I am the mother of 5 children.  My daughter is a beautiful, smart, and funny 13 year old in 8th grade.  She is being harassed terribly in school.  I started out not understanding because I was never really bullied in school growing up.  I had thought that I could just get her to stick up for herself and she would overcome.  Boy was I wrong.  

I found my daughter is not me, she is shy and sensitive.  These girls are pushing her physically, starting terrible rumors about her sexuality (she has never even had a boyfriend yet!), they make animal noise at her, and they called her trashy in the lunchroom and threw all their thrash around her (the lunch supervisor made my daughter clean up the mess!), they have tore up her homework and wrecked her artwork.  We have been to teacher conferences, school counselors, and principles.  They all admit the girls are mean girls, and they are working on it.  Because it is a she said, she said situation their hands are tied.  

Needless to say I have had to become the scary Mama Bear I never thought I would have to be.  I will not stand for my daughter wishing she was dead everyday!  I am fighting for her safety and comfort in our schools, and I will not stop until all the children feel safe.  

My name is Amanda and I'm 15. I went through a lot in life, I started getting bullied when I was 8 it was hard to get through. I tried telling people but no one listened, I am homeschooled now because I would come home everyday crying then i started staying out of school so they took me out. I still get bullied everywhere I go even online sometimes. I have a depression problem and think about killing myself, I even tried cutting myself once just because i felt like no one cared about me or what happened to me. It hurts to know other people have to go through this, I know how it feels and I want to help people and let them know they ain't alone and I'm here if they ever need to talk.

i'm a girl of 16 years old trying to live a high school life. Ever since I was in third grade i was bullied because of who i was. Everytime i looked in the mirror all i could see are the words they said to me. I hated the bus and to this day i never set foot on the school bus. People dont understand how much words can hurt, and the bullyed are afraid of speaking up because they know that no one will help. Me and my boyfriend have been bullied because we are walking down the together holding hands. They judge him for his past and for what they heard about him. Everytime you hear something doesnt make it true! i have lost "friends" because they didnt think my boyfriend was good enough. For me hes perfect! and thats all that matters for me, i dont care what other think about us. i dont have one friend that has not been bullied. the bullied are always the ones who have to pay for the bullies actions. I know exacly how much bulling hurts because last year i was all alone, i have no friends, no one by my side, i feel apart. i started to drink and cut once. im not going to tell my whole story because im not ready to yet but im telling you this because i want everyone to know that they are not alone. contact me if u wanna talk or if you just need a friend by your side !

My Name Is Amanda Nguyen. Im vietnamese and Im in 8th Grade...So Heres A Story About My Life.....When i was a little girl,i was the most nicest girl of all,until i reached to 7th grade everything went downhill for me because ever since i went away to visit my hometown.....when i got back everyone started to laugh at me for what i do or what i said...i sometimes feel like i just want to be home alone with no one around....people kept pushing me to lockers and pulling my hair and always calling me names like "Hoe,slut,bitch" & ect......so then i reached to 8th grade....things are getting harder,my life is getting harder.everything was harder.....i start to loose some friends that i knew along time.....i would go home and be online talking to my internet friends because they care about me and for who i am....but everytime when i get home from school i would cry and cut my wrist....ive been depressed since 7th grade and i still am....so much stressed in me...i cant handle it....my mom or my brother doesnt understand my feeling or what im going thru.....whenever i tell them about my situation,the alway tell me to ignore it but im trying sooooo hard to ignore them , i just hate my life....but when i started talking to my cousin about my situation she told me everything that i need to know and need to do but i told her that im trying my very best to stay strong...but im getting weaker and weaker....i dont know if i can help it or get thru it......

My name is Alexis. I'm 14 years old and on the 24th I went to a mental hospital to get help because I wanted to commit suicide due to bullying.. my parents have immediately changed my school schedule and are now looking into getting me into alternative school. I've been dealing with this problem since middle school. I was diagnosed with depression, anxiety, social anxiety. I've tried overdosing once before because I felt like nobody cared. They call me fat, whore, etc. They spread rumors about me sleeping around, when I haven't. It got to the point I just wanted to end my life because I couldn't handle it anymore. I was immediately sent to a mental hospital to receive help. I was put on a few different medicines to help me get better. I hasn't been in school for the week, so I can switch schools and hopefully the bullying stops. I hope nobody else has to go through what I did. Reading these stories are just upsetting..I hope everyone gets through the bullying. Stay strong.

I have heard alot of upsetting stories about bullying but for me the bullies are still in the past and will stay there forever but the people who get bullied are in the future. i always skype people who they feel they want to talk to and trust in there life i listen to everyone and if i can help i will 100% im a person who always help people who feel they dont belong in this world...but everyone is on this earth to be kind to share and to respect each other but i believe bullies come from a bad background but just remember im always here for anyone. thanks

