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Bullying and Cyberbullying

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#1 ·
I see this happens a lot in the US just as it does in other countrirs. Apparently a bill was supposed to be drafted 9 months ago.

Too many countries are sitting on their collective behinds on this one.. Many will ask where are the parents of the little snots who behave this way?

I would venture that it is the parents in many cases that are in fact "showing the way" and setting the example from what I see on so many sites.


Boston, MA.

The story of Massachusetts high school student Phoebe Prince's death is waking up lawmakers on Beacon Hill.


The freshman at South Hadley High School died Jan. 14. and two students accused of bullying the15-year-old have been punished.

According to the principal, Prince, who had recently moved to western Massachusetts from Ireland, was harassed through texting and Facebook entries by a clique of girls.

Whether she committed suicide because of all the taunting police are still investigating. About 200 students held a vigil the night after Prince died and several web tribute pages for her popped up Facebook. Most of the messages were positive but others were cruel had to be taken down.

Many legislators are feeling more pressure to do something to stop bullying before another child commits suicide.

For months, lawmakers have been working on an anti-bullying bill some say it should finally head to the House and Senate sometime next week. Meanwhile the school formed a task force to examine the bullying issue.
 
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#71 ·
I'd join that group, I try to keep phonecalls to a minimum. Had a conversation once that lasted 24 secs, not joking as I looked at the phone to check. Just worked up a load of courage to call the insurance company.
 
#73 ·
Also I feel uncomfortable if I have to phone someone (excluding my parents and the most closest friends).

Same goes with letting people to come close to me, even I've turned more open recently. Turning more open is also something that needs to be happen, since I'm planning to have a career in a social field, even I think my background can also be something which'd help me to work at that field.
 
#75 · (Edited)
ok so this might be a little long

I've been bullied and it took me a while for me to get it in my head "The only thing that matters is what I truely think of myself."

Anyway, I was bullied from about 3rd grade all the way through the middle of 8th grade. Middle school was the worse, elementary school was just me being excluded from silly playground games so I'll focus on 6th-8th grade bullying and it all built up until I had enough in 8th grade. :shock:

So starting in 6th up until 8th grade middle of January I went through it, luckily the school I went to the counselors and teachers and staff were all very supportive and did their best to issue detentions and temp suspensions but still something in me just snapped. At the end of the year long story short the horse I had been leasing for 4 years, my first full lease/eventer/companion and responsibility died of sever colic and the next day at school Mason started at me with all his derogatory horse remarks belittling me, telling people I had sex with farm animals and everything else I did that had to do with horses just hit me hard and I slammed him against a wall and twisted his shirt collar before he had finished his sentence. I growled/screamed/cried at him "My f*cking horse just died!" and punched him in the gut. The school requested my parents remove me for the remaining 2 months of school and my teachers agreed to after school tutoring to finish up. In order for the school to graduate me from the 8th grade I was required daily therapy for the remaining two months and an addition 3 after which I gladly did as long as I didn't have to go back to campus.

Now, looking back that was the wrong way for me to go and take things and I would have made it through without those actions and I accepted the consequences. If I had the mindset I do now, laughing it all off and come back with a pretty icky question on "and where did you learn all this stuff about horse sex?" and try to turn the tables with a snappy come back would have been great but at 14 it just wasn't possible for me to put myself in that kind of position at the time. :cry: My parents and the school did what they could but kids parents didn't step in or were unable to for some reason and it just escalated.

Bullying is always going to be around which absolutely sucks. It should but won't always be looked into and/or taken seriously which is awful and right now I think the best thing a kid could have is support. It just sucks and I could through a bunch of pretty language around about it but I won't.
 
#77 ·
I'm sorry for that, LoveStory. It's so infuriating when people do something like that.
 
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