Have you ever seen an anti-bullying poster when you walked down the halls of your school? Or maybe on your way to a club and you saw a billboard stating the information for an anti-protest to bullying?

Well, according to a study at One World Education, every state in the U.S. has anti-bullying laws. The people who state anti-bullying helps decrease bullying are usually the ones who have come in contact with a bullied person or have known of a program that benefited them or someone they knew in a positive way.

As most programs do decrease bullying, they also can give the bullies an advantage on the kids they bully. According to Amanda Oglesby, “Bullies may simply choose not to practice prevention techniques, or perhaps, learned more effective bullying techniques through the programs.”

This shows that anti-bullying techniques aren’t as effective as they are intended to be and instead schools should work on a way to stop bullying rather than just putting up posters and hoping the bullies will see them. For most effective programs, schools should invite the bully into the program so they can see what the students have gone through. Because the problem isn’t the bully — it’s the bullies’ bully and that’s who we need to stand up for.

WYATT WARNER

Hayden