Real Kids Speak Out

Bully

The new kid loved flowers and still does. That is a good thing.
The end.

owls

I have always loved owls but…
I get bullied for liking them because kids at work think they are horrible.

It’s a battle, really.

When I was really young, about 5 or 6 I was so much smaller and just overall skinner and shorter than everyone. Nobody said anything. But a few years later I weighed more. I was over weight. From 3rd grade, and still going on now, people have made fun.

It’s never a fun feeling and it overall makes you feel bad. People who say unkind things don’t care about the outcome in the victims life. People say mean stuff, and go online.

I know that anyone who goes through this won’t listen to the whole "it gets better" story. But it does.

I wish I could do more about this. I hate seeing people hurt. I hate that people think there’s no point. Everyone deserves to be happy. No matter what.

Be a Buddy, Not a Bully

A Comegys Afterschool Production
Hook written by Diamond Houston (4th grade)
Verses written by Keion Marshall* (7th grade)

Recorded and filmed by Howe Pearson at B.B. Comegys Elementary School in Philadelphia, PA
Featuring Sam Friedman on toy piano

Be a buddy, not a b-b-b-b-bully
Be a buddy, not a b-b-b-b-bully
Be a buddy, not a b-b-b-b-bully
Not a b-b-b-b-bully, not a b-b-b-b-bully

*It’s like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder how to keep from going under
It’s like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder how to keep from going under*

I said I’m tired of being bullied, every single day
Every corner that I turn there’s a bully to pay
I need a break, quick, break and pause, need to be fixed
Take a step outside my house and I’m caught in the mix
When will it end, the bullying, the teasing?
Picking on the kid you don’t even got a reason
They say they better than us, the lies the lies
Well why don’t they try somebody their own size?
Laughing at us, thinking it’s funny
Picking on kids in school for lunch money
That ain’t the way it’s supposed to be
How can one little fist separate you and me?

**Can’t nobody take my pride, can’t nobody hold me down, oh no, I gotta keep it moving**

New school or old school, we gotta change, rearrange, use our brains to study the chains
They can’t hold me down cuz I’m book smart
For haters who got no love like a broke heart
Never easily broken, y’all are Pop Tarts
Only thing I bully is rappers on hip-hop charts
Lyrically, I’m a miracle to the game, cuz when hip-hop die, his last words are my name, check it
I’ll be resurrected then every second I’ll kick it
I’ll be busting records and getting rid of the wicked
Gotta make, the change, like a dollar bill, sometimes I wonder, why they try to keep me under

Be a buddy, not a b-b-b-b-bully
Be a buddy, not a b-b-b-b-bully
Be a buddy, not a b-b-b-b-bully
Not a b-b-b-b-bully, not a b-b-b-b-bully

*lyrics from Grandmaster Flash
**lyrics from P Diddy

merubah hidup

saat saya sd,saya pernah mengalami di bully.. saya di kucilkan selama 5 tahun,saya tidak pernah bermain atau di ajak bermain.. saat guru memerintakan untuk bekerja kelompok,tidak ada yang ingin sekelompok dengan saya. saya merasa sedih dan stress. saya tidak punya teman di sekolah maupun dirumah.orang orang tidak pernah peduli terhadap saya. saya berusaha menguatkan diri saya. saya menyendiri disana dan tak tau saya harus cerita kemana..saya berpikir untuk menjauhi mereka..saya tersakiti oleh sikap dan tingkah laku mereka terhadap saya.. saya tau saya bisa.saya selalu bersemangat walau tampa teman.dan saat saya pergi meninggalkan sekolah itu dan lanjut ke sekolah menegah atas. saya mempunyai teman baru yang menerima saya. dan itu sangat merubah hidup saya.saya tak lagi perlu takut saya percaya diri untuk pergi. dan itu merubah hiduup saya. tapi kadang kesulitan dalam pertemanan itu sangat memberatkan dan menyakitkan. sahabat kadang membuat kita iri terhadap orang dan kadang merendahkan diri ku juga. kadang sahaat ku banyak peraturanya. iya aku tau tidak ada yang perfect. tapi aku tidak tau harus bagaimana. aku bercita cita menjadi seorang designer atau penyanyi seperti demi lovato. saat aku mengenal pacer itu membuat aku bersemangat.dan aku ingin mensharing apa yang aku pelajari dari website ini. aku akan mengenalkan kepada sekolah ku teman ku sodara ku, serta lingkungan dimana aku berada. apakah aku bisa ikut dengan komunitas ini. aku ingin menghilangkan intimidasi dari teman ku ke teman ku yang lain. aku ingin mengajari mereka. an merubah pola pikir mereka terhadap bullying,merubah kebencian menjadi pertemanan. membantu teman teman u berbicara terhadap apa yang mereka alami. aku ingin membantu mereka yang putus asa. karna aku tau posisi mereka yang di bully. karna aku pernah di bully juga. aku ingin merubah sisi negativ dari oran yang membuly kita. dan aku sangat berterimakasih kepada pacer 🙂

