children are threatened, teased, taunted, and tormented by bullies. At any given time, about 25 percent of U.S. students are the victims of bullies and about 20 percent are engaged in bullying behavior (Education World, 2000). The National Association of School Psychologists estimates that 160,000 children stay home from school every day because they are afraid of being bullied (Education World, 2000). Bullying is characterized by three criteria(NCPTB, 2003): It is aggressive behavior or the intent to harm,

Many people do not realize how serious bullying has become. If you look at statistics suicides due to bullying have increased over just a few short years. This has become a very big problem for not only the victim but the bully as well as it affect both of them. School bullying is mentally destructive to not only the victims, but bullies because of the harmful words, harassment, and physical violence involved as well as the consequences for the bully.

There was a young Boy named Steve which had parents named Kelli and Matt. They were a very poor family and almost didn’t have enough money for school let alone food. Steve always got bullied at school all the time because he was very poor. Steve in his free time would try to steal food from carts in the big apple, New York. One day the family got a new better job in Minnesota for more money so Steve and his parents moved over to Minnesota from New York. His parents boss payed for the flight. Once they got all the furniture over to Minnesota the only thing that needed to go there then was the family on the last trip. Steve wanted to move because he got bullied at his old school and he thought this school would give him better opportunities to not be bullied and picked on.

Bullying, in its many forms, is becoming an extremely hazardous problem that many individuals endure. Bullies torment others because they themselves have insecurities, have been bullied themselves, or have a mental illness that brings out the worst in them. Nevertheless, bullying can physically and emotionally destroy the victim, whether it is by physical abuse, cyber bullying, or verbal abuse.

 “Bullying is one form of violence that seems to have increased in recent years,