‘Just Kidding’ and ‘Ganging Up’

I remember one time when a group of kids went around the whole school picking on smaller kids. At that time I was one of the smaller kids. They would do things like make fun of their clothes and how they looked. I know that that was wrong because kids couldn’t change how they looked, or how their clothes looked because the kid’s parents might not have had money to get them the name brand clothing. Whenever a kid would try to do something like confront the group they would just get humiliated. If the kids tried to go to the teacher they would simply exclaim they were just kidding. That really made me angry.

Some of my options were to try to tell a teacher, get in a fight, get a group of your friends to confront them with myself, or simply just ignore them. Trying to tell the teacher didn’t work because like I said, they would be ‘just kidding’. Getting in a fight didn’t make sense either because violence wasn’t the answer to this problem. Getting a group of my friends together made sense at first so I talked to a couple of them and we decided to do that. Later that day I realized that that would probably lead to violence to, so that choice was out. The last choice was to ignore them. That always works the best in a situation like that, but it is hard to do for me. I always just wanted to say something back, and a lot of the times I did. But I realized that it wouldn’t. Soon everybody else started to ignore them and they stopped. I think the reason that they stopped was because they always had someone react to it. Once they saw that everyone just ignored them they just felt stupid. I think that was the best ways to make anything like that stop.

I think the two main reasons that kids bully each other is because they either have been bullied themselves, or they have problems at home. If a kid is made fun of for a really long time they start to do it to other people because they think it is okay, or they need some way to let out their anger. If they have problems at home like abusive parents or their parents argue a lot they seem to do the same thing because that is how they were raised. Even if one of those two things I happening to you it is still not okay to tease people, or hurt them. And they reason that they do it to other kids is because they can’t do it to adults. If they tried to do that to an adult the adult would get them in trouble because they have more authority.

If you are being bullied by someone the best way to solve is by ignoring them. Remember this for the future.