1. By: Colette and Melanie
Bullying
By: Colette and Melanie

2. What is a bully?
Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. Both kids who are bullied and who bully others may have serious, lasting problems.

3. Quotes About Bullying
“School wasn’t so bad.” I was in the first grade, and my teacher, Mrs. Cook, always chose me to read aloud when the principal came into the classroom. The other students didn’t like me very much because I was so tall and pale and skinny and always raised my hands too fast and waved frantically in the air whenever Miss Cook asked a question. A few days after I started school, four Mexican girls followed me home and jumped me near the LBJ apartments. They beat me up pretty bad, pulling my hair and tearing my clothes and calling me a teacher’s pet and a matchstick” (Walls 44).

5. Quotes About Bullying
“Brian and Laurie and Maureen and I got into more fights than most kids. Dinitia Hewitt and her friends were only the first in a whole line of little gangs who did battle with one or more of us. Other kids wanted to fight us because we had red hair, because Dad was a drunk, because we wore rags and didn’t take as many baths as we should have, because we lived in a falling-down house that was partly painted yellow and had a pit filled with garbage, because they’d go by our dark house at night and see that we couldn’t even afford electricity.” (Walls ).
reasons why Jeannette thinks her and her siblings get picked on in and out of school

7. Quotes about Bullying
“What I loved most about calling myself a reporter was that it gave me an excuse to show up anyplace. Since I’d never made a lot of friends in Welch, I hardly ever went to the school’s football games or dances or rallies. I felt awkward sitting by myself when everyone else was with friends. But when I was working for the Wave, I had a reason to be there. I was on assignment,, a member of the working press, with my notepad in hand and the Minolta around my neck” (Walls 231).
Jeannette was excluded by all people in her school, and only felt comfortable going to school event when she had a reason(related to school) to be there.

9. Quotes about Bullying
“The main source of relief from the heat for the kids in Welch was the public swimming pool, down by the railroad tracks near the Esso station. Brian and I had gone swimming once, but Ernie Goad and his friends were there, and they started telling everybody that we Wallses lived in garbage and would stink up the pool or something awful” (Walls ).
another instance where Ernie Goad is being nasty to the Walls kids