Here are two stories about bullying. Can you identify with any of the people involved? Have you ever heard people at your school talking or acting like this?
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Abdi: I start walking to school and I feel sick. I go out to recess or lunch and I feel sick. When it’s home time I get this really bad feeling. Often on the way to the lockers Steve and Hong push me up against the wall, or grab my school bag and won’t give it back, or get me in a headlock and won’t let go till I say ‘mercy’. I walk the long way home because if I go past the bus stop where Steve and Hong are waiting with their mates, they throw things at me and call me a poofter or a faggot. |
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Other Year 8s: Steve and Hong always pick on someone. People usually just try to kind of be their friend and laugh along with them. If Abdi really feels bad about it he should just go and see the teacher. Anyway, it’s not our problem to try and sort it out. |
