I have been bullied in my life. Because I am 7 feet tall, People used to call me Daddy Long Legs and other names that I will not repeat. I do have some people who have bullied me come up to me and say that they are sorry. Each of us need to speak up and stand against bullying

Hi,

My name is Samantha Rodriguez & I am a PROUD parent of 3 wonderful children!  Victoria is 11 years old & in the 6th grade at Alcalde Elementary School! Justin is 8 years old in 2nd grade & also attends Alcalde Elementary.  Then there is lil Mikey who is a year & a half!  My daughter is bright, smart, beautiful, trustworthy, honest....everything a mother can ask for!  One problem is that she is being bullied.  I have had to change her school once already at the middle of the school year because of bullying & her principal didn't do a damn thing to help us!  It was so bad that she was sick to her stomach when it was time to go to school!  Every Monday was hell for us...Got the run around & finally we got fed up & switched schools! Now at the new school with her old friends she is having the same problems!  The principal has been informed & now we sit & wait to hear back from the principal!  I am tired & frustrated & need some ideas of what else to do?!  My daughter's self esteem has literally been ripped from her & I need help!!  I have taken her to see a therapist because of these girls that have bullied her but it doesn't seem to have helped! 

My name is Amber Hope Warren, and I'm 15. I go to my local high school, living life like thousands before me. When I first entered school people thought I was weird and unacceptable. My "friends" hid from me on the play ground. I switched schools where a whole new problem began. I was teased for my love for horses, my favorite animal. I had a wild imagination and to make up for the friends i didnt have I have imaginary horses. They were my friends, all exotic breeds, all so nice to me. I was teased and called a freak. "They arn't real!" kids would scream at me. See, even in the first grade we had a social order of things. And I was at the bottom. The people I thought were my friends just used me to their own advantage because I would do anything for them. By the time the fourth grade hit they stopped teasing me about horses and started on my weight. I watched and allowed all of my self esteem to roll away into a deep cut in my heart. I was so young and sure i had a hard time running and keeping u in soccer, but that didnt mean I was fat! One day I was in my PE class, with all my bullies, and the gym teacher called me in. He started making fun of me and my physical abilities. All of this was said while the overhead speaker was on for the gym. When I walked out of there, tears in my eyes, it seemed like every single person was pointing and laughing. I ran to my mothers room, because she worked in the school. When she asked him about what happened he told me to get over it. My mom was trying so hard for me. I was just the odd ball out. I decided that if no one was going to like me no matter how much i tried to change myself I'd just be who i felt i was. I always had an appreciation for the gothic things, the un known, and the darker things. Well, that started a new round of bullying. I left my school after 7th grade and started in my local school distrect. I was happier. Sure I was called Monster Girl and Satanic but I had people like me who loved me for who I was. I had teachers to support me. I was never really physically bullied there. I was awarded the opertunity to go to my local private school due to achedemic ability. I was bulliied out of there within two months. I stayed home most of the time to avoid it. I missed three weeks of school in a row. I was bullied for not being Catholic, for being Goth, and for being Bisexual. I didn't admit it there, I knew I would be kicked out. When I was getting things out of my locker a girl in Prada heels kicked me in the small of my back, telling me I wasn't supposed to be here and more important people needed to get their things. I reported all these forms of bulling to the Dean of students who turned around and told me, "Gonzaga Prep does not  have bullies. You are lying to me and your mother about these instances." I couldn't stay. I moved back to my school district and found my friends, only they had changed. These people who were once so proud of themselves were oppressed by the masses of conservative high school. All of us are Bi, most of us are Goth, and for the majority we don't seem to cre what happens to us. Sadly we are picked on for holding hands, laughing and kissing eachother, something that we did the year before but had never been questioned. Even now as I walk down these green halls I find no security in them. This place should be safe but it isn't. Just last week we had an assembl for Anti-bullying. Now its a joke to people. Serious things like using "Gay" or "Retarded" as slang is now joked bout even more. It breaks my heart and I want it to end. Until we find a way to make it etremly punishable for being a bully nothing will ever change. Sadly, this is the only future I can see.....

I'm Alexis I'm 13.... I have been bullied since i was 9!! I was always the out cast, cause of my religon!! I have been tripped,pushed,punched Ect. but the sad thing is it wasn't only girls guys did it to me too!! I have also been cyberbullied and mentally bullied also!! It was like I couldn't even get a break from it at home it followed me everywhere I went!! They always call me water girl!! I sat at lunch by myself,on the bus,recess!! Well the girls got caught on camera doing this stuff to me in the gym... The teachers didn't do nothing about it!! then everything got worse from there cause they knew they could get away with it!!! SO I want to pput a stop to bullying, cause everyoneshould be able to go to school and be happy!!

