High School Graduation Speech: It's Time To Stop Bullying

There was once this boy named kyle, one day he was walking home from school which he looked like he was carrying ALL of his books. Then there was a group of kids that ran toward him and knocked the books out of his hands a tripping him so he landed face first in the dirt. The kid that witnessed what happened saw terrible sadness in kyle's eyes. So he jogged over to him and handed kyle his glasses and helped pick up his books. “Hey, thanks!” Kyle said with a big smile on his face. It was one of those smiles that showed great gratitude.

The two of them became really close friends. High School graduation came rolling by and kyle gave a speech. As he started his speech, he cleared his throat, and began. “Graduation is a time to thank those who

More teenagers and young adults die from suicide than from cancer, heart disease, AIDS, birth defects, strokes, pneumonia, influenza, and chronic lung disease, COMBINED. Everyday in our nation, there are an average of over 3,470 attempts by young people grades nine through twelve. if these percentages were added to grades seven and eight, the numbers would be even higher...3 Therefore there is a lot of victims being bullied physically mentally, verbally and cyber. More than 3.2 million students get bullied each year, and 20% (160,000) of the victims are teens, they get bullied to the point where they don't even go to school. According to a study by ABC News over 30,000 children stay home every day due to the fear of being bullied. Bullying can be related to physical, emotional, cyber bullying...2 people don't really tend to notice all the harsh and mean and unkind comments...71% of students incidents of bullying as a problem at their school. As boys start to get older they are less and less likely to feel sympathy for people who are being bullied. Instead of solving the problem, boys are more likely to add toit. But 10 to 14 year old girls may be at an even higher risk for suicide…. 1 A person who you seen got the books knocked out of their hand by someone, and their papers went everywhere, and a lot of people were laughing. That person walked away feeling embarrassed and hurt.. While

It's that simple. People seem to judge people by their looks, They never really take the time to get to know the person. Someone might have had a bad morning or a bad night, but they would still come to school and act like nothing ever happens. And people would bring them down even more than they already are. Never judge someone, especially if you don't know them because you have no idea what they are going through. And for all you know your words could be the last thing they'll ever hear. So think before you speak and if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at