In class, we watched a movie called "Mean Girls." This movie clearly emphasizes that there are many different types of people with different personalities in school. Generally, you conform your school behavior to the group of people you identify as your friends. In "Mean Girls," there is a group of girls called the "plastics" who appear to be the worst people to befriend because they make fun of everybody and stress negatives about their supposed "friends." These girls also talk behind other kids backs for no good reason other than to upset them. This often causes an innocent student to lose a friendship based upon gossip that the "plastics" committed. For high school students, like those in this movie, talking behind someone's back or ridiculing another person for absolutely no reason, is very immature.
When I was growing up I was often ridiculed at my old school, which was a private Jewish Day School, becuase I learned differently and I was perceived to be a "little strange." Just because someone acts different does not give another person the right to degrade a classmate's inner-self. When one degrades another person, it leads to greater frustration and causes the child to learn negative things about other people and destroys former friendships that will never be resumed. Also, I will be the first to admit that there are some kids at school I ridicule and tease because I learned the hard way from students that riducled me for things that I could not help. I know that I should not do this and I do not understand why our generation cannot simply accept kids for who and what they are.
So, my question is, why do children "single-out" other students just because they are different? Have you ever been accused of being a bully, by degrading another student because they were different, or were you the victim of a bully? If you were a bully, explain how it made you feel. I can say first-handed, that when a person singles-out another person by talking behind their backs because they are different is very hurtful. I hope one day students will know the true meaning behind the saying, "Treat others the way you would like to be treated."
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It's very hard to change people's minds, some of them are very difficult to comprehend with, they are like conservatives, unwilling to change, even if you get to their heads they will go back to their normal selfs, like bullies. I seriously don't understand why bullies feel pleasure out of making fun of somebody or beating them, cause I've never bullied anyone in my entire life, maybe back when I was in Iraq, but I've always felt really sad about bullying someone. I think bullies are very jelous of how others are better than them at something, and that's the reason why they are very cruel and use intimidation to frighten others into doing something for their personal gain. I remember a time back in Iraq when we were playing soccer at school, a guy named Mustafa kicked the soccer ball outside of the field, and nobody would try to get it because you had to duck under a hole in the fence, but the floor was very dirty and muddy. So, a big guy from 6th grade walked up to me and ordered me to go get, I refused because I didn't want my clothes to get dirty, so he punched me right on my shoulder, and I started crying. Later that day, I saw my dad coming to pick me up when suddenly the same guy punched me again, then I started crying once more, and my dad had to take the kid to the school's office to apologize, but he didn't and the principal slapped him twice. I remember my dad telling me to not let anybody hurt me and fight back, and always inimidate the others, but I've always felt bad every time I've used his advice, so I was really confused of what was right, but I found out myself when I came here to America. They teach kids to respect each other, and that's what the whole problem was back in Iraq, a teacher would usually just stand staring at a fight between two kids, and not help to break it up.
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