Bullying is a crime that negatively impacts students and causes them to drop out of school. Bullying causes students to be afraid to come to school and leads to lower academic performance. It has also been linked to increased suicide rates among students. Bullying damages students' self-esteem and can lead to mental health issues like depression. More needs to be done to prevent bullying and protect students.

1. Bullying is a crime

2. Introduction
• What would happen if bullying stopped in
every school in the United States? Every year
kids get bullied and their learning suffers as a
result. They are afraid of coming to school
because of bullies. If bullies stop then our kids
would go to school to not worry about
anything but to learn and stay in learning
zone. 15% of Hispanics drop out school ,8% of
black drop out of school, but students who get
bullied have a higher percentage than that.

3. Thesis statement
–Even though some people believe bullying
is not a crime ,bullying is a crime because
it make students drop out of school.
Students have killed themselves because
of bullying. Bullying causes students to
have a low self esteem.

4. Support 1
• Bullying causes many children to drop out of
school

5. evidence
• One reason students who are bullied drop out
of school is because they are afraid of coming
to school.

6. Evidence
• 2) Bullying is the most common form of
violence in our society; between 15% and 30%
of students are bullies or victims.”(Cohn and
Canter). According to a UVA study “high levels
of bullying in the school increased dropout
counts from 18.6 students to 25.3 students.”
(Daniels). Failing in school is also another
reason why kids drop out of school because of
bullying.

7. Support 2
• Bullying provokes kids to commit suicide

8. Evidence
• Suicides happen in school because of bullying.
Bullying is the most common form of violence
in our society. Some other effects are that
bullying can cause depression for the victim,
and that depression can lead to violent things
such as self harm. Which can be used in
multiple ways some are good and some are
bad, they can make trouble in their
environment like getting involve in gang
related activity.

9. Evidence
• 21 students died in the Sandy Hook
elementary school shooting and that was all
about bully. (dosomething.org).Bullying has
multiple affects on teenagers,

10. Support 3
• Bullying makes kids think they have a low
self-esteem

11. evidence
• Electronic bullying in schools: Kids used to bully others on the playground
and in school halls, but now they’ve taken bullying to new level. Electronic
devices, such as computer and mobile phones, and programs such as
tweeter has been used to bully schoolchildren. Now gives students random
devoid avenue through which to bother and hurt other. (Ryan
gargulinski).Cyber bullying is a growing national concern, with roughly 75
percent of teenagers using cell phones to bully other. Cell p phones are the
most common instrument of provocation according to “William J.
Bennett”. Bullying should be a crime; it is very cruel and immoral. Each
day an estimated 160,000 students miss school in fear of being bullied and
10 percent of student who drop out do so because of repeated bullying

12. Evidence
According to this article, healthychildren.org .Bullies Beat
Down Self Esteem Bullying damages a child’s ability to
see herself in a positive light. A teen whose self-esteem
is shot may start to believe what the bully says is true,
and begin to self-bully with thoughts of being weak,
ugly, or worthless. This may lead to self-loathing or
feeling hopeless. Social withdrawal and social anxiety
may also become a problem, harming the adolescent’s
self-esteem even more. One particularly problematic
result of bullying is anger, which can bring about
thoughts (or actions) of retaliation. Almost three-
quarters of the attackers in school shootings felt
bullied, reports the U.S. Secret Service.

13. Evidence 2
• . The way it makes children feel isn’t fair to
them. Visualize that bullying is happening to
you. Bullying in school presents problems to
every age group therefore there should be
more bullying preventing programs to help
clear up the problem.

14. Conclusion
Bullying in school is wrong and schools should
have more bullying prevention programs.
Everyone needs to be more aware about the
situation, and not deny it because it is
happening whether everyone would like to
admit it or not .parents need to stand up and
take charge and make a change in students’
lives. Teachers should do more about the
students who being bullied“

15. videos
• Which video best help you understand the
true meaning of bully
1) the story of a girl who was bullied
2) a boy who was bullied

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19. forum
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