I have recently come across some pretty shocking figures when it comes to how children that wear glasses feel. Many of them do not understand why they are being picked on and so many of them also want to not use their glasses anymore simply because they are being bullied, but why is this?
Although everyone with glasses is not smart, not by any means at all in fact, it would seem that bullies tend to target the really clever ones. This is on the whole anyway. The reason that kids do this is because they know the geekier kids are a lot cleverer than them and they also know they are more superior than them. However many of the geeky children do not have the confidence they need to stop bulling from occurring.
Important figures
• 20% if children have seen classmates actually skip one or more day of school because of bullying they received when it came to glasses.
1/4 of all children are upset about their glasses because they have to wear them to school
Just over half of all children do not wear the glasses when they are meant to
Once again half of the children that wear glasses are called names.
These are shocking figures that should really bring home the issue. If your child is being bullied because of their glasses you should first ask them to tell the bullies to stop it. If this isnt working the next step is to ask your child to stand up for themselves. Most bullies are not smart at all, use this. Failing all of this just go into the school and make a note of speaking to the head about it as this will get results.
So when you think glasses don’t always think cool police glasses and aviator glasses, think about the normal people that wear cheap glasses.
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