All my life I have been different. Although, I am mostly teased about my weight. I repetitively hear about it everyday. I have even lost friends because of that reason. Now, even my old friends talk about me. I have told teaches, principals and all, although, who does it help? They don't do anything. And if they do say something it is "If you were skinnier they  wouldn't pick on you." I hear son much about why don't I  tell the teacher, but really the only real problem here is my massive weight, and im only in 6th grade being almost to 200lbs...

The Archbishop Riordan Drama Department raised awareness and funds from our production of You're A Good Man Charlie Brown, which closed April 6th.  During our two week run the cast walked down the aisles after the curtain call and collected donations from our audiences totaling more than $1,200 (and more donations are still coming in).  We are proud to send this donation, to help stop bullying!

 

 

The company of You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown raised over $1,200!

The movie Bully was awesome but sad at the same time.  As a teacher I do see kids getting bullied and try to stop it but unfortunately there is not much support for administration.  I've heard things from Principals like "you are mistaken, that student is not a bully."  Parents are even worse.  They say things like "not my child or someone must have done something first."  Bullying is not going to change unless everyone is on board.  Kids, if you are being bullied SPEAK UP!  Someone will eventually listen.  Find that one teacher who truly cares about his/or her students, you know who they are.  Stand up for yourself, you are your best advocate.  All fellow teachers, we can stop bullying!  Pay attention to what is going on in your classroom and school!  Be there for your students!  If you can't or won't, why are you still teaching?

I defended those who were bullied in school and spent time in detention and suspension outright for INTERFERING!!!!! The schools punished me for stopping abuse.  One person I protected was being bullied for being too EFFEMINATE is now my best friend and GOD-FATHER to my daughter. I did not stop defending the bullied!  Even after 40 years, I still defend.

no I was younger I was bullied mostly while I was in.middle school I was called.names an I had no friends so I would go to the library everyday during lunch because.no one wanted to sit or talk to me on the bus the kids.would.hit.me.take me glasses N make fun of me I was too ashamed to tell my parents because.I wanted them to think I was popular an had friends during class I began to just lay my head down.an act like I was sleeping but the kids would still flick my ears an the teacher would.never step in so I started begging my mom to stay home from school started acting like I was sick all the time because I was so afraid to go to school my parents didnt.know that every night I.cried myself to sleep an one day I just couldnt take it anymore and tried committing suicide so my parents thought I was depressed an put me on medicine finally when I got to highschool I started working out an nobody bothered me anymore I have three boys now N I will never allow them to endure what I had to nor will I allow them to become a bully

Since I was 11, I've been bullied badly. Not much physically but more mentally. I wasn't always the prettiest or most popular. My friends turned on me to become the popular group. I was always alone. I would cry when I get home. Since then I tried committing suicide 2 times while my parents stopped me. They would call me whale or when we were watching movies with "ugly" animals in science the kids would refer those animals to me. Eventually, I got tired of it and ignored everyone. After 4 years of hard bullying that included heartbreaks, crying, being hurt, being alone, it ended in the middle of freshman year. I am now a sophomore with good friends. If you just ignore them they think you song care and will stop. Bully's bully you to hurt you on purpose. Act like it doesn't affect. It works. I promise.

its always been said JaDe'ja is a loser and will never have any friends she is stupid and is in Special Ed.

I am a 13 year old girl who goes to high school and do everything to avoid being bullied and it is really hard to understand why people would do it.

I am a normal girl that just want to make friends and I do have some but some of them aren't true. I just want to fit in like every one else but it gets worse.

I have to call my mom because it happens all the time when im in the restroom girls throw things at me and I cry and just stay in the stall. I just want to know what wrong with them.

I have a lazy eye which is where one eye isn't as strong as the other and somehow I need to strengthen it.  I don't do this anymore but when I was younger I used to wear a foam patch over my strong eye.  I would have to wear this for around 8 hours a day which sucked because I had issues seeing anything.  My mom and dad would sit with me and make me read children's books like the Little Critter books by Mercer Mayer.  My parents and my brother would be really encouraging about wearing it and they would make patches for me out of fun patterns and colors.  I was fine with patching until I had to go out into public.  I remember one specific time when I was probably 7 years old.  I was walking through Walmart with my mom and I was pushing the shopping cart.  This mother was with her two children, both of her children looked under 5 years old.  This mother looked like she was having a nice time shopping with her kids then suddenly she stopped when she saw me and my mom.  I smiled and waved but all she did was stare.  Then the lady pulled her kids into her and walked away really fast like she had seen someone with a gun pulled out.  All her kids did was stare at me until they were out of sight.  When I asked my mom why the kids and the lady were staring at me, my mom would tell me they weren't used to seeing someone look different.  As a seven year old kid I didn't understand how I was different.  I knew it was because I had the patch on my eye but I always thought it looked cool.

