“…But Words Can Never Hurt Me.”

Throughout history of the schooling of children, there have been bullies and their victims. There are many speculations as to why children become bullies. Some believe these children have low self-esteems; while on another extreme, others believe these children are merely acting upon what they see at home. This makes one wonder if bullies are victims as well. Maybe they are; maybe they are not.

Regardless of why children become bullies, that is what they are, and they are wreaking havoc on their victims. Some of these children begin believing it is their fault that they are being singled out for torment. They feel they need to change who they are as to fit in better. Some become very depressed about their lives and begin wishing for better lives or even contemplate or succeed suicide. These children do not deserve to be put through this type of torture. Whether it is verbal or physical, it is torture.

Being a substitute teacher, I have seen many instances of children being under the attack of bullies. I

have also witnessed the reactions on the faces of their victims during the altercations and afterwards. While gazing upon the faces of the victims, I have seen the pain they were put through. I empathized with what they were feeling. It was not something those children who were unaware of their futures and what they would become should have had to go through. It was not their fault, and they were not asking for those atrocities to be put upon them. Still, the bullies singled out those children and made their young lives a living hell.

Adults need to realize how crucial it is to stop bullies in their tracks and put them in their place. It is not acceptable for us to ignore what is going on in thought that “these things just happen.” Yes, “these things” do “just happen,” but it is because we allow them to happen. If more adults would take action when these situations occurred, fewer lives would be warped by such heinous activities. There is no way of truly knowing how the victims of bullies internalize the abuse, or how they will react. We all have seen many occurrences on the news of school shootings allegedly due to some form of isolation or aggravation from the shooters’ peers, yet the bullying continues. It is sickening to think that instead of doing something about it, we are only hopin

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