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By: Bullying…what are we to do? « Third Grade Musings

Bullying…what are we to do? « Third Grade Musings — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 03:50:36 +0000

[...] We have learned that students are committing suicide simply to escape their bullies. Phoebe Prince hung herself due to harassment she endured through text messaging and Facebook. In a historic [...]

By: Kylie Tyler

Kylie Tyler — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:09:49 +0000

Thankyou Dr Phill for giving victims of bullying a voice, and i agree with everything you have said. I think the school administrators need to be held accountable for not preventing such a tragety, we send our children to school and into thier care it is thier duty to provide a safe environment for them. As for the parents they to need to feel the full force of the law and be held accountable as do their children.
As a mother of two children i am constantly checking there phones and facebook pages, we as parents need to be vigilent.

I to was a victim of bullying as a child and have suffered psychological damage that has followed me into adult hood. I find it hard to make friends as i dont trust people and when i do they dont last as i attract the wrong people into my life and seek out the adult equivielent of a bully. As i sit here i am wondering if i still have a job tommorro because i finally walking out been unable to cope due to been bullyed.

By: Vicki

Vicki — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 04:58:03 +0000

I am a middle school teacher who is studying to become an administrator. One of the reasons I chose this profession was to do my best to put a stop to the bullying and teasing that occurs in schools. I had such a miserable middle school experience with no assistance from the staff that I vowed to do my best to make life better for at least one child each year so they would never have to go through what I had to endure. When I become a principal I WILL see to it that things will be done differently under my watch. I am hoping to influence others to follow my lead. I don’t buy the “kids will be kids” comment, and when I hear it, I promptly squash any thought that this would be OK. I proudly have my “ally” sign in the window of my classroom and have established my 7th grade pod as a “safe-space” for all students. I do my best to teach coping skills to my bullied students as well as my bullies. Bullying is simply not tolerated and there is no discussion about allowing this behavior. I have done inservices and my building knows I will not listen to the excuses or justifications about why someone did or said something. I have been in this profession 20 years now, and I am confident I can make a difference. More teachers need to have the courage to stand up for what is right and follow through with it, regardless of the parents and their influence. I am straight with my students and their families and will continue to be. If their child is a bully, I tell them. I offer help and strategies. If they are going to act that way at home, I can’t change it, but I will not tolerate it at school. Students are told to leave facebook, msn, etc., outside when the day begins. Kudos to you Dr.Phil for taking a stand on this issue. I wish more people would figure this out!

By: shaffiate

shaffiate — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 23:57:38 +0000

i,m the father of kristian the muslim teen bullied in staten island new york and i know when a child dont want you to know that they being bullied the parent can ask many times and the child will not say , we meet the teachers that know he was being beaten and they says to us nothing is going on in school .we did ask him over and over again if eny one is bothing him in school, he says no ,and when we meet teachers in school to ask about him, theys says that no nothing is wrong in school, we took him to the docter and 3 specialist ,we did mri . eeg , counseling, and he use to change in the shower .so we never see his injuries we though he was going a change of being 16 ,we suffered a whole year of watching became sad and lonly and could not do eny thing to help him,then went to high school and try to make a new start ,and see two of the kids in school ,one of the kids was in his class and one day the kid in his class started to throw paper at him and was calling gay again and had 2 new kids calling him gay also,so now 3 of them was picking on him again,so thank god he think to him self i can.t take this again,so he told me what happen in class and i call the the principal and they talk to the kids and but they did not stop and thats when he told me what happen in is 51 markham ,so he was trying to move on but ,because one kid think that he did not do enought to hurt my son in middle school and wanted to hurt him again my son talk and you will not beleive the horrors that my told me that they did to him,spit in his lunch pee in his bag hit him in front the teachers ,kickinh in the groin over and over again everyday now he is so sad he dont play music he dont go out alone he dont smile we love him so much but we cant give him ahug he dont want eny one to touch him and they hurt him so bad and for so long that he has no emotions ,some times i wish he would let open and just have good cry but .only time and god will help him ,

By: KERI

KERI — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 02:54:49 +0000

I agree one hundred percent that bullying needs to STOP!! I am a fifth grade school teacher. What many people don’t understand is that we really do care. I spend most of my day counseling and dealing with bullying situations. I always try to help my students, but we need more resources in our schools to help with this problem.

By: Jean Alan

Jean Alan — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 02:19:01 +0000

I am really glad to see that someone as influential as Dr. Phil is on a campaign to stop bullying and hope that others will add their voices to his. I was bullied all the way through public school and thought about suicide many times. I believe the few times I stood up for others who were also bullied only made me more of a target; my own sister said I brought this on myself and my home unfortunately was impossibly dysfunctional. I had nowhere to turn.

Many years after high school I tried to kill myself by cutting my wrists. I was also diagnosed with being mentally ill and I know that I am. But it didn’t help when one day we were driving past a corner where there were a group of teenagers. For some reason they started booing and jeering at me and my husband as we drove past. I had no understanding as to why they would do this and when we got home I seriously considered suicide for the first time in over a decade. Why does the pain have to come rushing back in after years of silence? Why is the victim blamed every time?

I remember back in high school I went to a teacher for help because of a guy who was constantly pulling my hair in class. She said that he had a crush on me and did nothing else even though I was in tears. In the school cafeteria the popular guys all walked past me where I was sitting by myself and piled their dirty dishes on top of mine. Maybe they all had a crush on me??!! Teachers are blind to what is going on….or are they? Maybe they were the bullies growing up and they still live that way vicariously or maybe they were just jealous of me and thought I needed taking down a notch. Who knows? The only desire I remember from back then was that I wanted to be left alone.

By: annette huneault

annette huneault — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 16:57:13 +0000

This is a very sad case. such a lovely girl to be bullied like that.And it make me so mad what the heck are school doing about this? and these girls that bullied her what were they thinking? it got to the point where the girl killed herself over this. Shame on those girls that were responsible for this. if you could live with yourself after the girl killed herself because of your bullying then I say you have no heart whatsover.

By: Jayson_Bryan

Jayson_Bryan — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 17:29:54 +0000

I cant believe this. I myself am a teen who has been bullyed since a young age. I am a senior at Vsta Rdge High School doing a project called Senior Project. Its a research paper in which we get to choose our topics. I have chosen school bullying and am curently still doing resaerch on it. My teacher gave me the link to this blog and i had to check it out. I want to help those who are curently being bullied and stop the bullies from doing so. This whole thing is just rediculse and we need to do something about it. Aparently bullying is over looked by many people including the very witnesses that veiw it. I was just wandering if someone could tell me how to get in touch with Dr. Phil. I would love to talk to him about this.

By: FosterBoys

FosterBoys — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:54:18 +0000

He’s committed felony murder. Any death that occurs during the commission of a felony is deemed as such, regardless of the actor’s intentions. As for her heart condition, she could have been on death’s doorstep because of it, but BUT FOR HIS ACTIONS, she would not have crossed the threshold that day.

Makes you think about the value of a day. What might she have accomplished if she had lived just one more day?

By: FosterBoys

FosterBoys — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:56:36 +0000

A man walks into a bank to rob it. He leaves empty-handed, but on his way out, the bank teller he held at gunpoint drops dead of a heart attack.

He is soon apprehended. Can he be charged with the teller’s death?

Before trial, it is discovered that not only was he using a child’s toy gun, but that the teller already suffered from a serious heart condition, for which she was taking several medications.

I’ll come back later with the answer for anyone who’s interested.