10 facts(:

1.It is estimated that 160,000 children miss school every day due to fear of attack or intimidation by other students.
2.A survey conducted by the American Association of University Women reported that 85% of girls were sexually harrased/bullie
3.76% of boys have been sexually harassed in some form and only 18% of those incidents were perpetrated by  adults.
4.Young bullies carry a one-in-four chance of having a criminal record by age 30.
5.American schools harbor approximately 2.1 million bullies and 2.7 million of their victims.
6.One in seven students is either a bully or victim.7.56% of students have personally witnessed some type of bullying at school.8.15% of all school absenteeism is directly related to fears of being bullied at school9.71% of students report incidents of bullying as a problem at their school.
10. In a poll of 232 kids in kindergarten through 8th grade at a Connecticut elementary school, every child claimed to have been the victim of at least one schoolmate’s or sibling’s meanness in the previous month.
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Bullying is such an important cause to me, it hits me in the heart just hearing the word. Bullying causes innocent kids to take their lives away. One of my friends was bullied and commited suicide not to long ago. It should be adressed through social critisism because the word needs to get out! People who do bully need to realixe what they are doing and understand how wrong it is. Kids are taking their lives over rude people. By recgonizing the problem maybe we can fix that problem.

StopBullying.

It was just normal day at school as young jimmy was walking out to go home. Standing on the front steps was Kyle, Alex, and, Michael. The bullies as everyone referred to them! They stopped him dead in his tracks and just started teasing him! Kyle started calling him mean names and making fun of him. As the next few weeks went on so did the bullying. It started getting worse as the weeks progressed. The boys would message Jimmy on twitter saying horrid things to him. Some days they followed him home just making snide comments behind him as he walked.  Jimmy hated his life! He was always sad and always feet worthless! Jimmy wanted to take the easy way out! He felt like he wasn’t worth living, or breathing the air he breathed. The next day after school the bullies started up again! This time they were yelling at Jimmy. Michael started to push him and threw jimmy on the ground.  One of the football players named Tyler saw them and ran up to them. Tyler picked up Jimmy and made the boys back off. Tyler was so mad because his sister had committed suicide due to bullying. Seeing Jimmy being bullied really hit him hard.  He looked at all the boys and was just ashamed. He told them bullying was wrong and a terrible thing be doing. Tyler made the point that bullying can lead to the victim self harming or even death. The bullies stood quiet for a few seconds and then realized what they had been doing. They saw the pain in Jimmy's eyes and immediately felt like crap. They apologized repeatedly and couldn’t stop. Tyler then looked at the boys and said "Take stand boys. Bullying is a big deal and its nothing to joke around about! Please stand with me and STOP BULLYING!"


To me compelling means pointing out facts that make people realize what the issue is and making them understand the bad in it.