Odd Girl Out Quote Responce

School is always considered a safe place: a place or learning. It should never be considered a place students are scared to go to for fear of bullying. When a student is bullied, they begin to dread and fear going to school; They see school as an unsafe and threatening environment. 

"Bullying is a major issue in the school environment. If no one confronts it, the consequences can be dire. For the victim, school is no longer thought of as a place to learn in but a place to fear," (Kasia Metkowska, http://www.google.com/reader/view/?hl=en&tab=wy#stream/feed%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fkasiaiskesha.blogspot.com%2Ffeeds%2Fposts%2Fdefault).

Because of bullying, many different forms of school regulations prohibiting bullying and inappropriate conduct with other students have been created; such as the ASTI constitution. At ASTI, learning and gaining knowledge is critical to becoming a successful student. Bullying cannot take place. The ASTI constitution reminds students the proper ways of socializing with other students. It is extremely effective because of one thing; The students of ASTI created the constitution themselves.


At one point during my school career at ASTI, a bullying issue was taking place. Many people were bullying others and victims were being created out of the situations. This kind of behavior between students is obviously unacceptable, which is why ASTI took immediate action. So one day of the school year, all students of ASTI were called to create a fair constitution that they felt would change the way some students felt toward the school.


I feel this was an excellent plan. During this activity, many students began to realize their involvement in these bullying activities and their faults; They realized they needed to stop their inappropriate behavior. All students wrote down fair rules that would go into the ASTI constitution and in the end, ten of them were chosen and combined together to create the ASTI constitution. This changed the way many students looked toward each other; as friends instead of enemies, as students instead of idiots, as equals.


The ASTI constitution united the students of ASTI and created a strong bond that can never be broken.