Local Context
Like I said you can find bullying anywhere even here in Chicago. In a article that I read, this young high school girl was being bullied because her peers thought she a goody girl. In the article she says; “A senior at Von Steuben Metropolitan Science High School in Chicago, Witkowski quit Facebook after growing tired of classmates posting comments on her wall such as, "You're a suck-up," and, "You think you're better than everybody else" (Students assemble video on cyber bullying). This young high school girl was just moving from a different state. Sometimes the moves are pretty hard and but having to go to a new house and having to get bullied is very hard. Now she is not the only one who gets bullied. Her friend who was a freshman was also bullied. She says: "My friend was a freshman when she sent her boyfriend inappropriate pictures of herself (topless), and he sent them to everyone in the school," Witkowski said. "I felt so bad for the girl. She was ridiculed so much that she transferred schools. She had suicidal thoughts. Now she's very insecure and she doesn't trust people. I see the way the incident has changed her" (Students assemble video on cyber bullying).
Some of the ways they activists in Chicago tried to prevent this issue is by having to do a survey. The young lady Witkowski decided to do a survey to see how many people where being bullied the same way she was being bullied. The article talks about the surveys and says: “The Mikva students surveyed about 700 of their peers and found that 33 percent of those polled said they had been cyber bullied — some even dreaded going to school — and about 36 percent of the respondents admitted to engaging in some form of cyber bullying themselves” (Students assemble video on cyber bullying).
Now if students want to create a community activist project is by having people do a survey for you. People know that bullying exists but they don’t know any statistics about bullying, With accurate number people will be more interested in the project you are doing and have people join the existing organization. The numbers of bullying will be high and that will also help on keeping an eye on their children to make sure kids are not bullying or that kids are not getting bullied.
Like I said you can find bullying anywhere even here in Chicago. In a article that I read, this young high school girl was being bullied because her peers thought she a goody girl. In the article she says; “A senior at Von Steuben Metropolitan Science High School in Chicago, Witkowski quit Facebook after growing tired of classmates posting comments on her wall such as, "You're a suck-up," and, "You think you're better than everybody else" (Students assemble video on cyber bullying). This young high school girl was just moving from a different state. Sometimes the moves are pretty hard and but having to go to a new house and having to get bullied is very hard. Now she is not the only one who gets bullied. Her friend who was a freshman was also bullied. She says: "My friend was a freshman when she sent her boyfriend inappropriate pictures of herself (topless), and he sent them to everyone in the school," Witkowski said. "I felt so bad for the girl. She was ridiculed so much that she transferred schools. She had suicidal thoughts. Now she's very insecure and she doesn't trust people. I see the way the incident has changed her" (Students assemble video on cyber bullying).
Some of the ways they activists in Chicago tried to prevent this issue is by having to do a survey. The young lady Witkowski decided to do a survey to see how many people where being bullied the same way she was being bullied. The article talks about the surveys and says: “The Mikva students surveyed about 700 of their peers and found that 33 percent of those polled said they had been cyber bullied — some even dreaded going to school — and about 36 percent of the respondents admitted to engaging in some form of cyber bullying themselves” (Students assemble video on cyber bullying).
Now if students want to create a community activist project is by having people do a survey for you. People know that bullying exists but they don’t know any statistics about bullying, With accurate number people will be more interested in the project you are doing and have people join the existing organization. The numbers of bullying will be high and that will also help on keeping an eye on their children to make sure kids are not bullying or that kids are not getting bullied.