Respect & Kindness
A book Illustrated and Written By Michael Steinberg
Every day Billy would come to school in a bad mood. Billy would come to school everyday and Bully Sara to make her feel bad about her life. Billy did this to all the students so they would feel the same way Billy did when he got to school. He thought to himself, "If I cant be happy then nobody can be happy". Billy would go around the school making all of his peers feel bad so he didn't have to be the only one sad all the time. Eventually his peers learned to keep away from Billy for fear of being bullied.
After a while all of Billy's peers would stop sitting with him at lunch and Billy became lonely. After a few days alone Billy's teacher approached him and asked why he had been sitting alone for the past few days. Billy replied "Everyone else is stupid there’s nothing wrong with me I don’t care if they don't want to sit here". The teacher replied, ‘well with that attitude you will find yourself alone a lot”. The Teacher explained to Billy that if had tried to be kind to his fellow classmates he might find himself happier since he will have more of his fellow classmates respect.
The next day Billy came to school with the same upset attitude and like normal bullied his classmates to feel better. Once again at lunch Billy sat by himself and this mad Billy very angry. After lunch he began to bully the older kids at recess and it caused a commotion.
The older students began to bully Billy until he began to cry. His teacher quickly ran over to Billy to see what was wrong and when she found him crying Billy quickly said, “they were making fun of me and it made me cry!” Billy’s teacher had noticed that Billy had been bullying other students and asked him if he had provoked the older students. Billy wouldn’t reply so his teacher told him that in order to be happy in life you have to respect others in order to gain respect back from them.
After that day Billy went home and spoke to his parents about what happened at school. He explained that the teacher suggested that he learn the meaning of respect as it would help him become respected by others. Billy's mom asked him how it felt when he was bullied at school. After dinner Billy went to his room and thought about how he felt when he was being bullied and relised that it was the wrong way to deal with being upset. Billy had an idea to try and be nice to his classmates from then on.
The next few days billy went to school and tried his best to be kind to his fellow classmates. Even though he was nice to his classmates they still feared him from when he was a bully. Billy still sat by himself at lunch and played by himself duirng recess. This went on for the whole week until one day Steven aked billy to go play kickball with his friends. Billy was so happy playing kickball that he went home and told his parents. Billy said "I had so much fun going to school today I cant wait to go back tommorrow".
peers: a person of the same rank or class as another
eventually: at some later time : in the end
respect: treating others how you would want to be treated. To treat others with kindness.
commotion: noisy excitement and confusion
provokedto excite to anger or to stir up :
suggested: to put (as a thought) into a person's mind b : to propose as an idea or possibility
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