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    hntergrenBreanna Edwards
    11/30/17 2:20pm

    This is heartbreaking.

    Parents, to hell with the consequences, if your child is being bullied at school, accompany them to school one day, snatch the little bullying bastard up by the collar, slam them against a wall, and tell them if they ever touch your child again they will have you to deal with (just like my badass mother did).

    Do. Not. Put. Up. With. This. Shit.

    Protect your children.

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      sauvagehntergren
      11/30/17 2:41pm

      One of the many reasons why I did not want children was that I could not imagine what I would do to the bullies if my child ever suffered the sort of treatment that I experienced. Just thinking of me in that state of boundaryless rage legitimately scares me.

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      hntergrensauvage
      11/30/17 3:40pm

      My parents, my mother especially was fucking fierce when my sister and I were kids. Both my parents are well educated Caribbean Americans, but my mom grew up with eight older brothers, and a farmer father who was the type who once, after a neighbors wife sought refuge in my grandparents’ yard after an especially severe beating by her husband, marched down the road with his Winchester, shoved it in the man’s chest, and threatened to kill him if he ever laid a hand on her again. They did not play.

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    cakes_and-piesBreanna Edwards
    11/30/17 2:15pm

    I can’t imagine growing up in this day and age were you can’t escape, outgrow, or move on from any incidents. They are there forever. This poor baby was overwhelmed. :(

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      TheLostShameofCharlieSheen
      11/30/17 2:32pm

      Yes. I remember being miserable in grade school, but at least I got to go home and get some relief at the end of the day. Now everything is uploaded to apps, kids harass kids via text... It’s unrelenting.

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      Joyless HagTheLostShameofCharlieSheen
      11/30/17 4:24pm

      Thinking about suicide is my relief, to this day. I know it sounds silly, but it calms me down to know there is a way out, if things ever become unbearable. But, this girl was only 10. At that age, I absolutely knew you could kill yourself, but... that was something only adults do. This is beyond heartbreaking. :-(

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    sakisaki6Breanna Edwards
    11/30/17 2:17pm

    Just becuase it didn’t take place during school hours doesn’t make the school district less responsible for not teaching the other students to behave like decent humans.

    I bet the bullying was happening in school too.

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      adjectivebearsakisaki6
      11/30/17 2:32pm

      And unless school has changed vastly since I was a child, she likely reported being bullied and was told to “just ignore them” by all the adults who should have given a shit about her welfare.

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      Gaudy Mouse Muad'Dibsakisaki6
      11/30/17 3:04pm

      You know it probably did. Ugh. That poor girl.

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    missceeBreanna Edwards
    11/30/17 2:34pm

    I went through my little brothers phone and the amount of texts/videos/apps etc that these kids share DAILY is simply unreal. Poor child.

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      DuchessMeghanofSussex
      11/30/17 2:52pm

      People don’t seem to realize how prevalent social media is with kids. I am so, so glad I was born in the early 80s. Jesus christ. Poor child.

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      Emeraldkat
      12/01/17 4:55am

      I find it sick. I wouldn’t let my kid even touch a cell phone in elementary or middle school. That’s disgusting to me. What possible reason is there for any child that isn’t a teen who might go out with their friends quite often and need to check in, to have a cell phone????

      I think the problem is that the parents are also addicted to being in constant contact over the most mundane nonsense on a 24 hour basis that they seem to think they’re little 2nd grader or even their 8th grader needs such a device. But then I also see a prevalence of adults letting elementary school age kids just run around before and after school... never knowing where they are or what they do. Heck I just witnessed a 6 year old bringing home the class hampster last weekend, and take it out to show some older kids, then toss it as high as he could into the air and letting it slam into the pavement. Of course it died. They laughed. I screamed at them as I held the poor creature in my hands dying. When their mom came home at around 9pm, she wanted to fight me for yelling at her kid. I told her she needed to be a parent and that she is going to have a serial killer someday for the kind of things they were finding joy in...

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    Kullervo doesn't deserve thisBreanna Edwards
    11/30/17 8:10pm

    Mental health support will be made available for any students who need help processing the loss getting over the fact that they murdered their classmate.

    You know damn well the ones who bullied her to death will be the first to run crying to the therapist about how she was their best friend and now they can’t do their homework because they’re so sad.

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      Jenn3Kullervo doesn't deserve this
      12/02/17 2:57am

      Its not just about the kid that fought with her. It was a lot of things communally and the solution is constant education about conflict resolution, empathy, social media (kids don’t realize the consequences of this at - they are used to posting everything constantly) and bystanding.

      Because there is a next girl after this one. And these kids need appropriate tools for everyone else they ever interact with.

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    Ugh.Breanna Edwards
    11/30/17 3:48pm

    Jesus Christ...I used to get by with the mantra of “I have to live with these assholes for 6 hours a day, but I have to live with myself for the remaining 18.”

    The Internet kind of renders that mantra useless.

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      Poodletime II: the Return of PoodletimeUgh.
      12/01/17 12:19am

      I know. The tween years are heading towards us at a high rate of speed, and I’m still at a loss of how to handle this stuff.

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      fredwordsmithUgh.
      12/01/17 5:38pm

      That’s actually a beautiful sentiment. I have young kids and I’m already paranoid about how they’ll get through formative years in the age of social media. I will 100% use this axiom for them and pray they heed it.

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    swampRatBreanna Edwards
    11/30/17 2:16pm

    10 years old—WTF

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      RomeToSeaswampRat
      11/30/17 2:20pm

      My heart just hurts ;(

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    WeaselsareUsBreanna Edwards
    12/01/17 9:46am

    I’m glad they didn’t have cell phones when I was a child. I was bullied relentlessly because I was tall for my age. I was beat up several times until Junior High when I started to “fill in” and suddenly the crap stopped. I never forgot the lesson learned and I can only hope this child’s parents and family find some peace.

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      brosef_dudefellaWeaselsareUs
      12/02/17 2:42am

      Same. Had a terrible 7th grade due to switching schools. I wore glasses and lacked confidence, so the taunting could be relentless. It all magically stopped once I got contacts.

      It was a powerful lesson on how ruthless children can be.

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      the johnbrosef_dudefella
      12/02/17 9:31pm

      Small comfort I know, but now glasses are cool. I’m a teacher, and that’s one of the bigger surprises I’ve had the last few years.

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    Thotline Bling: black girl supremacyBreanna Edwards
    11/30/17 2:19pm

    Oh my God.

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    inhood212Breanna Edwards
    12/01/17 3:59pm

    Fuck.

    I think it’s time for a classic...

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