I am 14 years old in 9th grade i am bullied by almost everyone in my grade. People pick on me for having a scar on my right leg.  In my art class everyone moves away from me. One day a guy in my class called me stupid and that i couldn't do anything right if my life depended on it. I come home in tears everyday from people say stuff behind my back and right in front of my own eyes. Some of my old friends who use to care about what people said about me turned into those people. The reason why they are not my friends any more is because their parents judge my family for what my brother did. It hurts to go to school and have people not want to sit near me or be around me. A couple months ago i tryed to end my life because of what people would say but i saw a bright side to things and did not end my life i am to young and don't want people to suffer like they did when my sister died.

My son is a quiet 12 year old and for some reason was getting picked on by a group of boys, several of my son's friends quit going to school and are now home schooled because they were picked on by the same bully's. The school never did anything. My son was 1 belt away from a black belt in Karate and never did anything to defend himself, because he do not want to get in trouble, it seems the person who defends himself is always the one to get in trouble. Now my son goes to school each day and has no friends, because the friends he did have, were driven away from school.

I have instructed all my children to stand up for those that are getting bullied and if they see someone that has no friends, to go over and be there friend and stand up for them if needed. 

WE'VE RAISED HIM LIKE OUR OWN.  HE REALLY IS HER GRANDCHILD, BUT HE'S MY BOY.  AND WHEN THEY STARTED PICKING ON HIM, I DID THINK "WELL, KIDS ARE KIDS".  BUT IT NEVER SEEMED TO END.  AND BY JUNIOR HIGH, IT GOT NASTIER, LEWD, AND FLAT OUT CRUEL.  AND NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES WE WENT TO THE SCHOOL, IT SEEMED THEY MADE HIM GET PUNISHED FOR STICKING UP FOR HIMSELF.  FINALLY, I SAID NO.  NO MORE WOULD HE BE PUNISHED WHEN HE DIDN'T START ANYTHING.  WE'RE PUTTING HIM IN A WHOLE NEW SCHOOL DISTRICT NEXT YEAR TO START HIGH SCHOOL. THEN WE WATCHED THE MOVIE, BULLY.  AND WE CRIED. THERE WERE WHOLE PASSAGES THAT WE HAVE HEARD FROM REAL LIFE.  IT IS SCARY TO THINK WHAT COULD'VE HAPPENED HAD WE NOT GOTTEN FED UP.  APPARENTLY SCHOOL DISTRICTS ARE NOT THAT DISSIMILAR AROUND THE COUNTRY.  LIP SERVICE TO THE NO-BULLY POLICY.  

I was bullied a few years back in school. It started after I was dating this boy who dumped me and told everybody that I gave him an STD. We didnt even do anything. I was called names and laughed at. I had a few friends who were by my side. Later in the school year I switched schools because I moved and was now attending a public school. My first day the counselors first words were, "You better tuck your necklace into your shirt. Someone will snatch it off your neck." What kind of first impression is that? It was my aunts necklace who passed away of cancer. My first day of school, I sat alone during lunch. I sat alone in all my classes. Im not a big fan of meeting new people. There were always a lot of fights in that school and a bunch of kids being picked on as I walked by. It made me sick. My second day a group of african american boys sat by me. They called me a boy and proceeded to take my lunch and threatened to beat me up. I wasnt going to tolerate it. My mom pulled me out of school and I have been homeschooled for two years now. I told the school what they were doing and of course like any school, they did absolutely nothing about it. But Im happier being homeschooled.(:

I come from a small town, mostly farm country so there are allot of guys at our school who like to believe they are tough and well don't take so well to gays/lesbians or bi. My best friend is gay and he is the sweetest most kind guy I have ever met, its hard for me to believe he can be hated but he is and it kills me to watch what happens when he goes to school. He is picked on constantly because he chooses to like men, he has been called horrible names, he has had his stuff stolen as a joke. I try and do what I can but it's hard when me and him only share one class. We have been too the school and they sometimes brush it off like its nothing, he texts me each night and tells me how hurt he is and how he wish he didn't have to go to school. It breaks my heart! he is special to me, like a brother and I wish it would all stop. He has attempted suicide once, thank god his father caught him....I really want to prevent it from happening again. He disserves to live he's a great person and I wish people could see that and look past who he chooses to love.

Crying is something that all humans do at least once in their life. Being emotionally insecure are having a strong felling towards something causes this. Lots of kids who are bullied hold back their tears yet even though they don't show it they cry inside. As a victim I have experienced this. When I was in the 2nd grade I was friends with this girl. This girl had a friend who was mean and treated me horribly. At the time I didn't tell anyone yet I felt like hiding and not wanting to go to school. The girl would push me and make me do things. She would call me names and would treat me like garbage. I bust brushed it off and didn't tell anyone. Admitting  it to myself was hard but telling my mom was even worse. After she geared about she wanted to talk to the school yet I wouldn't let her. I didn't want to feel like i needed help I wanted to feel like I could deal with it myself. It turned out that I changed schools. Even in my new school I was picked on because I was quiet and short. I hated myself for allowing then to insult me. I let them bully me and that is what they kept on doing it. Finally after getting through the two years I finally started a new chapter. Now at school I am starting to stand up for myself. I am not letting people bully me anymore. After watching this movie I am going to help stop bullying.

