Bullying, it has to stop.

Twice in the past week we've seen news reports on children who killed themselves rather than continue to deal with bullying.

It never ceases to amaze me how often the teachers blow off students who come to them for protection from bullying. I’ve seen teachers sit there watching while kids get bullied and they don’t say a word. One word from them at those times would put a stop to it but they say nothing.

I was bullied as a child. It was terrible. My mother talked to the schools numerous times and they did nothing. She tried talking to the parents but that only made things worse because the kids got in trouble and then came to school to bully me some more. I used to hide on the grounds near the baseball diamond and under the bleachers hoping that they wouldn’t be able to find me and crying the whole time because the kids were so incredibly nasty to me all day.

I remember one time the teacher had told us to stop swearing. Immediately after that, a boy kicked me hard in the shins (I’m a girl), so I called him the a-word. I was the one that got kicked out of class even though other students backed me up when I said that the boy had kicked me.

I had a desk kicked into my back once and I complained to the teacher because it bloody well hurt. The teacher told the boy that did it “don’t do that” (in those exact words) and went back to grading our tests without another word.

Not to mention that anything I did, said, wore, read, ate, listened to… nothing was out of question with those nasty children. I was alone most of the time because I just couldn’t stand being near any of them because they were so nasty to me.

It has lasting repurcussions for your life. To this day, I’ve never learned how to deal with people properly and I nearly always feel out of place, no matter who I’m with (except my husband who accepts me just as I am and I know it), even my own family. I don’t make friends easily like I did when I was a young child. So I’m very much a loner. Not that I want to be. Its just something thats been with me ever since.

Its not that I’m afraid of people, just uncomfortable around them.

And its all because the teachers couldn’t be bothered to help a student crying out for help.
Bullying in school has got to stop. I think its time to start holding teachers responsible for not helping children. If nothing else, they are adults and should be intimidating enough to young children that the kids would cease and desist what they’re doing. If they can’t, then why are they teachers? Its obviously not for the children and they have no reason to be there.

The teachers apparently think that, though they should be shaping a young students education, they shouldn't have to do anything else.

It has got to stop. Teachers need to take more responsibility for the minds they are claiming to shape.