I dont have any experience with bullying but other people around me do. No one does anything about it. All the school says is talk it out and the problems will be resolve. THAT IS NOT TRUE what so ever. People get bullied for everything. What they wear, who they are and most importantly their looks. No one has the right to make fun of someone. EVERYONE is the same person but different face. Yes they have feelings too. IT MAKES ME SICK, to see things like it. I can't do nothing about it. Its going to happen and nothing will be done. Staten Island is a big city, but every kid knows another. Populars and the unpopulars. You know who they are when you see them. The populars sh*t on everyones life like its nothing. Its horrible. I can't stand it. HFIRSUDKJFHO in 6th grade people called me period head because i dyed my bangs pinkish red. Now 9th grade everyone is dying their hair and I'M THE ONE WHO GETS PICKED ON FOR IT? People in 6th grade said they were going to jump me. but i got through it. 5th-6th were the worse years of my life but i manage to go through it and be happy about it. and ignore the problem. 

My friend Killed herself because of what people said and did to her. She is dearly missed and was very loved by her close friends.

In elementary school i was bullied, not over the edge, but just enough to make me quiet and withdrawn. I lived in a small town so i went to school with these people all throughout middle school so it was constant. My mom was busy dealing with my brothers (they were trouble makers) and so i didn't want to stress her out more with my problems and my dad worked a lot so it was hard to talk to him. As far as i knew i was all alone in this world. In middle school they just ignored me i was just a mass of nothing that took up a desk, and i thought it was an improvement. I remember this one one time though a kid came in to give the teacher a note and had to wait for her to write down her answer one kid called him a guppy and everyone laughed i did not, but i also didnt do anything about it as far as i was concerned it was every outcast for themselves. I wish i would have done something.

I got made fun of a lot and still do today. It lead me to cutting my self and then lying that I don't'. THey would see the scares. These football players adn vollyball players thougth they where the schools shit. But really we all where scared of them and didnt want to screw with them and get hrut. Well one day I did i stude up to them and then i was flat on my ass. I can rember every punch every kick every persons weight from when they would body slam me it would really get me to the point where i would pass out and wouldn't remeber a thing later that day. I still dealk with it and fight every day to live MY life!!

My parents got divorced last January. My little sister and older brother moved with my mom into my mom's boyfriends Apartment. Sadly my moms boyfriend was my sister's Best friend dad. A year after everything my sister now attends the high school near my mom's house. Her friend, mom's boyfriend's daughter, is a bit of an "outgoing" person. She does a lot of things that I don't find acceptable for someone of her age. (we are the same age she is a few months younger but she is in the grade below me, same grade as my sister, sophomores.)  Her friend had gotten unclothed in the back of this guy's truck. Being new at that school as of maybe a month ago, nobody knew my sister but they all knew that where there is my sister, there is her best friend. Since the day everyone keeps calling my sister a "slut", "whore", well you get my point. I know my sister isn't the best of people she she always takes the consequences on her actions, whatever they may be. I truly believe my sister didn't do what her friend did though she is getting all of the blame and it is hitting her hard. She has been at that school for maybe a month and there is only about a month of school but she can't take it. Everyone is being rude calling her names, people she doesn't even know. She has yet to talk to her friend about all of this but refuses to be associated with her at school. (they share a room at their home, no avoiding there) but yet it's not "blowing over" like i keep telling her it will. Help. I honestly can't do anything for her right now. We go to completely different schools and I rarely see her.

                                                                      -Allie

Me myself, I've never been bullied by peers, never paid much attention to bullying or really even thought about it. But I've been victim of family verbal bullying.  Tonight I watched this movie, and it opened my eyes, literally sobbing through this whole movie. I am 16, and struggle with depression, and bipolar disorder. This movie, it means so much to me. I felt those families pain, and I wanted to hold them and bring there children back to them, but it's not how this world works. I'm ready to do all I can to make a difference and STOP bullying. 

