My Story

Posted: 10/16/2012

I was bullied in school.  I made a bad choice and it started in the 7th grade.  People I knew and people I didn’t know bullied me, people I thought were my friends bullied me or just gave up on me.   I was harassed, threatened, beaten up.  I was miserable.  Because of it all I quit school in the 9th grade.  I tried to tell counselors at school, I tried to ignore them but even when I moved it never went away, someone from the past always reappeared and it would start over.  I hated school, I hated my life. 

Now as an adult I look back on that period of time and I still have the scars from the way the kids treated me.  It still hurts.  It hurts that I lost my childhood because of bullies who had nothing better to do then to terrorize me.  I eventually went back to school and I have gone on to become someone I am proud of but like I said, it still hurts.

When my 3 children were in school and if anything came up involving them being bullied or them doing the bullying I took action IMMEDIATELY and put a stop to it.  Because of my watchfulness and willingness to take a stand, my children were not bullied and they had a very happy childhood.

We need to make people understand that it takes action from adults to help put a stop to kids bullying.  It takes bigger consequences and we need to make the people doing the bullying realize the harm they are doing to others.  This is such a serious topic and it really needs the support of people like you to reach out and find people who can help and who can make our schools a better and safer place for our children.

By: Jean