Students sound-off

There's been a lot in the news here and here  about how students treat one another at school and the consequences of their bullying.   This is what one of our students had to say on his English blog.

Bullying is a prevalent form of child abuse. Many students are suffering from bullying in their schools and this thing is common in all schools in the world. Also bullying can cause death like what happened in Oikos University in Oakland, California. Some people in this university were teasing a Korean man called One L. Goh over his poor English skills. Because of this bad behavior with this man, he forced some people to line up in a classroom in the university, but some of them didn’t , so he started shooting them with his hand gun and killed seven people last week on Monday (April 2, 2012). Someone commented that this Korean man doesn’t need to be remorseful because the bullied person may keep feeling bad forever, which is right in my opinion; however, I don’t think teasing or bullying should lead to death. Also this person commented that if a person teased another person, over time the person who teased would not feel remorse and I agree with him on this. The lesson that I learned is that bullying and teasing are very bad behaviors that can lead to serious risks and we have to respect everybody.