I was 14 and in 8th grade, there was a guy that I liked and we started hanging out and after one night that we had hung out rumors began to stir around our school and my little hometown. His older sister didn't like the rumors that began so she and her friends began to spread nasty rumors about me. I would be harassed at school and they even started calling my house and telling me that they were going to beat me up and that I should kill myself, even telling my mom that I should die. One night when I was out seeing a new movie with my friends a girl that was friends with the boy (Willy) older sister (Danielle) approached me after the movie and threatened to kill me and beat me up and wanted to fight me, I was scared to death and started to cry and I wanted to run away. None of my friends helped me or had my back or stood up for because the girl (kandace) friends said that if my friends jumped in to help me that her friends would jump in and fight all of us. I finally talked her out of it and as she walked away her friends yelled "You aren't going to let that whore get away with getting her face beat in?!" after they said that she came running back at me and pulled my hair and began to punch me in the face and just would not stop hitting me I put my hands up on her neck trying to push her away but it didn't happen. There was a huge crowd of people there just watching and wanting to take pictures of a "girl fight" I screamed at them to help me but no one came, finally my best friends boyfriend ran over and pull kandace by her hair to get her off of me. I hugged him and thanked him, I could barely breathe from my crying. I pulled away and I saw on his white sweater there was blood and my mascara all down the sweater. I went to jack in the box across the street ran to the bathroom and looked in the mirror and saw my face. I had a black eye, cuts all over my face, and swollen bruised cheek, and busted fat lip, and blood everywhere. It took about 3 days for the swelling to go down. I spent the night at my best friends house since I was so scared to tell my mom. When I came home on Sunday I showed her what happened, we called the cops and reported the fight and they took care of it and so did the school. I could not leave my house for 3 months because I was still threatened. I wanted to die and just leave all the pain right where I decided to die and not have to feel it anymore, I didn't want to be terrified to go to school. Finally I became so scared of going into highschool the next year my mom decided it would be best if I moved down the hill to my grandma's house. The bullying didn't stop there, another friend of Danielle's her name was Jamie and she didn't like me because of all the rumors that had been spread about me. Her and I finally did fight and I did win and after I stood up for myself and proved that I wasn't going to take bullying from no one and that I knew I could defend myself, no one bothered with me, it was finally done and I got to enjoy my last 3 years of highschool without and problems. It is hard to move past what people said about you but every time I thought about dying I didn't do it because I thought f my family and true friends that would miss me and I didn't want to put sadness into their life. I hope my story inspires someone to not go through with suicide. You are stronger and more beautiful than any bully in the world!! <3

 I have pretty much always been odd girl out.  Girls turn their backs to me when I would approach their groups, even in religious groups which you would think wouldn't do that.  That made it even worse.  But when in school, I was bullied/beaten by a gang of girls, who I did not know, they took away my confidence, tore at my sirt,  called me names whore, bitch, etc... punched me in teh face,  pulled out my hair out to teh bloody scalp, held me while  other punched me in the head.  I was younger than them , I was only there  at that location due to wanting to  take the regents exam.  The Police  foudn me innocent, and a victim, two of the girls could be identified by the police, and they received  Juvenille criminal records, adn some update after that as well. I never went to get the updated forms. It was enough to go to the POlice station to get the first ones.  I have faught against bullying since then, made it my mission to help change wrote wongs, held awareness gigs, and helped  gain signatures to pass the Jamey Rodemyer anti Cyberbullying bill which passed in June 2012.   I have helped with  Merilees March for mental wellness,  altenatives for  Battered women" Celebrate Hope" event  at  Temple Brith Kodesh,  Stand up guys, step in and speak out event by MOnroe County  gov.w/ Sen. Robach and County Esceutive Maggie Brooks,  and much more.  I have given away hundreds of my cd " I Don't Care" and performed at Western NY Mental wellness coalition confference , w/ Kaitlin Monte Miss NY  2011,  recipient of the Upstander  scholarship inStaten Island with Senator Klein,. At the beginning of this year I was bullied which set me in a tail spin .  There need to be more positive things to  help kids after these things happen,  because you  get angry and hopeless.  It takes quite a while to  get  unwound.  This effects your entire life- it doesn't go away , it's how you work to help yourself through whatever means.  For me it has been my music but sometimes even music doesn't help.  You can turn against those who have always been there for you, your thought process is  tainted about who is who. I like to be busy helping others and writing for hope.  I hope to make something of myself  and help others .  I thank  kaitlin MOnte for her work, she works hard to make a difference and I am proud that she  was proud of me and my work.  These thing shelp to continue.  Please remember everyone, what if it happened to you?  What would you want others to do for you?   Stand up and stand out! be a positive role model against bulying, abuse and for suicide rpevention/awareness. Join the group on FB  that I  started after my event at teh Lovin Cup March 8, 2012 .  I was very fortunate to have friends and family help me with the event as I had just gotten out of the hospital, my then Health teacher, my mom and dad, relatives, neighbors, Lovin Vup, local govt, Bob Zinck, The Swooners,  441 and Juniper Green, Annie Lane, Jim Lane,  Lori Parker Esq. Merilees march for   mental wellness, LIfestream, Tony Jordan,  Jerrard Johnson  & Swat Kids  Think outside the box, I will help as I can- Tivoli = i lov it !  The Skye's the LImit!!!!.

