Lewis
said he learned Thursday that Carterville High School in Crainville, Illinois,
had shown the sophomore class a video on Wednesday about bullying. "And,
at the end of the video, that the kid that was being bullied went home and
committed suicide," he said. The fact that Lewis did the same exact thing
as the kid in the video shows that the video wasn’t good in showing the proper
way to handle bullying. It should’ve shown the kid going to a counselor to get
help or someone stepping up to help this kid get a hold of the situation. It
showed have shown the kids suicide is not the answer, maybe they could of
stressed this at the end of the video how what the kid did on the video is not
the answer and there is better ways to cope with bullying and stand up to it
the right way. I do remember seeing a video similar to this in middle school
where the kid tried to commit suicide but somebody stopped him.
"This
bullying has to stop," the father said in his video. "People have to
stop treating other people the way they do, because some people just don't have
the strength to overcome the humiliation, the continuation of being picked on
constantly, every day, to the point that they have no outs." This is very
true, we need to stop being mean to others especially when you have no idea
what that person goes through every day. Just because you go to school with
someone doesn’t mean you know them enough to be rude to them and think they deserve
it or that they can handle another person bringing them. Regardless if you know
them or not you should never feel people deserve to be treated badly and told
hurtful things about themselves. There are kids out there that get bullied at
their own household, by their own siblings and maybe even parents. They may
have a terrible home life or broken up family and by hurting them at school on
top of the hurt they feel every day because their family life isn’t the best
can only lead them more to the conclusion that the only solutions is to die,
but it isn’t.
But,
she added, "We need to, as a society, not just the press, need to handle
suicides in a way that's knowledgeable, that provides hope and real resources
for people who are struggling, and not just a story that presents suicide as
the one and only outcome." We need to come together in all aspects and
defeat bullying for once and for all, if that is even possible. Until then we
need to look out for people we think are going through a rough patch and make
sure they know we are always there to talk to them and that suicide is never
the answer.
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