The next time we went shopping another lady did the same thing with her kids.  Every time we went to a store and I had my patch on somebody was always staring at me and I was uncomfortable all the time.  Suddenly, one time my mom had had enough of their staring and she cracked.  The next time someone's kids stared at me my mom told the mother," Why don't you tell your kids how rude they are by staring.  And why don't you get some manners yourself.  Did anybody tell you it's rude to stare?  Just because my daughter has a piece of foam on her eye doesn't mean you can look at her in that way."

Now as I look back I realize how ignorant some people can be and I now know that I can't let it get to me.  I also know that if I ignore the bullies, they will leave you alone.  Bullies are there because they want a reaction.  Just stay positive and don't be a pessimist and it'll all be over at some point.

Just watched Bully a couple of nights ago. The following day I had to goggle your name to see how you are doing. You look like your doing great!!!! So happy to see that. I have been a football coach for over 20 years, never have I had a player with as much heart as you or as tough as you are. I dream of having a player with you swag. 

I just felt the need for a lil  reach out to ya. I live in So. California and work in the motion picture industry. If your ever out this way contact me and ill give you and any guest(s) a tour of what ever show I am working on at the time. You are a TRUE HERO Alex!!!!! 

Thanks for making the world a better place!

Nickolas Culp

Through out my years of elementary school and high school, I've always struggled with certain things; like certain subjects I learned in school, and being able to understand people. Sometimes, I was even shy around people when I first met them. The reason why I struggled with those things so much is because I have a learning disability and an intellectual disability. I had brain surgery at 3 years old and had to learn how to eat, speak, and go to the bathroom all over again. In school, I was bullied for being different and acting different. Not many people in school understood what I had and I think that is why most people who didn't have disabilities stayed away from me. The worst time for me was when I was in elementary school. Being in elementary school, you are learning a LOT of things especially when it comes to social skills. Most of the popular kids teased me for being different and they would belittle me, call me names, use me. And one time I had to take this dumb test just to be apart of the popular group and they got me to do stupid things especially do a cartwheel (like, anyone can do that)! I even remember this one time when I tried out for Volleyball and this one girl who was part of the popular group just kept talking to me saying things like I wouldn't make it or that I wasn't good enough to make it. I never made the cut and I got so upset and I just wanted to cry because of what she did to me. When I first went to my high school (which went from grade 7 all the way to grade 12) I was bullied for the amount of hair I have on my body. (I'm half Portuguese, Polish, French Canadian, and Native Canadian). It wasn't my fault I had so much hair, it was apart of who I was. But all the time I looked at the most popular girls in my grade and I always wished I had less hair on my body like them (I didn't really know how to use a razor at 14 years old). It hurt me a lot that I would always look at my arms that have lots of hair on them. The things they said were hurtful and I just held it inside pretending like nothing happened. In grade 9, I was brutally bullied for liking a guy. His friends would come up to me and start asking me questions or telling me stuff about him that were not very nice. They bothered me and bothered me everyday and I held it all inside and locked it away from my teachers. But my friends who were around me noticed it, they just didn't think I was bothered by it. One day I finally broke and started crying because of something someone had said about him that made me feel very bad and he knew it would make me feel bad and my teacher got upset with me because I never told the teachers that I was being bullied. Once it got settled with the Vice Principal; everything was good for a while until a big rumour about me threatening someone to stay away from the guy I liked spread pretty quickly and everyone believed it (including the teachers). That whole week, I cried and cried and cried. Everyday, I would go home and cry in the basement with my music on REALLY loud. My mom thought I was only crying because of the guy I liked, but it was not only because of that; it was because I was getting bullied by his friends because I liked him. In grade 12; they decided to take to the internet and start bullying me again like they did back in grade 9 and this time they teased me about a different guy I liked. But luckily this time, I had people to back me up and stuck up for me. Because of all the bullying; I became scared to try out extra-curricular activities that I normally didn't do and was secretly kind of afraid to be inside of a classroom because I was always worried about how hard the work was going to be for me and if I was going to pass the test or not. But the truth is, we are all different and even though we wish to be someone else sometimes; we shouldn't try to change ourselves because who we are is what makes us unique and if people are going to tell you otherwise, then they're not worth your time. I let bullies put fear in me to try out different things that they wouldn't normal see me do because of what they said to me. You should NEVER EVER let a bully get to and tell you that you're weird or different in a bad way, because you're different in a good way and that's what makes you special!! :)