Bullies

Bullies have always been around. Of course, now we have the internet that makes it much worse. Nobody likes to be bullied. It is not a good feeling. But I feel that everyone has experienced a little bit of bullying in their lives. I was bullied in high school. I was kind of nerdy, but I made it, and funny thing is that my bully and I still talk on Facebook. Time marches on, I guess. 

I have seen kids be bullied in schools where I was a teacher. There was a boy who would get bullied by being ignored. He would try to play with the other kids at recess, but they never let him. And in class when I would assign partners, the kids never wanted to be his buddy. I asked why one day when this boy was absent. I asked the kids why they excluded him. Their response was that he was weird and different. We had big talks about acceptance and being a friend. For a while, it would work but eventually they would start to ignore him again. It was always a constant struggle. 

There were other students who were bullied by being beaten up or having something stolen every day. It was something that had to be handled every day at some schools. Now, students can get bullied over the internet. That is scary. I wish that we could all get along but that doesn't always happen. I'm afraid that bullying is an ongoing problem.