http://www.brocku.ca/brock-news/?p=18938 A news source for Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:37:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://www.brocku.ca/brock-news/?p=18938&cpage=1#comment-75660 S. D. Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:32:20 +0000 http://www.brocku.ca/brock-news/?p=18938#comment-75660 I was a kid who was bullied iin high school and it's not something that is simply over when you're done with school. It affects your confidence level, concentration, your emotions and a whole host of other issues that may follow you throughout your life. Being a teenager is a tansition period and bullying can change that transition from good to bad making it near impossible to get along. If I had had a gun in high school, I might have been the first canadian high school shooter. Since I did not, I simply ran away from school and home. Home never knew what was going on because it never occurred to me to tell. I survived but there was a cost that has affected me my entire life. process dertyLin Even teachers want to be liked by the "cool" kids but really, how cool is it to be an asshole to someone else???? I was a kid who was bullied iin high school and it’s not something that is simply over when you’re done with school. It affects your confidence level, concentration, your emotions and a whole host of other issues that may follow you throughout your life. Being a teenager is a tansition period and bullying can change that transition from good to bad making it near impossible to get along. If I had had a gun in high school, I might have been the first canadian high school shooter. Since I did not, I simply ran away from school and home. Home never knew what was going on because it never occurred to me to tell. I survived but there was a cost that has affected me my entire life. process dertyLin Even teachers want to be liked by the “cool” kids but really, how cool is it to be an asshole to someone else????

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