I've been bullied from grade 3 until grade 10 (2 years ago), and all the teachers just said "Report to me". That just leads to more problems with the kids. "You tattle taler!!". After a while, I stopped going to the teachers for help, and just fought back. That didn't turn out so good. The bullying slowly stopped as years went on. They started to mature, drop out, or find someone else to bully.
When I see bullying happening wherever, I stick up for the person, and it works for an extent, usually until I leave. But hey, that is a start.
Here is the article: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/story/4038233p-4647290c.html
Quote from Winnipeg Free Press
Students fight anti-gay bullying
Thu Sep 13 2007
CAMBRIDGE, N.S. -- Two students at Central Kings Rural High School fought back against bullying recently, unleashing a sea of pink after a new student was harassed and threatened when he showed up wearing a pink shirt.
The Grade 9 student arrived for the first day of school last Wednesday and was set upon by a group of six to 10 older students who mocked him, called him a homosexual for wearing pink and threatened to beat him up.
The next day, Grade 12 students David Shepherd and Travis Price decided something had to be done about bullying.
"It's my last year. I've stood around too long and I wanted to do something," said Shepherd.
They used the Internet to encourage people to wear pink and bought 75 pink tank tops for male students to wear. They handed out the shirts in the lobby before class last Friday. Even the bullied student had one.
"I made sure there was a shirt for him," Shepherd said.
They also brought a pink basketball to school as well as pink material for headbands and arm bands. About half of the school's 830 students wore pink.
It was hard to miss the mass of students in pink milling about in the lobby, especially for the group that had harassed the new student.
"The bullies got angry," said Price. "One guy was throwing chairs. We're glad we got the response we wanted."
Shepherd said one of the bullies angrily asked him whether he knew pink on a male was a symbol of homosexuality.
He told the bully that didn't matter to him and shouldn't to anyone.
"Something like the colour of your shirt or pants, that's ridiculous," he said. "Our intention was to stand up for this kid so he doesn't get picked on."
Price said the bullies "keep giving us dirty looks, but we know we have the support of the whole student body.
"Kids don't need this in their lives, worrying about what to wear to school. That should be the last thing on their minds." The two friends said they didn't take the action looking for publicity. But the school has received a call from an anti-bullying program in Alberta and the two boys have been asked to write a paper for an Acadia University professor who teaches a course in equity.
Central Kings principal Stephen Pearl said the boys took a very mature approach, calling him in advance to tell them about their plan.
"We're just trying to take a stand," Travis said. "It's just us standing up for what we believe in."
-- Halifax Chronicle Herald
Thu Sep 13 2007
CAMBRIDGE, N.S. -- Two students at Central Kings Rural High School fought back against bullying recently, unleashing a sea of pink after a new student was harassed and threatened when he showed up wearing a pink shirt.
The Grade 9 student arrived for the first day of school last Wednesday and was set upon by a group of six to 10 older students who mocked him, called him a homosexual for wearing pink and threatened to beat him up.
The next day, Grade 12 students David Shepherd and Travis Price decided something had to be done about bullying.
"It's my last year. I've stood around too long and I wanted to do something," said Shepherd.
They used the Internet to encourage people to wear pink and bought 75 pink tank tops for male students to wear. They handed out the shirts in the lobby before class last Friday. Even the bullied student had one.
"I made sure there was a shirt for him," Shepherd said.
They also brought a pink basketball to school as well as pink material for headbands and arm bands. About half of the school's 830 students wore pink.
It was hard to miss the mass of students in pink milling about in the lobby, especially for the group that had harassed the new student.
"The bullies got angry," said Price. "One guy was throwing chairs. We're glad we got the response we wanted."
Shepherd said one of the bullies angrily asked him whether he knew pink on a male was a symbol of homosexuality.
He told the bully that didn't matter to him and shouldn't to anyone.
"Something like the colour of your shirt or pants, that's ridiculous," he said. "Our intention was to stand up for this kid so he doesn't get picked on."
Price said the bullies "keep giving us dirty looks, but we know we have the support of the whole student body.
"Kids don't need this in their lives, worrying about what to wear to school. That should be the last thing on their minds." The two friends said they didn't take the action looking for publicity. But the school has received a call from an anti-bullying program in Alberta and the two boys have been asked to write a paper for an Acadia University professor who teaches a course in equity.
Central Kings principal Stephen Pearl said the boys took a very mature approach, calling him in advance to tell them about their plan.
"We're just trying to take a stand," Travis said. "It's just us standing up for what we believe in."
-- Halifax Chronicle Herald
I really respect what those grade 12's did to support that bullied kid. A lot of people also helped out, and I think that that is what is needed to stop bullying. Having a lot of other kids doing what the other kid was doing, and showing that it is okay to the bullies, and the bullies backing down. It takes a lot of courage to be able to do that. It is even a lot harder to do it when your friends are the ones who are bullying.
Would you stick up for someone you don't know, who is being bullied?
I just went to the skateboard park, being social for once
, and it was terrible there. 8 year old kids using swears like you would not believe. Even this one kid was bullying his sister, for no reason at all. He was all like "F--- you!", and hitting her. (She is older than him), I had to stick up for her. There was nothing else happening. The kid just didn't get that that was wrong. Even after I got 3 other people on my side, who are older than him. He just didn't back down, until an hour passed and he had to go home.Kids there were after me a lot, calling me a "Chicken" or "Pussy" and even saying "You suck man!", all I had to say was, "Yea, I suck.", "You are way cooler than me", "Yup I'm a chicken, I don't want to hit my head on this concrete.".
Do you have any experiences with bullying ? What do you do about it? What do you think is the best way to stop it?
Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Sep 14 2007, 12:53 am by O)Matt_Burch. Reason: Spelling/Grammar
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