Jees... That kid's only a year older than my baby brother.
I'd be destroyed if he did something like that, especially over bullying. I mean, my baby brother has spoken to me before and I've threatened to beat the s**t outa the kids who have been bullying him.
But bullying is a major problem, I've had to deal with it most of my school life and it's not been fun to say the least. It's horrible when people call me names because of my sexuality, given the fact that is something very personal, and quite private, especially given the fact that my bullies don't actually know what my sexualiy is.
Thinking back though, I think I first time I ever really cut was when I was about that age as well, mainly because of stuff at home and how bad school had got.
My Ma knows about the stuff at school now, and has complained about it. I've given up now because it does nothing postive makes it worse.
The school tells the people who have done something that I've told them, they say they didn't, they leave it at that, and the girls come after me.
I've been told everytime something happens I have to tell them so they can build up a case, which is a load of s**t really, the most they've done is excluse 3 of the girls that hopsitalised me on the weekend after my birthday for 5 f***ing days, the next monday they were back shouting at me, well I suppose at least then they weren't pushing me about during the day as well.
Schools need to take cases of bullying more seriously, listen to people and actually talk to them instead of making them fill out stupid forms that are going no where. If they don't, things like this are going to become all too familiar and it's horrible thinking about how many young lives could be wasted because of the schools and their blatent refusal to listen to its pupils and actually have the balls to act on what's going on.
I mean, come on, I was told once that I had to just take what [name] did as she'd had a rough background, to which I replied, well mine's not exactly been great either. Another thing that happened was one of my friends was being beaten up in the hall just because she was wearing too much eyeliner and her hair was at the time black, the head teacher just stood in the entrace hall. We asked her what the hell she was doing and why she was letting it happen, and she said she wasn't, so I told her Whatever, she turned round to me and directed a rather upsetting comment as my therapist said I'd been doing really well. She directed at me a comment which was, Some people need to control their anger, sophie. I was almost in tears walking off shouting at her, Well maybe some people need to control their school you stupid slag.
I know from talking to friends, things like aren't issolated, apparently it happens a lot more than people think.
Together, schools and pupils need to find a way to fight this before it gets even more out of hand than it already is, it's not good for anyone and really needs reasessing.
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