Translation (provided by Google Translate; please excuse errors):

change of life
as I sd, I never experienced in my bully .. isolate for 5 years, I have never played or were invited to play .. when teachers memerintakan for work groups, no one wants to group with me. I feel sad and stressed. I do not have any friends at school and dirumah.orang people never care about me. I am trying to strengthen my self. I was alone there and did not know I had to stay away from the story kemana..saya think mereka..saya hurt by their attitude and behavior towards me .. I know I am always excited could.I even without teman.dan when I left school and up to the high schools. I have new friends who accept me. and it is transforming the lives of me.I no longer need to fear me confident to go. and it changes my hiduup. but sometimes difficulties in friendships that are very burdensome and painful. friends sometimes makes us envious of people and sometimes demeaning myself too. Sometimes my sahaat much unregulated. yes I know there is nothing perfect. but I do not know what to do. I dreamed of becoming a designer or a singer like Demi Lovato. PACER as I know it makes me bersemangat.dan I want mensharing what I learned from this website. I will introduce my friend to my school my Sodara, as well as the environment in which I was. if I could go with this community. I want to eliminate bullying from my friends to my other friends. I want to teach them. late change their mindset towards bullying, hatred becomes perte manan change. helping friends u talk about what they experienced. I want to help those who are desperate. because I know their position in the bully. because I’m never in the bully as well. I want to change the negativ side of the membuly oran us. and I am very grateful to PACER 🙂

Stop it

I got bullied when I was in year 6. There was a girl that I was best friends with I used to think she was really nice. But I was wrong. We were doing maths and I got all the questions wright but she didn’t . I was very happy that I got them all right but she saw my book and started whispering ‘know it all know it all’ I told her to stop it but she kept saying it. We got into an argument and from that day she made my life a misery. She upset me on the carpet and my eyes got all teary then I heard her whisper to my friend ‘oh look the baby is crying why don’t we call her mummy’ they both laughed and the bullie kicked me in the back and said it was an accident. Then one day when we were playing football in PE I was against her i was dribbling the ball to the net and the bullie elbowed me out the way and kicked my leg. Then at the weekend I invited my two best friends to my house and I decided to tell them my problem. They told me that they were both being bullied by her. We told the teacher and guess what… She stopped bulling us. That is how you make them stop it!

The time when i got bullied

I got bullied a lot when i was younger. I was called fat and ugly and it happened every day! I didn’t tell anyone because i thought no one would believe me. It still happened and i finally told a teacher and they helped me. If you are getting bullied tell a teacher or someone you trust.

i am sorry poem

I am sorry that I was mean
I am sorry that I was green
now I will never do that again I hope you won’t do that and be a bully like I was

This is me!

I never understand what I did.
Couldn’t comprehend.
I try and try but to you I’m always a foe not a friend.
I take all you give, but there is only so much before my heart becomes too thin.
Chours!!!(I am different.
But the things you say won’t make a difference.
I am me.
And I’m free to chose who I want to be
Cause This is me.)
I ain’t saying I’m perfect.
There are things I regret
but equality I will try to spread.
I’m confident.
but still a little on the soft end.
Do you not see who you hurting?
Words like that shouldn’t be thrown around like nothing.

(I am different.
But the things you say won’t make a difference.
I am me.
And I’m free to chose who I want to be
Cause This is me.)
It takes a lot to say something.
Not sure what did?
Just talk to a friend.
And in your mind repeat these lines.
(I am different.
But the things you say won’t make a difference.
I am me.
And I’m free to chose who I want to be
Cause This is me.)

Confessions of a Bully

Last year when I was in the second grade, I made fun of a boy for bringing a Barbie doll to school. I convinced a group of kids to come with me and tease him. He started crying and I got in big trouble. My mom explained why I hurt him so bad and she made me write him a letter to apologize, but I still felt bad about it. I wanted to make it up to him and make sure no one ever teased him like that again, so I started an anti-bully club at my school. We meet once a week at school and talk about positive behaviors. We now have over 180 club members! I made a video to show at my club and a lot of people are telling me how much they like it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nod06e3GwNc