I was the kid everyone loved to pick on in school. I felt several times like I wanted to lash out and hurt these people. In todays' paper a kid was suspended for writing the names of other student's down and saying he was "going to get them." Now I don't condone violence, but I imagine these other students were inflicting harm on him to cause this reaction. Rather than investigate the cause of the problem (this kids on the list) the principal chose to suspend the kid who wrote the list.
I learned quickly that telling the teacher when someone was mean to me didn't work. I sat and suffered for years. I had spit balls hurled at me. Kids called me names for being overweight and one girl stuffed a bra into my backpack (fat people develop fat in their chest) Now the system has turned against those few who are refusing to sit and suffer - further repressing those being picked on.
I'm not saying school violence is right, but the problem isn't entirely with the one committing the violence
2006-10-04
04:06:34
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