In the article that was read President Obama states that he was bullying in his younger years because of the name that he has and the way he looks. He says that bullying is not something that has to happen in order to get through in life. Experts say that bullying in schools creates a higher risk for students to fall behind in their studies, abuse drugs or alcohol, mental problems or other health problems. Students who are seen as different from the other kids are more susceptive to being bullied.
President Obama says that the higher up the bullying rate go the more we will see our academics dwindle compared to young people in academics in other countries. A boy in Massachusetts hung himself in 2009 because some of the kids at his school tormented him on a daily basis. President Obama says that if an atmosphere that is safe and the children can feel like they belong is what is really needed in schools to lower the bullying rate.
Some adults overlook the fact that children are bullied because they believe it is just part of the process of growing up, as stated in the articlce. President Obama says that that is not true. That in order to grow up does not mean that you have to have suffered some type of bullying in the process. He says that if death rates keep going up, as they have been because of bullying out country is going to have to make a severe change.
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