Seventh e-reflection

           After discussing about violence, bullying and aggressive behavior in school context, I realized how dangerous those things could lead into. Perhaps student never thought that those kind of acts could harm others. Since they might not realize that they had done those acts. For example verbal bullying, student mocks one to have fun. They might also think that verbal bullying could increase intimacy between friends. They did not know that what they did is bullying.

            Come to think about bullying, I remember in my old days at Junior High School, I had a friend who treated bad by others. Without realizing what they did, almost all boys in my school did verbal bullying to her. She was a newcomer student, perhaps her appearance and attitude made others teased and mocked her. Well, she was a white skin girl with acne all over her face. She always talked about different boys she liked whom changed every week. So if this week she liked A, next week she would head over heels for B. I guess the reason why she was not that close with other girl was because we were in the seventh grade, and most of the girls did not really thought about opposite sex at twelve years old.

            Even though in school we had changing rooms, she always changed alone in the restroom. It started a rumor that she changed alone because she had acne all over her bodies. Since that time, all boys in my school called her virus or germ every time they saw her. They even did not want to touch her or her belongings. When my teacher asked someone to distribute papers or return homework, the distributor would throw away her books or paper. They said “disgusting, it is contaminated.”

            I thought others student way of treating her influenced her somehow. She was ostracized by other student, no one wanted to be in the same group with her. In our school there was black book which collecting points of students’ mistakes. Once the points reached one hundred she or he would be expelled. That girl always made mistake on purpose everyday so she would get points. In the end of school year she was transferred to other school.

            Her case gave me real life example how bullying could change someone life in a bad way. So it is better to think before you act.