Want to hear a hilarious joke that will cause a major organ in your body to rupture because of how much you’ll laugh?
The Bullying Tip Box in the library.
I’d bet my iPhone that half the people reading this didn’t even know KHS had one. For the uninformed majority, the box was created two years ago for students to anonymously place names of people they felt threatened by. But who cares anyway, because bullying is a joke, right?
Clearly KHS students do not care about the tip box, since according to Mike Wade, junior class principal, 9 out of 10 people who use the box put the name of a friend in because they simply feel like it. That’s okay, because it is extremely amusing. But the librarians take it very seriously when they send the names off to the grade-level principals. How annoying, since it was just for kicks.
The principals don’t find bullying very entertaining either. Havener or another administrator will confront the bully and they will probably end up denying the whole thing since the one bullying obviously doesn’t find abuse wrong.
Wait, the tip box is actually taken very seriously by the 1-in-10 students who put a name in there because they genuinely feel bullied by a peer. And rightly so, since the effects that come along with being a victim is feeling unsafe at KHS and too alone to be academically successful. Even 1-in-10 students drop out of high school due to bullies, according to the dosomething.org National Bully Project.
Even though those 9-in-10 people find the bullying tip box gut-wrenchingly funny, according to the National Bully Project, a victim is twice as likely to take their own life because of the harassment. Try to turn that into a joke now.
Click here for signs on whether or not a friend is affected by bullying.
