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Bullying- Natalie Meller

“Each school is committed to a safe and respectful educational environment for all students, employees, volunteers and patrons free from harassment, intimidation, or bullying.” RCW (Revised Code of Washington) 9A.36.080(3). Bullying can come in many forms: Physical, Verbal, Social, Psychological, Electronic or Cyber, Racial, Religious, Sexual and Disabilities.

A bully is a person that uses a certain power he has, to embarrass, humiliate, threaten, or cause some form of harm to another student. Every student has the right to feel safe coming to school. This right is taken by the student when someone bullies him. Our school encourages students to speak up and come to the principal or the counselor and talk about it.

At WBAIS there are strategies in place to prevent bullying and address bullying when it occurs. Mr. Waldman our Middle school principal says, that each story has two sides, “My job is first to see both sides of the story, and then act, there is a reason for everything”. The school will use different strategies for each case. In order to get to the story they will try to get to the source of the problem.

After doing all of this, the school will include the parents, speak to the students about the consequences and will probably punish the students that took part in it with suspension or even expulsion (they didn’t expel anyone yet).

In my opinion our school takes bullying very seriously. They will want to educate us, the students, so that the bullying will not occur but also punish the students that bully. I think that they will prefer to teach us not to bully before punishing us for doing that. It is more important to learn from mistakes that other did, or yourself, than getting punished for mistakes that you didn’t know were mistakes!

In order to address the many issues that bullying represent, the principal, teachers, counselor, students and parents all have a role. First make the students understand what bullying means. Then have certain rules that every student is aware of. The students should know how to behave when they can see bullying occurs and especially when they are a part of it.

Unfortunately, bullying happens all the time, the consequences to this behavior can end really bad or make the victim stronger. In either way bullying should not be tolerated. Those that bully should be the ones ashamed they spend so much time on making someone else miserable and can’t see that it is makes them miserable too. Over 3.2 million students are victims of bullying each year and approximately 160,000 teens skip school every day because of bullying in the US. In order to stop bullying all over the world, we all must be active, as Theodore Roosevelt once said “Knowing what is right does not mean much unless you do what is right”.

Fable About The Lion And His Land

            

Fable About The Lion And His Land-

By Natalie Meller

Once upon a time, In a land far away, a lion called Lolo ruled the kingdom. He ruled the kingdom of the animals. But with very strict rules. Each animal was afraid from him and they did whatever he wanted without arguing. All from fear. They had different jobs and work to do, Lolo decided what they do based on what he thought of them. The mice were in charge of making the lions clothes, the crocodiles were in charge of letting in and out only the animals that have permission, the cows were the ones that were preparing food and the birds were sending messages to other countries… they never got to see the other animals.

“From this day, until I say so all kids are not going to school”  Lolo the lion said “oh and they are also going to help their parents with their jobs” he shouted. The parents were really angry but they were too afraid to tell anyone that they are mad because if Lolo hears about it he could do some really bad things to them… Then Ivy the mouse that had to take care of twelve little kids now couldn’t let Lolo do that to her or to the other parents. She called the mice for an emergency meeting. She told all of them about her concerns, she said that she want to stop Lolo from not thinking about them and only about himself. “ We will never do something against Lolo and even if we do want to, how can a bunch of little mice win one big lion like Lolo?” a muse said. “But if you can make the other animals do that then we won’t be the ones to stop you.” Ivy decided to go and talk to the other animals and see what they have to say but each one of them had a different excuse for why not.

A few months later Lolo the lion started doing even more horrible things, he took  some of their money and made them work harder. But the worst thing was the day he decided to take a-l-l of their smart phones. In that moment the whole land said ,“enough, we can’t take this anymore”.

The next day every animal except for Robi the fox (that was sick) came to Ivy the mouse. “We can’t let him do it to us”, said Ivy “He thinks he can control our lives” she continued, “I don’t want my kids to grow and be scared like me every day”, she finished. They talked a lot and decided to use the only power they had and take Lolo down. The next week each animal did her job wrong but it wasn’t a mistake they wanted to make him understand that they are not necessarily his followers. The mice kept on making his clothes but let their little kids eat some of it before giving it to Lolo, the crocodiles didn’t pay attention to who is coming in and out, The cows ‘forgot’ to put spices in the food, and the birds delivered the wrong messages to other countries. Every animal without exception did the work improperly.

After a while Lolo called every one to the main square. “My dear citizens,” he never used words like that. “In the past few months I realised I ruled the kingdom harshly. I took the power I had and used it badly, used it for my own good.” No one was ready for something like that! “I feel like I don’t deserve my power and what I have” Most of them knew where he is going but couldn’t believe it. “I can’t rule this kingdom anymore and I’m giving you the power  

And they lived happily ever after… The end

moral: Little people can make big impacts and change the world. If they use the power they have (even if it is small) wisely.