Friday, October 12, 2012

How Sad: Bullied Girl Kills Herself

From the San Francisco Chronicle: Last month Canadian teen Amanda Todd posted a heart-wrenching YouTube video (above) sharing her story of being bullied both on and off the Internet. On Wednesday night, the 15-year-old Vancouver-area teen was found dead. ” Today authorities confirmed that she took her own life.
Todd created her video, titled “My Story: Struggling, bullying, suicide and self harm,” by writing down her tragic story on cue cards, and then sharing them, one sentence at a time. She remains completely silent.
Her powerful video tells the tragic story of a teen who was bullied at school and online ever since middle school. She shares how an anonymous Facebook user pressured her to share a naked photo of herself and how the video was circulated all over online. She reveals that she was depressed, drinking too much, taking drugs, hurting herself.  http://blog.sfgate.com/sfmoms/2012/10/12/tragedy-bullied-canadian-teen-commits-suicide-saddens-people-everywhere/
Bullying is a real problem in school.  Most kids usually can handle the pressure, as long as the bullying doesn't go overboard.
But there are times when the bullying goes overboard and the kid cannot handle it.  That's when adults have to step in and deal with it.  Whether the adult is a teacher or other school employee, the family or a family friend.  but sometimes the adults don't want to be bothered by it and then tragedies like this happen.
If you see someone being bullied, please do something about it.  Please don't think the kid being bullied is a wimp or can handle the problem.
RIP Amanda

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