"Princess Margaret Secondary School of roughly 750 students is considered bully free," expresses Darren Hogg of grade 12. Princess Margaret Secondary school is well known for being called Maggie for short and is located in the center of the beautiful Okanogan. Gage Buchanan says, "The location of our school plays a big part in keeping our precious school bully free and a great environment." "Maggie is a very high pride school and we fully support all of out sports teams and local fundraising events." "The Okanogan is so nice and an awesome place to live and it seems that everyone is always so happy and caring for others so there is no need for bullying." Although what Gage has commented for us is true, it is a new world and bullying has evolved into different types. Bullying has always been around and it will never go away.
The way technology has grown, it has changed the ways of bullying. There is still bullying but it has been going on for so long and has been such a problem that it has become more socially acceptable such as teasing. Also students are getting smarter and the internet is more widely used now then ever before. Now with social networks and chat sites such as face book and MSN, the biggest bullying problem now is cyber bullying. A tremendous contributor is cell phones. Every student now starting in grade 9-12 has their very own cell phone and with face book and updated technology makes it is so easy to get a hold of someone’s cell phone number. Bullying is now harder to recognize because it isn’t physically happening in front of us anymore and the only people that may know about the bullying problem is the bully, the victim and if the victim is brave, smart enough he will have let either his parents or a counselor or both know what’s going on.
"Maggie is such a great school, I love it here. The student body has a great mixture of people and I know from self enrollment that my grad class is very close and if there is any bullying going on in any of the grades, the grade 12's will have something to say and do about it. You just don’t see it happening anymore." says Greg Stephens, "Now we just hear about it and it’s hard to stop it." "Telling the teachers has never worked for any of my victims. They just tell the little sucker to stand up to me, but look at me, I mean I’m jacked why do you think I abuse all my power? It’s because I can. I only bully the kids that I see bullying other kids. I teach them a lesson that’s why there is no such visible bullying issue in our school."
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