Odd Girl Out by Rachael Pollan-(Jasiu Metkowski)

In our modern day society our schools are now facing many difficulties. Some of the difficulties schools frequently face include problems like poor performance, low payment and the most popular and the most difficult to control; bulling. Sometimes bullies call it a "joke", and sometimes it goes beyond limits. There are many cases where bully victims get harmed so deeply, causing them to face the temptation of committing suicide. And yet, I wonder why bulling has become such a great problem. But after reading some blogs, I ran into one by Vincent Liu where he stated some believable theories that can answer my question.

There are many reasons why I think people bully others. One reason is that they feel the need to bully others to feel good about them. People that bully others might feel that they become a superior force compared to others which make them feel good. Another reason why I think people bully others is that they want attention. By bullying, they get a lot of attention by the people around them which may cause the bully to feel good to be the center of attention. The last reason that I can think of why people bully others is that there is something wrong with their mental state.

I believe that one of Vincent’s strongest points was when he spoke about bullies trying to become the center of attention. Many times bullies use a joke on their victims, usually making the class laugh high, but making the victim sink low with shame and sadness. If the bully's joke is good enough, it frequently can cause people to view the bully as a class comedian, instead of a cruel bully. Tying to another point Vincent made about bully pride, a "classical" bully joke can provide the bully with pride and a superior felling since his/her classmate find him/her "cool". Unfortunately, many students base their lives on being "cool" and "having a life" instead of focusing on their studies. . So if we are to have safer schools in our country, we should focus on changing what determines a school's character; its students. We should encourage students to try to remain positive to one another and avoid the "why" bulling happens. If we can mange to do so, many of our bully problems can drop and even be earased.

Odd Girl Out by Rachel Simmons

bulling and ganging up on a person are both done frequently on our modern day society. i is a great problem many schools are facing daily. students insult each other and commonly gang up and pick on a few victims. many of the insults bully victims experience are based on thier race, religion, apperince, character and advances in education (where "nerd" came from). the insults and harm the victim experiences (joke or not) can cause some negitive effects such as depresion, anger, and if worst comes to worse, the victim could experience the temptation of commiting suicide. i confess i have bullied others in the past.i wanted to join the laughter so i would tag along, though when it went beond limits i would try to chill it down. i once bullied a student because of the way the teacher adored him and ignored us, but eventually i changed and became friends with him. however, when i started going to private schools i became the victim instead of being the bully. i supose i was just not thier style. they insulted me because i was "not up to date", what a rediculos reason. i spoke about a clip on YouTube which was established a few mounths age and there they laughted at me. my first private middle school closed so i had to go to a new one where the students were no better if not worse. i was excluded from thier games because i was not the best and my familiy's race. they thought of me as a caword because i refused to inapropriatly touch the girls. i never bothered to inform the teachers about what was going on because i was in risk of being in thier classes for the next five years and it would worsen the situation. they thought of me as a wierd person because i am against abortion which today is the 21st century houlocaust. but today at ASTI it is totaly different. here everyone treats everyone with respect and equality. we are like one big family.i can be the person who i am and not have to worry about what others think of me. unfortunatly, not every school is like ASTI. many need to be reformed and improved. there are schools these days that have students bringing guns to class and will to rape others. we need to end the caos and start improving. we need to spread the characterists of ASTI to other schools so that they may too get out of the bully black hole.