Bullying laws must be enforced. Over 53% of teens have been hurt by someone at their school (Parks, 49). It's not just kids being kids, it actually has immense side effects on kids. Parents don't realize how serious a child's situation is until they end up hurting themselves due to bullying. Most states care more about student safety. If schools paid less attention to tests and focused more on students, then there would be less bullying. We need bullying laws because without them teenagers face agony, depression and suicide. Children who face bullying tend to live with immense mental or physical difficulties known as agony. “Bullying can worsen the mental health of adolescents who are already dealing with stress” (Parks, 49). Parents tend to think that students don't have to deal with stress, yet it all adds up and bullying only makes things worse. No matter how much or how much children are bullied, it will still cause pain and suffering. Children live every day thinking that they are the reason they are being bullied, but in reality it is usually only the bully who has the problem. Usually the child is bullied because the person who bullies him just wants attention or is jealous of something the other person involves (bullying). Bullying for these children will never stop. Maybe the bullies will stop, but they will always have the fear of not being "good enough". “It destroyed me. I started to believe what was said. I was ugly. I was a monster. I was unwanted, unloved, unnecessary. I'm still struggling with those today” (Goldman, 105). The adult in this quote explains how he still deals with the struggle he faced when he was a teenager. Whenever you're always dealing with constantly being pushed down, ... middle of the paper ... we need to be enforced in all schools; Teens' grades would go up if they weren't bullied like they are now. Teens tend to improve their grades when they care about class instead of being bullied. Bullying in schools started around the 1970s and is still going on (school bullying). School districts should have tried to stop this bullying a long time ago. Only a few states have tried to stop this bullying, but many have simply let it go. There are immense side effects on these bullied children and no one seems to care. Children don't just feel pain from being bullied, they feel pain because no one helps them. If all these schools stopped worrying about testing, maybe there would be more kids who aren't bullied. All countries must have laws to prevent this bullying before it becomes even worse than it already is.