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Together
Posted: 7/8/2015
When you first meet someone you don't know what to think
But once a friend their always one
That's what I used to think
Then one day 'it' started
The name calling
The push talking
The ruff tumble
And it was just me
She was my mate
Now I was filled with hate
And it was just me
No-one wanted to be involved
They all looked away and followed her example
Afraid to stand up
Tall and proud
And not be afraid
To fall down
And it was just me
Growing up your told
Tell on the bully
Don't let them defeat you
But then YOUR there
Filled with threats, bets
Dancing around your head
And it was just me
You want to tell
But then you remember like the ring of a bell
Tell and I'll bully you more, and I'll never, ever stop
And it was just me
You stand up
They push you down
With a hand on your chest
The serpent strikes
And it was just me
I went home crying
Thought I was dying
From pain
From hatred
From the bully
And it was just me
Then I visited PACER
And I thought
If you don't fit in, you stand out
A target
A wasp in a bee hive
But that's not a bad thing
You may be nicer
More caring
YOU have to defeat them
The jealous people
Hand in hand
The victims
The pain
The suffering
UNITED
And together we CAN stop them
Because together we CAN do anything
And in an instant
It wasn't just me anymore
It was US
And I wasn't the only one
We will stop bullying
Because it IS all of us
TOGETHER CHANGING THE WORLD
By: Heather
Depression
Posted: 6/17/2015
Getting bullied is hurtful, scary and depressing. People used to call me fat and swear words. One time in the playground, I was eating my snack and a girl took my lunchbox and put it in the bin and then said " Hey Olivia, we’re playing hide the lunchbox! I’ll give you a hint: It’s dirty and very smelly!" And I knew it must be the bin so I had to put my arm in the bin to get my lunchbox and I was very upset but I didn’t want to tell the teacher because I thought the girl would be even more mean to me. My mistake here was not telling a teacher or adult; don’t make the same mistake.
By: Olivia
Charly - Everybody's Pretty When They're 18
Posted: 6/9/2015
You don't know what you want too many choices but you gotta choose one
Can't trust your feet to know which way to turn when the crossroads come
Pre
You know sometimes you'll get things wrong but if you want it you've gotta hold on
When they bring you down or leave you out and your whole world crashes down don't you worry Cuz
Chorus
Everybody's pretty when they're 18
You don't need to think carefully your full of Gonna Be's
And what you touch turns to gold dust
And everything you want is right there
You're gonna look back when your 19
It was so embarrassing and now you know everything
Like how to restart a broken heart when they made you feel like you weren't good enough
But Everybody's pretty, everybody's pretty when they're 18
Verse
Insecure, afraid that everybody talks behind your back
Your hair, your clothes they analyze your style like its something you lack
So turn on your heel they ain't gonna steal
All the beauty inside you that you don't see
The day will come
They'll find out they were wrong
So don't forget who you are and who you will become
Bridge
Ain't nobody perfect
It don't matter how hard you try
All that counts is your heart is on fire
And times gonna show you that
Sticks and stones can strengthen your bones
You were never really alone
Chorus
By: Charly
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Bullying Needs to End Now
Posted: 6/1/2015
Bullying has been a major problem in America’s schools for many years and it has gotten worse as the years went by. This is an issue that I care so deeply about because I was bullied and teased constantly in school from Kindergarten to the twelve grade. It wasn’t easy to go through what I went through in regular school. Every year I was teased and bullied on a daily basis from Monday to Friday. I had to endure a lot in school from the name calling, physical abuse, and mental abuse. At times I felt like I was alone and that no one cared about me because of what I was going through.
What helped me to get through this ordeal was that I had my mother to talk to me and encourage me. I also had other people such as teachers and principals to help guide me and make me feel better. Despite of all what I went through in school I still manage to make it. I say this to make a point that a lot needs to be done to stop bullying and cyber bullying that is going on in our nation’s schools. It’s not fair and it’s not right that any young person should have to go school and get teased and bullied. No young person should be afraid of going to school knowing that they are going to bullied.
