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My side of the way adult help or face challenges
February 18, 2025
I am 8th grade actually I have a friend she and me were bullied by some boys of our class. these two use to bully and one boy I don’t know why. I talked to the teacher so she take care of this. please be confident or speak to an adult whom you know.
Ria’s Stand Against Cyberbullying
February 5, 2025
In my freshman year of high school, I was cyberbullied along with other kids on an Instagram account under our school’s name right before our finals. I was stressed and worried, and I felt like there was no way out. But knowing that other people were going through the same cyberbullying, I set up meetings with the principal at my school, contacted authorities for help, and even attempted to start a club to raise awareness. However, the police and principal said cyberbullying was too much of a gray area to even send an email about, the club was rejected because it was too “CS-oriented” to raise awareness about cyberbullying, and I was constantly met with rejection. After finding that I wasn’t the only one facing rejection, and there were so many people who were in the same boat as me, I was determined to continue raising awareness about online safety.
I began learning about cybersecurity and started campaigns, working with other high schoolers who had similar experiences. During this time, I realized the same issues also affected my local middle school, the one my brother went to. That’s when I realized that I had to do more than that. Posters weren’t enough to match the deaths of millions of teenagers affected by cyberbullying, the shocking statistics of the number of teenagers online that face cyberbullying, and the possibility of my brother facing cyberbullying. I wanted people to hear me and hear my voice. I wanted people to hear the voices of teenagers like me who go through the same experiences. The issue isn’t just the teenagers; parents also struggle with knowing how to limit or monitor their child’s device usage and in many cases don’t have the resources to ensure their kids are safe when online. Later, around June, one year after the incident, I started an online safety initiative called Cyber For Youth (C4Y), aimed at helping students and their parents navigate the online world safely. So far, ironically, we have delivered a workshop regarding digital footprints and cyberbullying to my freshman grade at school. Knowing that they had the resources that I couldn’t receive my freshman year, knowing that I had made an impact that they actually took, and knowing that I had made some changes to the system made me feel like something could change.
Bullying at school
January 21, 2025
When I went to school I was constantly bullied. I was called names had my dinner money taken away. I was punched. I was also shoved and tripped over. I was laughed at.
The Frenemy
December 12, 2024
So there was this girl let’s call her E. E would be my friend 1 minute and not the other she says really mean stuff and punches me but I don’t know if it bullying if I hit her back.
year one
November 11, 2024
when i was in year one everyday i would go to school and this one boy would swear at me because i wanted to be friends with his little brother and everyday i would go home and say a brand new swear word every day soon my mum noticed and went to the principal’s office and the boy got suspended but that didn’t stop him
Autism
November 5, 2024
I am on the autism spectrum so I am more different then other people I get bullied because and some of them don’t believe I have autism. But I know that I should stand up against bullying and you should too.
help
October 30, 2024
I tried to get away but they kept hurting me and my friends the next day we stood up and they left us alone so remember if your heart feels like you’re not important I’m here.
bully
October 18, 2024
I had a crush on this girl and people started bullying me at first I thought they would stop but they beat me up so know I don’t trust them
don’t bully
October 14, 2024
I was at lunch and this kid said Brayden did you know if you are fat you are pregnant and everybody laughs
Blind Side
October 7, 2024
I was playing football for gym with my class. A kid who has bullied me for a year and a half is also in the class. A kid on my team threw the football and it hit this bully “down below”, he turned around and decided to hit me down below. I decided to tackle him and told him to leave me alone. When I started to turn around he hit me in the eye. I could stop throwing up, sweating, I couldn’t see straight and talking was too hard. My mom took me to the hospital and they did a CT scan and sent us home with a concussion protocol. Then 6 days later I was still sick to my stomach and I started to vomit so my dad took me to the ER, they assumed it was a stomach bug. My mom felt something was off so on Monday, a week after my concussion she took me to the pediatrician. The pediatrician noticed some numbness and my eye wasn’t working right. She immediately sent us to the ER for a new and larger CT scan. After meeting with a whole lot of doctors they determined I had a fracture on my orbital bone and my muscle was stuck in the fracture. The following day I had surgery and they also had to put a metal plate on my orbital bone. That was 2 days ago.