Bullying

Bullying in the United States has become a serious problem. There are many things people are trying to do to raise awareness about bullying and to make it stop. This website I found is all about the statistics about bullying. It says that " about 30% of students in the United States are involved in Bullying on a regular basis" that doesn't seem like a big number but that is throughout the entire united States. I also think that having it be on a regular basis is pretty astonishing. All the programs and things have done a good job raising awareness about bullying but it is still a big issue. I find it bone chilling how many stories you hear when it comes to teens committing suicide over bullying. One of the reasons I don't think bullying has stopped is because we have not found the root of it yet. The  best thing people have come up with is kids are mean, or its in kids nature, or even its the person getting bullied fault. I definitely don't have all the answers but I think having less competition would help. There is so much pressure on kids to win or do the best that it immediately gives the "winners" power over the "losers", and the kids who are normally the "winners" are the bullies in a lot of situations. I think testing also has to do with the constant mind set of competition and also kids who don't do as well or have a harder time understanding the content become the victims of scrutiny.

http://www.bullyingstatistics.org/content/school-bullying-statistics.html