Okay I'm Tiffany and I'm 14 about to be 15 and I'm in 8th grade about to go into 9th and It was this year when i started 8th grade is when this started happening i get called fat , ugly , worthless , and I'm also told to just go kill my self and that every one would be happy if i did. That's when i became a cutter, school became the worst thing ever , i never wanted to go. Then i switched schools and no one would talk to me every one would avoid me and say mean things about me and talk about me spread rumors give me evil stares i tried to make friends but they all ignored me they talked to me for one day then went back to like i was not even there any more , to be honest i felt WORTHLESS !  I felt like no one cared so i avoid school i haven't been to school because i have been sick but I'm not sick anymore and its been 3 weeks since i've been to school because i feel like an OUTCAST! i have switched schools 3 times this year and I'm switching again. I am hoping no more bullying but that will never happen i am learning to stand up for my self  because my self because i told a couple people my secret and then the whole school new so i just came out of the closet and told everyone I'm bisexual and they make fun of me even more.!! Well that's my story. ):

To Whom It May Concern:

I am a retired principal after 24.  During those years I was an elementary principal and a middle school principal in high poverty rate schools.  I am also a trained facilitator for "The Parent Project" as well as a facilitator for Ruby Payne "Understanding Poverty". After watching the movie " Bullying" I sat there and could relate to everyone of the students to the students that I have had in my career.  I feel deeply sorry for the families that had to go through this.  I was deeply appalled on how the schools, SRO's, and the Board of Educations did not take this problem seriously.  I got up off my couch and was yelling at them for being such idiots.  My school was called a " No Bully Zone" school.  I had signs throughout the school and procedures in place.  There was no just shaking hands.

If you have any questions about my procedures or want input.  I would be more than willing to help in any way that I can.

Thank you for your time,

Buddy

I was bullied 9th-11th grade. My form of bullying wasn't being pushed into lockers or anything like that. The bullying that i encountered was through texting, facebook, and twitter. It was one girl who controlled a group of people. She spread terrible rumors about me. Called me names constantly. She even threatened my life. I had no friends because she would start to do the same thing to anyone who even tried to be my friend. Once she threatened me we took that to the police who advised us to get a restraining order. We took the case to court with all of the evidence and won the restraining order. We then took that to the school hoping they would do something about it. She received no punishment and i ended up dropping out and doing online high school. That girl never receives punishment for anything. She just moves on to another person. The school just ignores it. I was bullied for 3 years by her and ended up missing out on my senior year of high school because of being bullied. She got to have her senior year with all of her friends and no punishment. What more do we have to do to get bullying to stop? I have decided that i am going to do whatever i have to do to get bullying to stop or to get schools to take it more seriously.

I was bullyed from 9th Grade through my Senior year of High School.  I spent most of my time not wanting to be at school, because I didn't want to be put in a trash can, shoved in a toilet, pushing inside a gym locker and many other things.  I realised that the only way to move past it at the time was to ignore it and surround myself with what friends I did have.  They became like a comfort blanket for me.  Anytime I was around them or in my high school theatre I knew I was safe.  Most of the time the bullies would not bother me when i was in one of those to places.  I don't want future kids to go through the same things I went through.