The question on many children's lips is why do people bully? The answer is always that bullies are victims themselves or that they are actually cowards. I don't personally believe any of these reasons and I don't think they are that helpful to people who are being bullied.
It is such a serious thing and I don't think that young people appreciate the power of their words and actions. Children kill themselves over bullying or move schools (which is a huge deal just in it's self), I've even known students to be taken out of school completely and be home schooled. It is also a difficult thing to tackle, even if a school cracks down on the problem they can't stop it happening completely. There are cases of children being bullied on the way home from school on the bus and there is also cyber bullying.
Cyber bullying is when threatening or nasty messages are sent through any kind of interactive device, such as the Internet, a text message or email. It must only involve minors otherwise it is cyber harassment. Cyber bullying has also resulted in young people committing suicide.
There are organisations designed to help young people who feel they are being bullied such as child line and other websites which will take emails from young people. I think that it is still such a major problem in some teenagers lives' and that more education should be put into anti bullying campaigns at all ages. We should come at anti bullying from the same angle as anti drugs.
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