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In schools all around the world children and teenagers are bullied.
About 1 in 3 people will at some time in there life experience bullying, whether it be mild or harsh, emotional or physical.
Bullying is defined as when someone keeps doing or saying things to have power over another person.
Whether it be by calling them name, writing stuff abou them, kicking hitting them, threatening them,leaving them out of things,
not talking to them, making them feel uncomfortable or scared, even making them do things that they dont want to do.
But this is only a definition of what it is? definitions cannot pervay how we feel, and sometimes nobody really knows
the real deal. People may think that they 'over exaggerate' what really happens and instead of helping push them away thats
when bullying can lead us into a spiralling channel into depression.
As bullying prolongs and becomes more consistant to the person and unless it is stopped it can and will become worse.
more and more people eventually get involved and the feeling of helplessness overcomes the person.
things such as 'maybe i am ugly' everyone says it....
or 'maybe i am dumb i dont deserve to be here'
Bullying gets us thinking are we really like that...
Maybe i should change then they wont be mean...
But we as victims, parents, girls and boys need to stand up BECAUSE BULLYING IS NOT OK and it is infact its against
the law.
'Anytime a bully hits, attempts to hit or threatens to hit anyone that bully may be committing a crime called assault.If
the bullying is based on sexual or racial grounds, whether it is physical, verbal or psychological the bully could be prosecuted
under anti discrimination laws.If the bullying is done by spreading rumours, starting gossip, telling lies or in some cases,
name calling, the bully and all those who spread the stories could be sued for defamation. This is part of the civil law and
has been developed over the years to protect the reputations of innocent people. Schools are required by law to look after
all their students; it's called a ‘duty of care’—if they do nothing about reported cases of bullying and
someone suffers physical injury, they run the risk of being sued under civil law for breaching that duty of care.'
(http://www.justice.qld.gov.au/education/law/bullying.htm)
