[Hopefull]

I just watched a DVD on bullying in the schools. I am in the mood to rant to someone about my past experiences of being bullied. So, here goes my rant.
I thought I would warn you first that this nothing more than a rant.
They threw rocks at me during recess and food at me during lunch. I had a kid drop a bug into my hair once. I have had a student SPIT chewing gum into my hair. The teacher had to cut the gum out of my hair. I was crying of course. I have gotten letters left on my desk that the devil has his eye on me. One said that he knew where I lived. My French workbook was stolen once. I know it was stolen because it desappeared at the begininning of the year. Then, at the end of the year, I walked a way from my books for a while and came back to see the original French workbook sitting in with my books. I had to pay for a new workbook which is not something that I like to have to spend money on.
The teacher would tell me to tell them who did it. But, I am terrible at face recognition and couldn't identify the students. So I was always the one who got in to trouble if I tried to fight back.
My step-father thought that picking on me at home would strengthen my skin so that it wouldn't bother me at school. What a ridiculous theory? I repeatedly made suicidal comments as a kid. What was my step-father's response? "Once you're suicidal, you're hopeless." This remark made my blood boil. When I was in elementary school, the school made my mom take me to see some woman. She told me to walk away when they pick on me. She had no concept of being unable to do anything about it because you can't leave the school grounds and can't recognize faces. It is certainly enough to make me feel helpless in a ways. So now society sees me as the "patient." Maybe the "patient" is my bad experiences and not me.
Thanks for letting me rant about things.

[Rapunzel]

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I just want to let you know that you're not alone. I experienced a lot of the same things you did, including the gum. Sometimes I think that people who haven't been a victim of bullying can't know what it was like.

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[Fuzzybear]

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"Maybe the "patient" is my bad experiences and not me"

There is a lot of truth in that....sending you my support....

(((( Hopefull ))))

I'm so sorry that happened to you.

[kimthecatlover]

I was teased when I was a child too. In high school it only got worse. I went to a public high school in a small town. Since I was living in a group home for 'troubled' teenage girls, I already had one strike against me. The group home was not welcome because there were 'minority' residents living there...and this was the late 1970's(Evidently no one in that small town heard of CIVIL RIGHTS). The second thing was that I was 'special needs' because of problems with math,coordination, and speech..the kids at school, especially guys, teased and bullied me, called me 'geek' and 'spaz' even after I succeded in joining the school's track and field team...I wonder why the school personnel did NOTHING to step in and stop it..and why kids(and some adults)think it's cool, fun, and perfectly okay to tease people who are 'different' in any way from them.

[Sarah116]

At most schools around where I live have anti bully programs.

[Hopefull]

Yeah, the tape that I watched was an effort by one of the news channels to get the schools to work more on anti-bullying efforts. It sounds like the schools are taking it seriously unlike when I was a kid. I am glad of that.