Safe Schools?

Bullying is a common problem in children and teens of all ages. It occurs in schools most often, where someone chooses to harass another kid for the fun of it. What the bully doesn't know is that this harms the child significantly. Many cases happened where a child suggests suicidal ideas or thoughts and executes the thought. These ideas and thoughts only happen because the child is either too stressed out, or most often, is bullied. Sometimes bullying can cause murderous thoughts in the child's mind and cause him/her to do unacceptable actions.

This is what happened in this case. The 14 year-old woman brought two knives to school and released her anger on six innocent students and three faculty members. These students may have done nothing wrong to her, but someone in the school definitely has. The amount of bullying she had received was enough to stir murderous thoughts inside of her head. Her quote; "Nobody believes me," was enough to describe the school's unsupportiveness towards bullied victims. Victims of bullying are prone to these issues and will get to the point where they break and commit homicidal things.

Schools should encourage anti-bullying in order to avoid these problems. Luckily, my school has a bullying awareness week which plays a major role in preventing these problems. Our school can possibly start programs in which we try and spread the awareness on bullying throughout different schools. We must be supportive to the victims of bullying, so they feel less lonely and feel more integrated in the school community.