Did you
knew that 1 in 4 teachers see nothing wrong with bullying and will only
intervene 4% of the time? The organization Do Something which has different
groups in different parts of the world informs us about this worrying statistics. Approximately
160,000 teens skip school every day because of bullying. 90% of 4th
through 8th graders report being victims of bullying. Can we just stop and
realize the meaning of these numbers, PEOPLE 90% OF CHILDREN IN THEIR EARLY YEARS
REPORT BULLYING. The worst part is not a lot of people are doing a great deal
to change this issue, and for those people doing nothing is like the problem
doesn't even exist but for the victims is an everyday challenge.
Now you may
say, but that's the rest of the world maybe it's not that bad here. Let me give
you some information then. The panorama goes like this... Mexico is in the
first place of international bullying statistics, and NO it does not goes like
"Yeii! We are the first in this, it means we did something about it."
We got this place because we ignore the problem and it is becoming worse each
day. CNN-Mexico, reports the Mexican press indicates that the
practice has grown by 10% in the recent two year period of 2011-2013. Also it
is indicated that about 6 out of 10 kids are not being treated fairly and are
receiving negative influences in their lives.
Besides the
problem is not limited to the contact with the schools since the technologies
have evolved to create a new kind of bullying which occurs through
internet and the user of social media is constantly receiving
negative messages through posts of their classmates. This is called
cyber-bullying.
CNN reports
that a teenager in Canada committed suicide. Her name was Amanda Todd. She
was pressured to take pictures and films of herself, at the end she did it.
Those videos and pictures where in Facebook and many of her classmates started
to make her both bullying in school and cyberbullying. She moved out but at the
end her videos and pictures leaked into her new life destroying everything she had, bullying came back and after a previous attempted suicide she ended up with her live living a testimony in YouTube. Here the video.
WE ARE LOSING OUR HUMANITY, TAKE AN ACTION STOP BULLYING
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