Assignment 10: Bullying

     Bullying is so much more then the physical beatings we see today. You can be bullied in so many ways now a days. There is physical, verbal, emotional, cyber, and many others. Children are being bullied everyday, and its hurting them so much more then what is being seen. After watching the bullied video about a man named Jamie Nabozny, I began to have even more sympathy for the bullied kids out there then I already had. The movie was about this kid named Jamie who was being bullied for coming out about this sexuality. It was getting so bad that he ran away from home, because he didn't want to see those kids anymore. Having to deal with the bullying that was happening wasn't only hurting him, but it was hurting his family. Then when he had spoken to a woman who told him that he should take the school to court, he did and won a lot of money. I know that the money wasn't the best thing that came out of it for Jamie, but he got the chance to be free of the bullying that was going on for most of his life, and he also helped many other kids out there who are going through the same thing. While watching the movie I was thinking about the terrible things that he had to go through but also the help that he didn't get. Jamie told the school principle and vice principle many times what was going on, but he never got the help tat he needed. When they got to court the principle was denying everything.

     I have never really got bullied in my life, there has been times where I got laughed at for being myself, and for the things that I liked, but not to the point where I don't want to go back to school. When I was being made fun of for being the fun and goofy person I am at school, I got sad at the moment, but then felt like I didn't need to impress anyone and continued to be myself. I think that this is the reason why I am such a shy person now, because as I was growing up I was scared to be myself, and to scared to be laughed at. When I see someone being bullied I want to go and save that person who is being bullied, and I get so mad at that bully, but I'm not the kind of person to intervene in someone else business. I wish that I could stand up for anyone who was being bullied, but I don't have the courage to intervene in someone else business.