When it comes to children wearing glasses there are some real shockers out there, trust me. There are so many children that find it hard to see why they are being picked on for this reason and do not wish to wear their glasses because they feel uncomfortable?
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 based on the general figures. 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
- Half of all children do not actually wear their glasses when they are supposed too
- 50% of children that wear glasses are called names.
Some of these figures are crazy, they make you realise how big the problem is. The first step to take against bullying is to ask the bullies to stop doing it, this is a great because you are encouraging your children to do things for themselves. If this isnt working the next step is to ask your child to stand up for themselves. The bullies are not clever, play on this to win. 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.