I was a bully my 9th grade year, believe it or not. I physically hurt someone . I have never done that before! I felt so bad. The girl called me names and then that's when I lost it. I wish I new the easy ways to avoid what people would say but being a freshman you don't no. I got better . But then my sophomore - junior year I almost took my own life. Not of bullying but because the guy I fell in love with cheated on me when we were together forever. He cheated on me with my best friend. My father came Into my room when I was laying on the ground screaming. He held me. He hates that guy to this day . However I still love him. My junior year, I moved back to Maine. It was tough being a new girl all over again and not knowing how people were anymore. I was instantly called a 'whore', 'slut' and 'skank' because guys wanted the 'new girl'. I never slept with anyone. Then people got over themselves. Next thing you know, a friendship between me and a girl ended and all hell broke loose. I never expected to be turned on and be made fun of so much. It got to the point where 'cliques' would hate me for the way I looked and talked and walked. I reported it to the office, but the office claimed there was vague information because there was no 'proof' . How can you tell someone that's being bullied and tells you what happen and because here's no 'proof'. I created a fake facebook page to get some 'proof' . That was invalid and I was in trouble because I was the one who made a facebook page. I regret the page because it didn't help. And honestly I just set myself up for more pain. I even went to police but there wasn't anything he could really do besides letting me put a restraining order on one girl. Then the rest of the 'clique' found out and I received messages asking "you gunna put a restraining order on me now?" . Honestly I was at my breaking point. This kid told me he would buy me a rope to tie around my neck and hang myself. At that point I turned to weed and alcohol. I'm so much better now because of my best friend was there for me and my family. I gave up all socail media and my phone just to start over. NOW I'm back and ready to help everyone whose had experience one way or another.

Okay so I am new on this site and project and I saw that I am allowed to share my story too and that's what I am about to do and I hope it will help you and will inspire you. It was 2008 when I first started a youtube channel and also that was the year I became a belieber. I saw that Justin's dream came true so I thought, why not mine too? Yeah it was the worst idea ever. I put up on youtube some covers and also a video with me saying 'Justin Bieber te iubesc' which means I love you Justin Bieber in my language and yeah, everything was fine. Only positive reactions, I got to 3000 subscribers in such a short time and there were famous people that used to give me feedback. It felt amazing. I have to say that I have never shared my videos on facebook or on any other social media website. Time passed by and I was in the handball training camp with no internet, like we could barely have wifi in our rooms but yeah. It was my birthday on 14th january 2010 and I thought of looking what's new on facebook and I saw over 100 friend requests,50+ messages and 99+ notifications so I was kinda scared of what would have happened because if I wasn't active for 4 days at that time I wouldn't get so many notifications. So I checked most of them and there were my videos posted all over my wall and all my EX friends cyberbullying me and saying bad things about me and making fun of me and when i got to delete them all, i wanted to see what the videos look like and when i looked at the comments it was all filled with 'kill yourself' 'i am ashamed that we share the same name' 'i cant believe you were my best friend' 'i cant be seen with you ever again' 'i think i've just lost my hearing' 'you should end up your life' and so on but all of them were from people from my school and from my town and i honestly wanted to delete them in that night but I couldn't because my account got hacked so they are STILL there. I had the worst birthday. After  I got home from the training camp, I had to go to school and everyone started to push me into walls, call me names, point at me, laugh at me, steal my things and throw them, imitate me and trying to be cool, of course they are I mean, sure... making someone feel worthless is making you cool, right ? they still do that. I am still being bullied because of them.  My dream is to become a singer. I gave up on youtube even though the embarrassing videos are still there, I can't do anything about them. People just won't grow up and realise that it was ages ago. I am not afraid to say that I love Justin Bieber. I stand up for myself. I've learned that if I ignore them, it's better. I've been through depressions, I started to cut, it became an addiction, I don't really get sleep, only like 3 hours everyday. I am always sad but I try to smile and make them wonder why I am still smiling.  I am trying to be a strong person and so should you. I have so many suicidal thoughts at night but I don't know what is stopping me... I am just trying to show you that even though someone is telling you that you can't do something, it doesn't mean that you have to give up or listen to them. You have to turn your back and say 'watch me' .. or  just try your best and become better through years, just like I did. My covers are the most famous covers on a lookalike youtube website that my country doesnt know about. It's true that this situation made me go from that loud popular girl to that shy unseen girl and I don't have friends anymore and I spend all my days on the internet because people forget that we have feelings too and words do hurt but it also made me a better person. I am a good person. I always try to help everyone and I am glad I found this project. I would like to help heaps of you. Just believe in yourself. Everything is gonna be alright.

EEOC is refusing to forward a copy of my file to me under F.O.I.A. (Freedom of Information Act). This case is from when I was FORCED to resign from my previous employer, which was reported on numerous occasions to the perpetrator, as well as the Director of Human Resources upon my FORCED resignation from Hilton Hotels Corporation due to: -Sex Discrimination (federal offense); -Sexual Harassment by Management in the presence of other employees (federal offense); -Hostile Work Environment (federal offense). Previous employer mentioned supra I was forced to resign from was under a federal monitor for Theft of Proprietary Information & Theft of Intellectual Property Rights from one of its competitors. My previous employer had to pay this competitor approximately $153,000,000.00 for these criminal offenses. http://amlawdaily.typepad.com/starwoodcomplaint.pdf http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2010/12/22/hilton-and-starwood-settle-dispute/?_r=0 http://us.mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSN1518265820100115?ca=rdt http://www.businesspundit.com/10-most-notorious-acts-of-corporate-espionage/ I could go into more detail, but I could explain it better over the phone. Thank you. Daniel Lea 504-908-4922

My name is Raymond, i was born with a serious skin condition (Discoid Lupus). there is spot right on the middle of my nose, its been there all my life. my bullies did't come around until i entered the fifth grade. i was the ONLY the kid with a rednose and patches all over my head. the bullies started calling me names like rudolph, rednose raymond, spotty, and the list goes on and on.