I don’t want any young person to go through what I had to endure when I went to regular school. Bullying needs to be addressed much more in our nation’s schools, churches, and communities. The issue of bullying has too long been overlooked in the news and media and that needs to stop. There is a lot that teachers, principals, school officials and other educators can do to address the issue of bullying and try to stop it from going on by any means necessary. There is so much that parents can do to address bullying. There is so much that we as a community can do to help address bullying. Everyone must stand up and try to put an end to all bullying and cyber bullying going on in America’s schools.
By: Daryl
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Zumbathon to Stomp Out Bullying!
Posted: 6/1/2015
“When my daughter was only 11-years-old, she tried to commit suicide after being bullied, physically and mentally, both at school on line. This event is her idea and she’s excited to bring awareness and share her story,“ said Hazel, the girl’s mother.
October is National Bullying Prevention Month and it’s time to show you care about this important cause. Wear your best orange (the color of bullying prevention) outfit and grab a spot on the dance floor for two hours of non-stop fun and all for a great cause.
Event details:
- Join us at Snellville United Methodist Church, in Snellville, Georgia on Saturday, October 3rd from 10 am to noon.
- Donation request is a minimum of $10 with the exception of younger children.
- Funds will go directly to benefit PACER’s National Bullying Prevention Center.
- There will be guest speakers, raffles for big prizes, door prizes and more!
- Learn more at the Facebook page Zumbathon to Stomp Out Bullying!
By: Anonymous
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Stop It
Posted: 5/27/2015
Hi, I’m almost 14, Polish girl and this is my story. I’ve always been really shy. When I was in kindergarden, I had a lot of friends actually, but also there was a one girl that I was afraid of. She wasn’t doing anything to me, but I was just scared. Then, when I stared school when I was 7, I was a lot more confident. I had a lot of friends and I wasn’t care about this girl that was in my kindergarden and now she’s in the same class as me. And then I started 6th grade. Things starts to be a lot more harder to me. This girl is really popular in my school. A lot of people hate her, but no one ever said her h ow rude and mean to others she is. Anyways. I’m really trying to ignore her but it doesn’t work. Everytime I’m hearing that she’s talking about me, I want to cry. When she walking in the way I’m in, I’m walking away. When she’s staring at me during the lesson, I’m trying to act like I’m not seeing her and I’m writing something in my notebook. She’s always like "Why are walking away? Why are you can’t stop writing? Why are you’re hiding from me?", she’s saying that while laughing and making fun of me, because she knows that I feel uncomfortable and sad. That not all of what she’s doing but it’s not that important right now. I’ve always wanted to ask her, why she’s doing that to me. I it really that funny? Even if I’m only standing, sitting, fixing my hair or even talk to my closest friend, she could laugh at it. Everyone who knows it are saying that I need to tell the teacher or my parents. But what if she will find out and turn my last days of school into hell? People are saying ‘Just ignore her, she’ll get bored about it’, but it doesn’t work. Now, I’m having social anxiety because of her Now, I’m even trying to not sleep, because I know that tomorrow is next day, and another reason to cry. Bullies from all of the world needs to know how painful their words are, and realize that’s not cool when you’re bullying someone who is more shy or just diffrent. That all needs to stop…
By: Anonymous
Bullying in My Life
Posted: 5/19/2015
Hi my name is Miranda, and I’m 15 and this is my bullying story. Ever since I can remember, I’ve been bullied for something; Me being so called ‘fat’, me not being the way they had wanted me to in general. Third grade is really when it all had started. I moved around a lot as a kid so when I came to that school half way through third grade I figured it would be a new start for me. Boy was I wrong! A few weeks after I had started there, I started getting picked on by these groups of girls (and boys too) for not being what they wanted me to be. They told me I was fat, a nerd, and that I was the teacher’s pet. Fast forward from 3rd grade to when I was in 5th grade at the same school. Things had relatively stopped all until one day when the same girl who had bullied me in 3rd grade had pushed me into a bookcase. It hurt when she did it then I began to wonder, why would she do that? Later on after I had moved away I found out it was because she just about had enough with me.
