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Kathy Shaidle's 'In Defense Of Bullying'

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The Bullying Epidemic
Bullying has increased drastically among adolescence in the past few years, not only in the United States but in other counties such as England. Gradually, bullying has become a rising epidemic among teens, largely due to rates of suicide and self-harm. According to Kathy Shaidle in the article “In Defense of Bullying” which states that this increase in suicide rates are non-significant (page 1). Then Kathy states that bullying isn’t a bad thing and can actually improve the motivation of the bullied victim to succeed, and that later in life they will be better for it and more successful. Kathy states that she had crooked teeth and thick glasses. When Kathy had attended schooling she was rude and cold to other students there, which meant that Kathy hadn’t gotten bullies except once by a few older girls attending the same school. Eventually, after these girls became aware of Kathy’s harsh …show more content…

There is an article online about Hannah Smith and her story, she had hung herself of inside her room because of cyber bullying. Hannah and many other youth have become not only bullying victims, but also suicide victims (Fagge and Nick, paragraph 3) Kathy Shaidle and her friends seem to be stating that bullying has no consequences and that anti-bullying is bullying. That if someone is protesting gay-bullying that this makes them a gay bully (Kathy, page 1). So the families that speak out against bullying suicides are suicide bullies? Families of these suicide victims are left heartbroken and questioning whose fault it was, if they had done something more could they have prevented their child’s death. Hannah and other families of suicide victims know that bullying it’s something you wouldn’t wish on your family or friends, which is why it shouldn’t be taken lightly how bullying affects the lives of the victims and those around

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