Have you ever been under peer pressure? I have. I think peer pressure is the most persuasive method. Three methods are friendly, heavy, and indirect.

First I'm going to tell you about friendly peer pressure. Friendly peer pressure is when someone persuades me to do a good thing. When I tell
someone, ''Please help me do my homework I don't get this.” Friendly peer pressure is o.k., but I don't like this next one.

I'm going to tell you about heavy peer pressure now. Heavy peer pressure is when I tell someone, ''I bet you’re chicken, buck bock, you’re chicken wait 'till I tell everyone you're a chicken.'' So if I were you, I wouldn't say something like that. It could convince them, but you might convince them to do the wrong thing........or not.

Finally there’s indirect peer pressure. Indirect peer pressure is when I say, ''Come on everyone's going to be there.'' It's usually not true. Most of the time you should say no to indirect peer pressure.

In conclusion, peer pressure is mostly bad. Deputy Rieder taught us some very valuable stuff. So now you now you know to say ''no'' to most peer pressure.

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