When people start high school they begin to go through things in which people may not enjoy seeing or say they look or act "different." Harmful sayings are well known to happen in schools these days. Harmful name calling, or cyber bullying cause teenagers to act out. Bullying makes teenagers feel as if they are not wanted in the world. In the democratic and chronicle there is a story of a girl Delaney Escher from Victor was going into in her Sophmore year and was getting hateful text messages and voice mails by the hour. Her mother called who was thought to be the mother of the girl who was sending the harmful texts but they didn't stop. As school started she tried to stay away from certain people but had all these horrible images from the hurtful texts, eventually she went into therapy. She said that the first time she reported the problem it got worse, but she followed through and reported the rude classmates again and the bullying stopped.
Another story of bullying from the Democratic and Chronicle is about the family of Jim Harold Jr. They had just moved into Webster. Jim's school counselor had suggested that the parents of Jim get him tested for a few mental health tests. His parents were never asked to do this by his old school or by any of his doctors. As they were in the doctors within 5 minutes the health professional had asked the parents if they knew about their son having Asperger's, a condition characterized by significant social difficulties that falls within the autism spectrum. In which the parents had no clue of it until they were told. Now a senior in Webster Thomas Jim says that much of his past year is a blur he only remembers a little about being bullied. But what he does know is that things are much better since moving to Webster and subsequently being diagnosed.
In another story from the Democratic and Chronicle of a girl named Elise Groth of when she couldn't get on her school bus anymore. Her mother had pulled her out of school when things got to be to much for little Elise. She never wanted to go on the bus, she kept telling her mother over and over that she didn't want to go on the bus. In eighth grade Elise was asked out on a date from a boy on her bus, and she told him she wasn't allowed on dates and this is when the bullying began.
Jamey Rodemeyer, 14 year old boy from Williamson NY had taken his life Sunday because of non stop bullying about his sexuality. He was known to be bullied for years, and in wake of their lose the Rodemeyer family hope to carry on the message of anti-bullying and acceptance. Lady Gaga was Jamey's idol. On twitter it was said that Lady Gaga tweeted about Jamey's death and this is what she said,"bullying must be illegal, it is a hate crime." she tweeted. I asked three students from my Catholic Morality Class what were their thoughts on bullying. Emily B. said that "bullying is wrong and it should never happen." Liz P. said that "Bullying is immature, and that some people need to get over themselves." While my other classmate Antwoine A. said that "bullying is wrong and we should put an end to it. In Bishop Kearney we have an Anti-Bullying Policy. They believe in having a civil school environment for students. Any type of bullying is not tolerated in the school including cyber bullying. Cyber bullying is one of the most used way to bully other teenagers these days. In my mind, i feel that people use cyber bullying because they feel as if they will not get caught, and that it is "not as mean" rather then saying it to their face. Mr. Miller, the Dean of Students at Bishop Kearney quoted that "Bullying is bad, so don't do it, at all."As a Dean of Students, Mr. Miller is in charge of dealing with misbehaved students. He is the one that the teachers send the misbehaved students to and he gives them whatever he feels is the best way to let that student know what they have done is wrong. He has students who come in and complain to him about cyber bullying and as he said " What may be bullying to someone else, may not be bullying to you." By saying this you as a person need to respect that if one of your friends is telling you something about someone bullying them you need to understand that it may not be bullying to you, but your friend thinks it is and you need to try and help them with their problem.
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