Bullying, an epidemic?

It happens everyday in school at work in the community even online its affecting the youth of america and suicide rates are higher than ever! what is this problem might you ask? BULLYING! Yup i said it bullies are tormenting people everywhere now and many victims of bullying feel they have nowhere to turn to stop the abuse so they turn to destructive things such as cutting many even choose suicide after dealing with it for so long. So what is being done about bullying? Sadly not much many adults simply choose to overlook it instead of confronting the problem directly, it is beleived that bullying stems from a low self esteem themselves and because of this they act out on others to try and make themselves feel better and the truth is it doesnt. Many bullies think what theyre doing cant cause any harm when in reality it does it can dramatically effect self image, just ask Alye Pollack the eight grader who made a youtube video after dealing with bullying and not knowing where to turn she used her voice in a powerful way which let her bullies know hey what did i ever do to you, the video was so popular it made it on cnn and it addresses a very big issue many young girls are the victims called names such as a bitch or fat ect they start to believe it and when they look at themselves thats what they see instead of a beautiful intelligent young woman, even alye herself said she wasnt a cutter but was close the question is, How far are we gonna let this go before it turns into something bigger than us america, are we to wrapped up in our own selfish selfs that were not paying attention to what our children are doing? When you hear your teenage son or daughter talking rudley about a classmate or witness them bullying another do you just blame it on their age and say theyll grow out of it or do you actually do something? Do you teach your kids that its wrong to bully, or do you yourself bully others and not realize that your child is twice as likely to bully another if you condone it maybe one day they may even bully you, America stand up and fight this do we really want our children to be bullied to the point that they snap and act out whether it be on themselves or others like what happened at Columbine High School? Those boys were bullied each and everyday until they had enough they took guns and shot up the school before later killing themselves do we really want that again? Maybe you think your son or daughter cant be a bully but im here to tell you that they can, it only takes one time to start an epidemic so why not take a stand against it? Bullying is harmful and in most states illegal its slanderous demeaning and downright hurtful as a victim myself i can tell you its really damaging to the self esteem and i applaud Alye Pollack for having the courage to stand up and say shes being bullied and wants it to end many suffer in silence lets do something america one person can be a bully or they can be a friend which will you choose? To stand by as somebody is bullied to no end and chooses to commit suicide or will you step in and prevent further damage stop bullycide america its a growing problem just ask alye herself or even elizabeth after hearing their stories i realized this is much bigger than just my town this happens everyday to real people it needs to be stopped. Be Heros Save Lives help stomp out bullying you just might start an epidemic.