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So, this blog came about after a nasty day at school. Not only for me, but for
many people. It's not just today, but every day. It's a long process, and
it often feels you leaving full of self loathing. Their isn't a day that goes by
that I myself am called: Ugly, Shrimp, Stupid, Loser, Hideous, Gay, Freak,
Fake, Emo, Nerd, Fat, Poser, Fake, Over-Emotional, and my favorite
PSYCHOPATH!
This is a daily thing, and it makes school hard, it makes life difficult.
And it's a shame really. I'm in the 8th grade, and is this really something
that you want to spread to today's youth? Do you really want today's
youth to go through life believing these things?
I didn't believe these things for a minute, but eventually,
after hearing it for so long, you do believe it. Now I do believe these
things. It makes my life more difficult on top of the already
tedious, demanding, and grueling long school hours. It makes
things difficult. I don't want to go, and I'm sure I'm not the only
one who feels these ways.
Today, I recently told a teacher about these issues, and their motto?
I DID NOT HEAR;
THEREFORE I CANNOT HELP!
And my favorite line from my other teacher,
THIS IS A NO TOLERANCE SCHOOL ZONE;
I AM NOT QUALIFIED TO HELP YOU IN THIS MATTER.
What?
Come again.
You didn't hear?
This is no tolerance?
You cannot help?
Now, is this seriously the message you want to give? I get it, you
can't do certain things but if someone is getting bullied
day in and day out, not necessarily in my situation, but like
my friend Gracie. She is told people would supply a gun, if she
did the honors of leaving.
Do you have any idea how this effects a child's life?
We have it hard enough outside of school, and then you
come to school, which is supposed to be a safe place but you
only get the same thing day in and day out. It makes me sick, it makes
me scared, it makes me not want to show up to school for the same ridicule I'd
face in every moment of school.
It's bad, this has to end. We are kids, can't you go a day without
bullying someone for something so petty as the way their hair falls, or
the way their shirt looks. Or even something like a blemish on their face,
when everyone gets blemishes. Heck, my nonna still gets blemishes.
She still gets imperfections.
Today's youth cannot go a day without hearing the words of peers,
or media. This stigma on things has to change. People
need a break. Because these words cut deep, these
words make people sick. These words kill.
One in four children who are bullied grow some form of
anxiety a decade later after being bullied.
One in six children attempt suicide from bullying.
Two in three school children report bullying
from themselves or witness someone else being bullied.
I don't want to be another statistic,
I don't want you to be another statistic either.
We need to change this, and if we don't, or if we don't step up
for the ones who are, how is this going to change?
If you or someone else you know is struggling with
depression, please, don't be another casualty.
Call the national hotline at
1.800.273.8255.
For a list of national hotlines in your
suicide hotlines for one in your area.
Labels: Don't Change, Don't Judge, Letting Go, Living, school, Self Help, Stop |
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