“Dear Bully” is definitely not your stereotypical book about childhood bullying. With Unity Day, a day in which bullying awareness is placed in the spotlight, having taken place on Oct. 23, the NPHS Library offered a selection of books on the topic of bullying. While viewing the catalog, I became intrigued by a book…
“It was one of those things where playful teasing slowly developed into more psychological abuse and it eventually developed to the point where it got physical,” Jeancarlo Yela, junior, said, describing his past experiences with bullying in elementary school. “I would end up getting beaten almost every day; they would say, ‘Oh if you…
Yik Yak has become the most popular app used for all the wrong reasons. Useful for cyber bullying, one cannot scroll down more than four anonymous “yaks,” without seeing a nasty comment posted towards another. Yik Yak was first released in November of 2013 and quickly became one of the most downloaded apps in the…