Food for Thought

      Bullying: The Silent Epidemic Paragraph Writing by Aya Ayash (9 C)    Bullying is a serious global issue that affects mental health causing an individual to commit suicide and suffer anxiety. To begin with, bullying can be a tremendously painful experience for young people since it gives them the feeling that they are alive only to get insulted and are deeply weak so they end up with the idea of committing suicide to escape that reality. For example, Brodie Padlock, age 19, was an Australian waitress that died after jumping from a multilevel carpark, her suicide was attributed to serious workplace bullying. Another disadvantage of bullying is suffering from apprehension, where a person feels unaccepted, isolated, and withdrawn. He or she always wonder how they can do better in enhancing relationships and escape a bully’s notice. A bullied person gets frightened once he or she is in contact with anyone, fearing that they would bully him or he...

   Paragraph Writing: Bullying is Still Rife in Schools        Reem Rammal (9C)   Bullying encompasses a plethora of byproducts in the academic domain such as causing deterioration in scholastic results and leading to school dropout. To begin with, low academic achievement in school cannot be addressed while ignoring bullying because the two are directly linked. Students who are repeatedly bullied receive poorer grades and participate less in class discussions. Some students may get mislabeled as low achievers because they do not want to speak up in class for fear of getting bullied.  A UCLA study conducted with 2,300 students in 11 Los Angeles–area public middle schools and their teachers asked the students to rate whether or not they get bullied on a four-point scale and to list which of their fellow students were bullied the most — physically, verbally and as the subject of nasty rumors. A high level of bullying was consistently associa...

Paragraph Writing by Lynn Shehab (9B) Bullying: A Menace to Academic Performance    Bullying encapsulates a plethora of academic consequences, for it is the reason behind school dropout and deterioration of the scholar results. To start with, bullying can lead to fear of school and absenteeism. A school where children don’t feel safe and secure is a school where children struggle to learn; it’s a school where kids dropout and tune out. To illustrate, according to statistics reported by ABC News in 2012, 160,000 kids stay home away from school because of fear of bullying. Moreover, from bullying and corporal punishment to sexual assault, violence at schools affects the scholar results of students and confuses their thoughts. Bullying, verbal harassment, substance abuse, and disruptive classrooms all interfere with a student’s ability to learn.  As an example, a study conducted by Virginia High School Safety suggests that teasing and bullying at the high school level ...

Paragraph Writing by Carla Hamieh 9B A Predator Chasing Victims                  Bullying influences one’s social life by changing one’s behavior to an aggressive one and leading to delinquency . To begin with, bullying affects a person by making him aggressive and violent. He or she will no longer care about ethics and morals and considering himself or herself as a victim of bullying, savagery, and barbarity might be printed in one’s personality and have a role in changing the way they deal with people and how they act around them into total lack of responsibility and cruelty. For example, according to a study by researchers from the Washington University and Indiana University in 2006, 97 percent of children involved in bullying and who are bullies, were also victims of bullying in the previous years. Bullying also leads a person to go astray. For one to be accepted in his or her community, he or she woul...