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Letter to the Editor

HCS Early College High School

2050 Hwy 501.E

Conway, SC 29526

P.O Box 261966

September 19, 2013

The Sun News

Letter to the Editor

P.O. Box 406

Myrtle Beach, SC 29578

Dear Editor-In Chief:

My name is Alexis Pratt. I am a sophomore at Early College High School in Conway, South Carolina.

I am writing to address can cyber bullying take over technical bullying. Most people say bullying can lead teens to suicide and depression. Why do teens like me go through that? Just picture a brave lost soul leaving this world with no hope because of judgmental people, how would you feel? Some people think it is okay to bully other people, but it is not because it is more difficult to have an education. I do not think teens should not go through bullying because they do not deserve it. Teens today are committing suicide because of this lack of bullying that needs to stop NOW! Teens deserve not to be bullied and be a star. DON’T BE A BULLY, BE A STAR!

Thank you so much for your time. I appreciate your help and hope to hear from you soon.

Sincerely,

Alexis Pratt

Poem- Life As A Victim

Alexis Pratt

English 2 – 4^th Block

Mrs. McKoy

9 October, 2013

Life as a Victim

Last night, I wish upon a star

Of why am I in this world so far

Punch after punch, cry after cry

I just keep asking myself and GOD WHY?

They said I look like black charcoal

And my clothes look like they came from the Salvation Army

I wish I had support, but I didn’t have

No friends to wrap their hands around me

WHY ME? Why I’m getting bullied about my dark skin

I thought I was comfortable with the skin I’m in

Skin filed with sadness and fear with dry sand

Humming for cries so bad that I thought I could not stand

On the bus, a person spit gum in my face

What a disgrace

I hide in the bathroom every day and tell myself

I don’t have any style

I knew this bullying is going to torture me for a while.

WHY ME? Why can I be like the other girls?

Pretty and confident to make my skirt twirl

As I curl over and cry wishing this can stop

“Aaahhhhhh” I screamed in the bathroom stall

I wish I haven’t went through this at all

Until I heard somebody whispering in my ear telling me “you’re beautiful”

As I listening, GOD was whispering “don’t cry, I’m here and I’ll be taking care of you!”

I looked in the mirror to look what I see

I try to scrub the dark skin off until I realize that was me

I know that black is beautiful now as I can see

Just like Alicia Keys said “don’t be mad, it’s just a brand new time for me!”

Essay- Don't Be a Bully, Be A Star !

Alexis Pratt

English II- 4^th Block

Ms. McKoy

4 September, 2013

Don’t Be a Bully, Be a Star!

       During my middle school years, I’ve experienced a lot of depression because of people bullying me. In 6^th grade, an eighth grader picked on everything I do, such as my clothing and my hairstyle and I skipped science class to go cry in the bathroom for 2 weeks. One day, I can feel her eyes just staring at me and her laughter made me so vicious that I started to fight back because I couldn’t take all the pain, suffering and her power raging over me. My life depended on it and I never thought that I wanted to commit suicide sometimes because nobody cared about me. I never thought that I had to experience getting bullied and I think no teenager should experience it at all! Bullying can affect teen’s lives because it might affect their future!

      There are facts about bullying that many people as myself didn’t know the effects of teens lives & their future. According to my research, bullying statistics, the article states that cyber bullying affects many adolescents and teens on daily bases. Technical bullying is forming of bullying that transforms thorough the internet or text messaging. Even though technical and cyber bullying in school has something in common, but cyber bullying also presents unique challenges. It also involves technology for use of social media sites to bully or harass another person. Bullying can lead to anxiety depression and even suicide!  More important including, “Fewer than 1 in 5 cyber and technical bullying incidents are reported to law enforcement!” Many teens think their wouldn’t be consequences of their actions bullying other people, but this article states that around half the teens have been victims of cyber bullying and “over 25% of adolescents and teens have been bullied repeatedly through cell phones and internet”. Meanwhile, most kids have committed suicide because of being bullied, but also Jane Smith explained that parents talk to their teens about cyber and technical bullying; explaining that it is WRONG and can have serious consequences. Make a rule that teens should tell somebody and save evidence to prove that cyber and technical bullying is occurring. If teens have been the victims or perpetuators of bullying they may need talk to a counselor or therapist to overcome depression or other harmful effects of cyber bullying. It is not an easy experience to deal with, but if it keeps on occurring, the experience of their future get worse.

      I would like to research what are more solutions can other teens to do to make cyber and technical bullying stop from occurring because I believe that it can be stopped. I also think that cyber bullying and technical bullying affecting teens lives, as my personal experience, has shown me how much cyber bullying can effect not just my life, but other teens lives and find out what can we do to make sure bullying do not  ruin teenagers lives. What can we do as a community to let teens know what are the consequences and the effects of bullying? Even though bullying is causing lives through suicide, I hope I can find out more about more types of bullying and inform bullies that bullying other people is NOT the answer to problems.