Indiana Should Pass Better Bullying Laws
Should better laws be passed to prevent bullying?
By: Sarrah Davis Bullying needs to be stopped! The United States needs better laws to prevent bullying. How much more can teens take? I think laws need to be passed as soon as possible because bellying can cause you to get sick and I don’t mean you don’t have confidence in yourself anymore. WAY too many teens die from suicide each year because of bullying. The commercials on TV don’t scare bullies enough to get them to stop. We need better laws with better punishments! First of all over 160,000 teens skip school every day because they are scared of bullies. Last time I checked you have to be at school to pass. 1 in every 10 teens drops out of school each year because of bullying. Teachers rarely see bullying going on but when they do only 4% of teachers do something about it. I did a survey and 61% of students have been bullied. 52% of kids have bullied someone before. 96% of kids have seen someone getting bullied but only 65% of students attempted to help that person. 50% of students think that bullying is a problem. Most teens don’t tell adults about bullying because it makes it worse or it is ineffective. Secondly, over 4,400 teens take their lives each year from bullying. 100 teens attempt it each year. 14% of teen’s conceder it, but only 7% of teens actually tries it. Have you ever considered it? In 1996 more teens died from suicide than cancer, heart disease, aids, birth defects, stroke, pneumonia, influenza and chronic lung disease CONBINED! That is a serious problem. Many teen have committed suicide, for example Megan Myers she was cyber bullied so bad that she hung herself 3 weeks before her 14th birthday. There is way more stories just like that. It’s not fair how teens take their lives because of bullying. It gets even worse when students bring guns to school to “get back everyone who has ever hurt them.” 75% of school shootings are because teens are on suicide missions so they kill there selves
By: Sarrah Davis Bullying needs to be stopped! The United States needs better laws to prevent bullying. How much more can teens take? I think laws need to be passed as soon as possible because bellying can cause you to get sick and I don’t mean you don’t have confidence in yourself anymore. WAY too many teens die from suicide each year because of bullying. The commercials on TV don’t scare bullies enough to get them to stop. We need better laws with better punishments! First of all over 160,000 teens skip school every day because they are scared of bullies. Last time I checked you have to be at school to pass. 1 in every 10 teens drops out of school each year because of bullying. Teachers rarely see bullying going on but when they do only 4% of teachers do something about it. I did a survey and 61% of students have been bullied. 52% of kids have bullied someone before. 96% of kids have seen someone getting bullied but only 65% of students attempted to help that person. 50% of students think that bullying is a problem. Most teens don’t tell adults about bullying because it makes it worse or it is ineffective. Secondly, over 4,400 teens take their lives each year from bullying. 100 teens attempt it each year. 14% of teen’s conceder it, but only 7% of teens actually tries it. Have you ever considered it? In 1996 more teens died from suicide than cancer, heart disease, aids, birth defects, stroke, pneumonia, influenza and chronic lung disease CONBINED! That is a serious problem. Many teen have committed suicide, for example Megan Myers she was cyber bullied so bad that she hung herself 3 weeks before her 14th birthday. There is way more stories just like that. It’s not fair how teens take their lives because of bullying. It gets even worse when students bring guns to school to “get back everyone who has ever hurt them.” 75% of school shootings are because teens are on suicide missions so they kill there selves