bullying project

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Hey guys! So for English class we had to get into groups and make a persuasive essay. My group and i decided to persuade against bullying. Along with out essay, we made a slide show for fun. This slide shows true facts that were researched. I really hope Lexi Saal can see this!

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- Sammi, Alex, & Emma

• 3 out of 4 students have reported being bullied in school.

• 1 out of every 5 students do not feel safe using the restrooms at their own school.

• Nearly 160,000 students do not go to school on any given day, due to bullying.

• It is estimated that there is over 19,000 attempted suicides each year due to cyber bullying.

• In a year, 1 out of every 13 people under the age of 19 attempt suicide.

• BULLYCIDE- A suicide caused as a result of bullying.

• Bullying leads to depression, low self-esteem, and isolation.

• Being bullied causes students to be 2-3 times more likely to develop illnesses and continuously have headaches.

• Studies show that boys identified as bullies in middle school are 4 times as likely as their peers to have more then one criminal conviction by the age of 24.

• If you are over 12 years old and decide to bully someone, you may be committing a criminal act.

• Reactive bullying occurs once every 7 minutes, that’s almost 206 occurrences a DAY. On average it only takes 37 seconds to bully someone.

• Over 250,000 students reported being physically attacked by their peers a month.

• The rate of bullying has TRIPLED in the last 20 years.

• About 23 kids that are bullied in OUR school, may attempt suicide.

There were 1,189 suicides in New York

alone in 2005.

Bullying can lead to…

Bullying Hurts

•REPORT IT!

•DELETE IT!

•END IT!

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