The Results Of Bullying In Schools

This starts off bad but end up good.

The results of being the odd kid out at school often ends in bullying.

Stop and think for a minute… “Who gets bullied in school?”

Is it the most popular kid in school?
Is it the star football player?
Is it the student with a large “Click” around them?
It it the kid wearing glasses?
Is it the Kid that stutters?
Is it the boy who acts feminine?

I wore glasses in early elementary school and I was henceforth known as “HEY Four Eyes!”

It is the child who is different, the quite shy ones who get bullied.

High schoolers step in to fill sixth grader's yearbook after his classmates refused to sign it
'Just seeing him light up, it felt really good,' said one teen. 'It was a small thing, but it made him so happy.'
UpWorthly
By Jisha Joseph
September 9, 2022


Cassandra Ridder was heartbroken when her son Brody came home from school last week with only a handful of signatures in his yearbook—one of which was his own. "Hope you make some more friends. — Brody Ridder," the 12-year-old had written. A devastated Ridder saw that only two other classmates and two teachers had signed the yearbook apart from her rising seventh grader. According to The Washington Post, Brody has been a student at the Academy of Charter Schools in Westminster, Colorado, since fifth grade. Although he had several friends at his previous school, his mother revealed that he has struggled socially and has been repeatedly bullied over the past two years.

"There [are] kids that have pushed him and called him names," said Ridder, who explained that she switched her son's school before fifth grade to give him more academic support. "Brody has been through a lot." Although the bullying somewhat subsided after she addressed the issue with school administrators in February, the concerned mother says she could tell "the teasing was still there." She realized the true extent of what Brody was going through when he told her what happened when he asked his classmates to sign his yearbook on May 24.

This could have had a very different ending if wasn’t for some high schoolers.

Seventeen-year-old Joanna Cooper revealed that when she received a text message from her mother with a screenshot of Ridder's post, she decided right away that she would "get people and we're going to sign his yearbook" because "no kid deserves to feel like that." The 11th grader still remembers the intense pressure she felt to fit in when she was Brody's age. Having signatures in your yearbook wasn't only a measure of popularity, she recalled, but also meant simply "knowing that you have friends." "Signing someone's yearbook was all the rage," Cooper said. "That people would tell him no and deny him a signature, it just hurt my heart."

Cooper contacted several of her friends and they made a plan to visit Brody's homeroom class together the following day. However, what she didn't know at the time was that many other students were hatching the same plan. One of them was Simone Lightfoot—also an 11th grader at the school—who revealed that she could relate to Brody's plight. "When I was younger, I was bullied a lot like him," she said. "If I could do one little thing to help this kid feel a little better, I'd be more than willing to." Maya Gregory, an eighth grader at the school, felt the same. "No one helped me when I was in that situation," the 14-year-old revealed. "So I wanted to be there for him."

I remembers being the new kid on the block, we moved to town when I was just 7 and I hated the fact that my parents held me back so I could start in the first grade at the new school instead of second grade… I hated it!

Well I hated school in general but being held back also added to angst, looking back at it, they made a smart move. I was with the same group of kids not starting off as the new kid in second grade, we were all new kids in the first grade.

When the high schoolers marched in to sign his year book it shamed some of his classmate to also sign. The peer-pressure from the other classmates was broken.

That is the other thing about bullying… peer-pressure, children who know bullying is wrong but don’t speak up because it is “not cool.”

… Cooper said. The students' kindness touched school administrators, who explained that the transition from remote learning back to in-person classes has caused more conflicts and bullying. "A lot of students are struggling with peer relationships and social skills," said Brent Reckman, chief executive at the Academy of Charter Schools. "It's up to us to figure out how to help kids and families with it, but it's a challenge faced by all schools right now. It can be really tough to be a teenager. I was really impressed with how our students stepped up when they saw a peer in need."