Kelly
I heard about Act Against Bullying from my friends mum. I looked them up online. The advice from them was the best. “If you can’t enter a group, then start your own.” It was the turning point. I didn’t care about the cool gang any more. I was my own person. The bullying stopped. I made friends with someone who was “out”. Now everyone wants to be in my group because we have fun. We are all different. We like each other. “I’ll always be grateful to Act Against Bullying because they understood how complex bullying is.”
A mother
They found out that he was good at drama. He was to pretend he was playing a part when he went into the classroom. It helped him through. They made him feel good about himself. He will never be a tough guy, but he is a star. “Act Against bullying is my favourite charity. They are one hundred per cent genuine.”
A teacher
We got lots of ideas from the charity to help us. We discussed how kindness and bullying were linked. It was a positive class session. The atmosphere was really good. The children loved it. If every day could be like that we would have no more bullying in school.
Peter
I hated going to school and found every excuse to avoid it. Eventually I dropped out. That’s my biggest regret. I couldn’t tell my mum and dad why I was so bad at school. They just thought it was me. But it wasn’t. One day I just said I couldn’t take it anymore and stopped going. But I didn’t have any qualifications. At first I didn’t care because I just wanted to get out of there.
I wish now that I had got help to deal with the problem. It was not my fault that I was picked on. Nor was I weak. But it took me several years to catch up with my school work. I felt angry for several years. But I’ve now got a degree and a happy relationship. When I came across Act Against Bullying I wanted to tell you my story to encourage others to ask for help and to tell them that everything can work out well.
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