As stated earlier, I moved around a lot as a kid. So when I had moved towards the end of 6th grade to a completely different town, I figured again that it would be a fresh start and that I wouldn’t get bullied. And for a little bit, I was right. Everything went really smoothly and I had made some new friends along the way. When there was a few weeks left in the school year is when things started to get really bad. Maybe I set somebody off but there was this one boy who decided it was his mission to make my life there at school miserable. He tried to break my fingers in my locker when they were in the locker door by slamming the locker door shut on them. Thankfully I had pulled them out in time. He also would slam all my books to the ground, and once he tried to push me down a short flight of stairs in my school. Again, I was able to catch myself on the hand railing before anything was done. Of course he would call me the typical names; fat, slut, teacher’s pet.
After 6th grade there wasn’t really any bullying because he had been moved to a different part of the school so I never saw him again. Now here comes the time of my Freshman year in high school where it was without a doubt the climax of all this bullying. There is one class, World History where it had really all started back up again. There was this one guy in my class, and he would constantly berate me. This was the point where I first had gotten glasses so now I started getting called Four-eyes. Also at this point, I was having some personal stuff going on in my family, and somehow this kid knew about these issues. He had started making fun of me because of these issues in the middle of class. Then he would always mock my appearance because again I wasn’t exactly a skinny girl at this point. Since we’re in middle school though, the names had gotten much nastier like whore, skank, and so on. That issue with that kid had stopped when someone in my class (who I still don’t know) had gone to the dean’s office and told somebody. Then it was peaceful for a few months again until it had picked up again in the 2nd semester of my freshman year. In my gym class, there are these group of four guys who are the class troublemakers. They do nothing but cause stress to the teacher, who is retiring at the end of this school year. I started helping her out and just being a nice person. This entailed that if these group of four boys were doing something really bad, I would tell her so she could handle it accordingly. These boys had eventually found out I was doing this so they started calling me a snitch every time they saw me. Things like “hey look, it’s the f’ing snitch” and “snitches get stitches” would be told to me along with name calling as well. After one of these kids had screamed and yelled in my face in the middle of gym class, I started crying in the middle of gym class. Now before when kids would call me these names and do what they were doing to me, I could usually hold it in til I got home and then I would cry my eyes out upstairs where no one was able to hear me. People like them started to make me wonder why I was getting bullied? I mean was it something I was doing that was causing them to constantly tear me down? Was there something wrong with me? These thoughts and my emotions would be concealed by what I would like to call ‘my mask’. I would act like I wasn’t hurt and I was this brick wall that nothing could break through. That worked until that day in gym that I had previously had stated before. My days started getting rougher and rougher, but slowly my friends were backing me up, especially the ones in school. There were two kids in particular in the school, and in my gym class. They are Sophomores and one’s a girl the other is a boy. They really started helping me and were there for me during school. They made me feel safe and secure, knowing that nothing would happen to me during the day. They became part of my ‘family’.
I’m not going to lie, I’m still getting partially bullied as I am writing this to you guys. I may never stop being bullied, who knows. But I do know one thing, if you find the right people that will always be there for you no matter what and will stick by your side through thick and thin, it makes life in bullying a lot easier. I’m one voice out of millions who are being bullied, but all you need is one success story of someone who is properly dealing with bullying, and it starts a chain reaction of people who want to make a change in their lives and stand up for themselves.