Many people believe that bullying will stop once a student graduates from school.  Children often believe that if they avoid school, they can avoid the pain and humiliation of being picked on and hurt, but it can continue - only the label changes from bullying to harassment.

As a child, I was picked on even though I changed schools.  Only when I had a trusted teacher that I could talk to about the issues did the bullying stop; still, the internal damage of feeling less than my peers continued, even as an adult.

I made a career change to become a special education teacher in my 40s only to be bullied again – only this time it was by the school’s staff.  Like the students who are bullied, I was told that I didn’t fit in, even though I had lived within twenty minutes of the community my entire life.  The school psychologist took an immediate dislike to me and bullied or harassed me to a point that by spring of my first year of teaching, I became suicidal.  I spent the next six months receiving therapy to come to grips with what had and was occurring in my life.  Not surprisingly, I was fired which further reinforced my feelings of low self worth. 

Five years later, I am a successful special education teacher in a neighboring school system, and I am highly aware of harassment and/or bullying.  It has become a personal mission to protect students until they can stand back up and move forward with their lives free from ridicule.  I encourage all individuals who have been bullied to get counseling in order to properly come to terms with it.  I also encourage those who engage in bullying to get the help they need to live a life without the impulse to de-value another to feel okay.  YOUR behaviors are not normal or okay.

Blessings to all, be free!

You know, at our school it seems that the principles don't care, very few teachers actually care, and the councelors are just a joke! They tell you to suck it up but, you know sometimes the sponge just can't suck anymore in and it just bursts. In my world where I have virtually no support system through my bullying crysis, there is my best friend. Of course I have my mom but, it just isn't the same as a best friend! I have boys calling me horible names that nobody should EVER be called. In this world full of bullying I have my best friend. Teachers even putting me down and picking on me, but I still have my best friend. I know I can call her day or night, and she will be there for me! People shove me into lockers, but I have my best friend. Thank you so much for being there for me through all of this! I love you!

I was new to school and i i liked it. People did not like me because i was muslim. They where saying that i was a  terrorist and i was going to bomb the school. That has been happning for over 7 years. I have friends but they sometimes think that i am a  terrorist. I would not hang out with them if they did that but they are the only people i have and if i lose them as friends, i will become a nobody.

I haven got hit and shoved in the lockers and for a long time we have been telling the school board and still nothing changes. I go to a small school in boonton nj and there are not a people there but bullying still happends there and i wish it would stop happening to people because it is sad to see on what happends to people that are getting bullied all over the world.

I hope this stops to my school and other places all over the world. What people are not seeing that people are getting hurt by this and it is taking over unless people try to stop it witch it not happending at these schools and i would like this to stop because i am a victum and it is not a good feeling to be one. If i do not like being the victum then how do all of the people and kids react and handle this situation on there own so stop bullying and join the fight to put a end to it.

"Just ignore them" they say and "it won't hurt" they say. This is all I heard from most of my teachers at middle school whenever I'm being teased and provoked by classmates. Little did they know, I've been ignoring the torments for about 4 years. There have been so many kinds of abuse that I've experienced during that time from being dragged to the name calling to being excluded by my classmates to having my items vandalized, and after all of that, the words "Just ignore them are said to me. Out of 11 of my teachers, including my principal, only 3 had reached out and/or attempted to address the issue of me being bullied. The saddest part was the my principal at that time didn't address the bullying, especially when He witnessed a student verbally abusing me. All he did was telling me that "He who angers you controls you" A Proverb sounds great but at that time, I needed someone to stand up for me and the principal of the school couldn't even do that to me.  Did I mentioned that I had attended a private Christian school? At first my parents told me the same thing "Ignore them" until they've noticed how it had taken a toll on me, going back home begging to transfer schools, crying in the car about what happened that day, and even lashing out on my younger siblings. Since I couldn't fight at school my aggression went to my younger brother. There would be times during school when I would take Advil for the slightest headaches and then I would fall asleep in class because I was feeling "sick". I wasn't sure when all of this was going to end, I was tired of crying myself to sleep and being called names such as "polka dots, dalmation, bony, raisin bran, dominos dots, skinny, etc." it wasn't like they were doing this in secret it was out there, a teacher could actually hear what was going on.

There's so much to my story, but even though I graduated from that middle school, the bullying had taunted me all until college. It took a toll on my self image, self esteem, and my personality. All I wanted was to be accepted by all. It was hard to put the past behind me because some of the students from middle school attended the same high school I've attended. It was to the point that I had to seek counseling a year after I started college and that was a breakthrough for me!

One thing I want to say to the teachers and other school leaders is this: when a student comes up to you stating that they are being bullied, please take the initiative and end it immediately, even if they may be "sensitive" put it to an end and inform the parents. Don't wait until they come back to school with a gun or any form of lethal weapon. Stop responding by saying "Just Ignore Them" because just ignoring will make matters worse.

To those of the kids who are currently being bullied: talk to your teachers and if they are not taking action go to your parents. Please learn to forgive and seek counseling to help you heal from your painful past. Know that you are worth so much more and that you are fearfully and wonderfully made by God. Don't resort to violence and suicide. Be able to live to tell your story and make a stand against bullying.