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The first step to getting rid of bullying at school is to raise awareness. Everyone knows that bullying is a problem at most schools, but people fail to realize that there are many dynamics to bullying. Students bully students, teachers bully students, teachers bully teachers, and students can even bully teachers. The issue with presenting these concepts is that they are so ignored that people often roll their eyes at them. "How can a teacher be bullied by a student, that's just dumb!" "If a teacher is bullying a student they should just fire them and get it over with." "How often does this even happen? Is it really that big of an issue?" This blog is here to help answer all of those questions, and not by bombarding you with a bunch of statistics. Here, we will be using personal anecdotes in order to observe the many ways bullying can affect a school. This is for my senior exit project, but is not the actual product. My project focuses on teachers who bully students. Once I collect enough personal anecdotes, I will make a small book which I hope make copies of and hand out around my school. You don't have to be a student to submit a story (the point is to show that these issues have been present for a long time). So if you've been out of school for a long time, still submit your story. Your story can be about you being bullied, you being the bully, or you witnessing someone being bullied. Either way, every story will be anonymous and names will be changed to protect identities. If you would like to submit a story please email it to lexishootonsubclub@hotmail.com.