bullies, nothing more than scum (Bullying in Schools)

Member Name: mr blonde

Product:	Bullying in Schools
Date:	12/12/01 (38 review reads)
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Advantages: none

Disadvantages: life becomes miserable, live in fear, no self esteem

Like my opinion suggests, i have an extremely low opinion of those cowardice enough to bully those who may be inferior to them in strenght, or those that go around in gangs on the streets looking for people to bully, they are little more than scum, and hace absolutely no charecter, let alone guts in their entire bodies.

On this subject i am speaking from experience, i was bullied for 7 years because of my size, and the only way i eventually got away from the bullies, was quite simply by earning their respect, which meant a hell of a lot of fighting, 6 occasions in isolation in school, aswell as 2 suspensions, all just because i decided i had had enough, and the school would do nothing to help, because they didn't believe that someone of my size could be bullied, so i had to deal with it myself.

In primary school i was bullied because i never wore the right trainers, or had the right haircut, or because i hadn't kissed a girl by year 6, which i personally thought even then was just pathetic, kids of age 10/11 bullying other kids, just cos they hadn't kissed someone yet. In high school the bullying started on the 1st day, some brats in my class as soon as i walked in calling me lurch, funny thinking about it now, but it hurt more than any physical wound at the time. Then the bullying got more serious and led into me getting into fights with several people, and because i fought back, i got punished, there always has seemed to me, to be a rule for one, and a rule for another in my school life.

I have always had to work my ass off to get any respect from everyone in school, and being in the 6th form has been the same, the people in it are so shallow as people it is beyond belief, and because of that i keep the people i class as true freinds minimal.

Anyway, back to the bullying, the bullying got worse and soon enough it was really getting me down to the point of doing something that i thought was a crazy idea, suicide, an
d that is something i have only ever admitted to 2 people, but i have finally gained the confidence in myself as a person in the last few months to realise that it was nothing to be ashamed of, my self esteem went from normal, to seriously bad, i couldn't even stand how i looked, and i just wanted to be someone else, if it meant that the bullying would stop.

Now those days have passed though, and i have a really good relationship with most people in my freindship group, i have discovered that i have something that will always get me through the bad times, and will always help me to stop the bullying, and that is my witt, maybe it is naturally bred into us scousers, but i have it, and it is razor sharp, people try and call me things now, and i just twist it, and turn it back on them with some pithy comeback, i no longer have to fight, because i am now at a size where people have no choice but to respect me.

I haven't had a fight in over 3 years, which i could claim was the one fight that finally stopped the bullying, because that was when people realised that i didn't care anymore, i only hit the lad 3 times, but after he had bullied me for 2 years, i finally cracked, and all of the rage i had felt in those 2 years came back, and i really smacked him one, i broke his nose, and even his cousin who was there backed off, so i had the last laugh, and it was about time.

I went to boxing and did some martial arts because i wanted to learn to defend myself, i think it paid off, because although i did have a lapse, it also taught me to be focussed, and now after all of the bullying, all of the bullies have ended up in dead end jobs, with no life, wheras i have gained good qualifications, i am working on A levels in 6th form, i even did nightschool last year to gain a city and guilds qualification, it looks to me when i reflect on things, that only one person got the last laugh, ME!

I hope this review will inspire others to figh
t back against the bullies, i am currently helping out a kid who gets my school bus, they have been taking money off him, and i reported it, he now sits by me, and that way the bullies can't get to him, even the fact that he knows there is someone there for him helps, i know that all to well, i had to do things my way, because my parents never realised how bad it was, and the teachers wouldn't do anything to help me, don't let someone you care about go through the same, it is the worst thing possible to allow to go on, it messes you up physically, because you always want to change how you look, and it messes you up mentally because you live in fear.

I can't give help lines or anything like that, because i never used them, but anyone who is going through this, just tell someone who cares about you, a freind or family, so long as someone else knows you will always feel just a little better knowing they are looking out for you. If anyone want to get in touch with me over what they are going through, then just get in touch, my e mail addy is on my profile, i will always make time for those who are having to put up with the kind of crap i had to go through.

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