By: Miranda
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‘You Can Sit With Us’
Posted: 5/7/2015
While talking about kindness during class, 13 eighth grade girls discussed bullying and ways they could make an impact. They decided they would always stand up against bullying and wanted to take further action. From this discussion, the idea of raising money for a bullying prevention organization with a T-shirt sale was born. Each week, the girls spent time during class to create the shirt. As a group, they decided on the slogan “You can sit with us,” with a peace sign on the back. Each girl shared a word that described kindness, which was placed within the peace sign. Words included: strong, brave, confident, inviting, optimistic and supportive. Every week, the girls continued to discuss bullying and kindness, searching for new ways to improve their community. They will be selling the shirts during lunch hour and hope to see every student at their school wearing this message of kindness!
By: Anonymous
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Unbelieveable
Posted: 4/30/2015
When I was in elementary school I was picked on like you wouldn't believe, and it's something that I had to go through my entire elementary school career. I was constantly ignored, no one wanted to be friends with me. I remember when I tried sitting at the lunch table with a bunch of other kids they would always move away from me. It really gave me sort of a depressing feeling inside like no one wanted to be near me. There were times to when I was told by quite a few kids to my face that “No one wanted to hangout with me”, because of this that and the other. I am kinda glad that I don't remember some of the stuff they said back in elementary but what I do know is whenever I would report them to the principle's office they would not care and tell me to ignore them or blame me because I did something wrong when I never did.
Middle school was probably the worst time of my schooling career. I remember one time after a gym class I was going to the locker room to change into my school clothes and all of a sudden this random kid takes my hat away. All of a sudden he starts dragging me to the shower and starts punching me everywhere. He eventually knocks off my cochlear implant the most essential part of my everyday living. Without it hearing with just my hearing aid is very uncomforable and we wouldn't be able to afford $6000 to replace it. After the bell rings the kid stops punching me. The bell rings I am on the ground for a few minutes, then I get up go to my guidance councilor's office. Long story short they wouldn't do anything about it. They told me it's the end of the day and they would deal with it the next day. My mom picked me up I told her what happened, long story short I had to write a police report, next day kid gets suspended for just one day! My thought was unbelievable.
My first year of high school wasn't bad I went to a new High School. But my sophmore year was really bad I was targeted at school and online by kids. A girl from school that set me up online. It was another person I liked and she sent me a message saying that she liked me when she really didn't. She was pulling me a long by saying that I really liked you and I wanted to date you all that stuff that I thought was true really wasn't. I got very emotionally upset because here I thought this person really liked me and it was all a joke by her and her friends.
I was very impressed by Luna Lovegood's Ideals. It seems she had the ability to develop a hard shell towards individuals who had negative things to say about her. This is a great skill I wish I knew how to master when I was in her shoes, as a victim if bullying...... I read that she is very trusting, and never has betrayed any of her friends. I grasped this information from reading. It seems that that she cares about kids, people, and the world in general.
By: Corey
Breaking the Silence
Posted: 4/27/2015
Jess, is the owner of Positively Oakes, a Motherhood and Children’s Lifestyle Blog over at PositivelyOakes.com . Here she shares her story and experience of bullying behavior first hand.
“ I remember we were all playing around with cheer stunts and I wanted so badly to be a flyer for fun, I asked and asked and these girls ignored me for a while (common) but finally after they all got a turn, I was heard! I was so excited! I had flown before and knew exactly what to do! The first time we did just a basic stunt and I was feeling pretty good, I nailed it. Then the girls said why don’t you try a harder stunt? So I thought why not, they’re talking to me, they’re encouraging me, I went up and tried to hit this stunt, we tried this a couple of times and then finally I hit it for half a second or so but then came crumbling down. Well the entire point of the bases and the back spot is to catch the flyer, right? Well my bases tried to catch me, but my entire left side fell right through their arms. This wasn’t a big deal, I wasn’t hurt and I knew it was probably an accident, I had made such accidents before as well, it happens! But here is where it took a turn for the worse, and now looking back I realize how incredibly wrong it was, the girls started whispering, things were said, and the worst thing that was said that I could hear was, “she’s too heavy to fly, I could barely hold her up.” My name is Jessica and I was a target of bullying.”
By: Jess
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