Ever since i was a kid i never was one to be messed with. If i had "friends" who would pick on me i never kept quiet, i would stand up for myself. In middle schooli became friends with these girls who i thought were fun, and the best friends i could ever have. It wasn't until high school did i realise i was the bully in middle school. My friends would pick on this guy who was quiet and sat by himself. It was stuid it really was, i would sit there and laugh and just watch them. In my eyes its worse to be the kid who sits and watches and doesn't say anything. I hate myself for not saying or doing anything to stop it, i honestly do. When i realised what i had done, i felt really bad for a while and didn't do anything. I realised feeling bad wasn't going to change what i had done or how i didn't act. My junior year of highschool i became friends with this guy, talked to him when i saw him and just became friends with him. The worst part? I haven't apologized yet. After watching this i now know i have to just say im sorry, even if it happened 3/4 years ago, even if sorry wont change what i did. Even tho sorry wont make me feel better, or change how he felt, i think it needs to be said. Bullying is something i will NEVER stand for and i will not just sit there and let it happen anymore. ITS NOT COOL. ITS NOT FUNNY. AND ITS NOT JUST WHAT KIDS DO. it needs to be treated just as seriousl as any other form of abuse, no one deserves to be constantly tormented. I WILL ALWAYS STAND UP FOR THE SILENT.

When I first moved to where I am now, I was instantly labeled the "outsider" because I came from a different province. The bullying actually started in Kindergarten because I was different from everyone else there. I was the shortest, yet one of the oldest. I was a bit overweight then, but I over came that one quickly after 2nd grade. But I'm now in 9th grade. Yes the bulling has died down, but there's still people who think I don't know that they talk about me behind my back, but I do and it really hurts. I've been called a whore, fat, slut, freak, and anything else you can think of. I've also been pushed into lockers. The bullying has been going on for 9 years now, and I've really had it. Every time I stand up for myself, they still don't stop. But honestly, I think the main reason they don't stop is because I stood up for myself to late. I starting standing up for my self last year in grade 8. Maybe if I had done that earlier, they would've stopped talking about me and everything. But what I'm trying too say is, don't wait like I did. Tell someone as soon as it happens and stand up for your self. Not just for you, but for others you may see being bullied as well. Together we can stop bulling.

I was in the 4th grade when I experienced my first bullying experience. I was told that I bathed in mud puddles, that I looked like a boy, called ugly and fat on a daily basis and had brutal words thrown into my face that I will not say here. I was bullied. Everyday at school. I thought it would get better as I got older, but it just got worse. The name calling extended to people disrespecting my family, making fun of my brother for his bi-polar disability, calling out names infront of school teachers in the classroom, and taunting me with unshakeable phrases. I cried, I cried everynight, that's the only way I could get to sleep. I can't count how many times I came home and told my mother I'd be better off dying. Thanks to the love and support of my family, I got through it all. Suicide is NOT an option anyone should include in their lives. Physical harm is not something anyone should think about. Bullying is not something anyone should experience. With countless meetings with the principals, school counsellors, nurses and teachers, nothing changed. The bullying continued. In grade 7, I switched schools. It worked, until the bullying started up again in highschool. I am now 19 years old, and a true believer that EVERYONE deserves a friend. I would be more than happy to be anyone's friend, young or old, boy or girl, straight, bi, gay, black, white. I don't care about your sexuality, religion, gender or culture. It doesn't matter what you look like, or how you think, if you're nice to me, I'll return the kindness. I go out of my way to teach kids in my neighbourhood to stick up for themselves and encourage them to tell someone. That someone can be me. I have ears, and I'm willing to listen. I have a heart, and I would love to share it. Please don't be a bully...and please, don't be a bystander. Be a believer. Stick up for yourself, and others.

who would have thought the girl who always smled broke down and cried in the middle of the night scared about what would happen the next day.It started at the begging of 6th grade when she was called ugly,whale,loser,or told to die. Once she ran to the bathroom and cried. Another time she cried again and her so called "friends" told to stop being a baby and that it was just a joke but to her it wasnt a joke. It was serious to her cause it hurt her maybe not physicaly but meantly. A couple times she missed school. Her "friend" made a hate page about her. Everytime she got bullied everyone would LAUGH. she said stop but they wouldnt so she decided that she would laugh with them and fake a smile and pretend everything was alright. But in reality it wasnt. She would hold up so much feelings inside that it would become too much that she would cut her wrist. Then this month kids in her class would joke about suicide,self harm,shooting,and the worst thing they said was that they deserve to die because they are selfish. So she almosted tried it she found a knife and starred at it then she put it down. She sighed and said "its not my time to go" She went to her room and listened to her idol: Demi Lovato. everyone says that she is their role model to but she has a reason the othes idolis her because she can sing. The next day she wrote this telling part of her story. funny thing actually that girl is me. hai im desi and i am me.just stop the laughing