Danbury kids walk all over bullying - Take On Life - Connecticut News
“To me, I think the hardest part is just having to deal with it all the time,” Leandra said the other day. “You try not to think about it, but after a while, you can’t help it. It’s always there.
“Somebody is always saying something or texting something, and they don’t care if it hurts you. In fact, that’s what they want. They want to hurt you.”
“Every day in my high school, I hear kids use (a homosexual slur) to bully gay kids,” said Courtney Jackson, 15, a sophomore at Danbury High. “Other kids get bullied because of the way they look. It’s really, really hurtful.”
Bullying isn’t limited to Greater Danbury, of course. No school is immune from the barbs that fly out of ill-informed minds.
“These aren’t just a few random cases at Danbury High,” Leandra said. “Bullying is everywhere.”
Indeed.
According to the National Crime Prevention Council, every day 160,000 kids miss school because they’re afraid of bullying. Overall, more than half of all kids — 52 percent — report seeing bullying at least once a week.
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