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School Consequences
School is not as easy as people think school. It is not just all fun and games, like playing soccer on the playground. School comes with many consequences that everyone has to face; there is school bullying, trying to fit in, making friends, and much more. It is hard on kids. I am not saying school is a bad thing or anything like that, but it can be rough sometimes. I personally feel strongly about this, and it has pushed me to write a paper on the school consequences of everyday life. Here are the examples below.

 A school consequence I confronted was a particular teacher's rule: if you did not bring in your homework, you had to stay inside during recess to finish it. So one day during math class, the teacher told everyone to take out their math homework. I was going through my folder, knowing I did it, just thinking I put it somewhere in the back. Just then, I remembered I left it on my desk; I could picture in my mind that it was right next to my pencil case. I told the teacher I forgot it. She told me to just look over my neighbor's paper and to finish it at recess; I knew she believed that I did my homework. She said, however, that “she thought it was best for me just to get it over with.” I wanted to tell her that I could bring it in tomorrow, but I was not going to argue with the teacher, so I sat back down in my chair. I really thought she would let me slide. I was a good student, and I did my homework. I felt that I could just look at Jessica’s paper, but //no,// I had to stay in, while everybody else got to play hide and go seek tag. I loved that game, plus it was the only game I was good at. I was stuck inside the classroom, all alone doing my math homework! I just finished a book called //Boy// by Roald Dahl in English, and even as a kid he had school consequence too.

In the book //Boy////__,__// Roald had the consequence of having to change school after school, making new friends, adjusting to his new environment, and living by the different rules. The first school Roald went to was an all boy's school called the Llandaff Cathedral School. So far, Roald hadn’t got in trouble; therefore, he never really knew how mean the teachers really were, until going to Llandaff. One day, Roald and his friends wanted to play a joke on mean old Ms. Pratchett, who ran their favorite candy shop and was not very good at that job. They decided to put a dead mouse in one of the candy jars, but sadly they were caught. The headmaster beat all of them with a cane until their bottoms were red. When Roald got home, he told his mother what happened, and she was not going to put up with this. She decided to send him boarding school.

At boarding school, a lot of things were different. For example, they didn’t have very good food there. The teachers were very strict. For example, the matron there would put soap shaving in you mouth if you snored to loud, or if she just didn’t like you. The next school was called Marlborough and Repton. At Repton, there were these boys called boazers. These were the older kids who could boss around the younger kids. They would make you clean all their things up, like their bedroom and bathrooms; they could even make the younger kids go outside in their pajamas while it was snowing! As you can tell, all these schools were very different, and it really was difficult to get adjusted to the costume of each school. Learning different ways was tough, but somethings were easier then others.

Another school consequence is bullying. According to http://kamaron.org/Cyber-Bullying-Articles-Facts, every year thousands of kids commit suicide, because they are being bullied so badly they just can’t take it anymore. It also says kids are not just bullied during recces but on bus, during gym, and when eating lunch in the cafeteria. Everybody seems to think that there is only physical bulling. Research suggests, however, that only 30 percent is physical bullying . Most bullying, approximately 40% is verbal bullying, such as name-calling and making fun of other kid’s culture or religion. 18.5% counts for indirect bullying, which includes spreading rumors and / or stories about someone. Also, there is intimidation bullying, when a bully threatens to hurt them, so they will do something for them. This isn’t everything, there is more and more ways of bullying. For example, one of the biggest ways of bullying now is cyber bullying; it is when people talk about someone online, or through text messaging. It is growing more and more, now that technology is around the world.

Still, millions of kids are being bullied like Roald Dahl. Things could get worse than now, and we have to stop bullying! The only reason people do it is just to make themselves feel better. Now what will you do to stop and end to this? We need everybody to help, we can get to save children, and make them feel safer in school.

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