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I'm thrilled that this teenagers have been charged!

It is high time that people (parents, administrators, teachers, other students) realize that bullying is a problem! I truly hope that the harshest form of punishment that they can get is handed down to them!

My high school was very big on protecting students from bullies and this was back when anti-bullying laws weren't in effect. I remember an instance when I was a sophomore (so like the 94-94 school year). I took the bus home and my bully and her 3 cronies got off the bus with me and started in on me (the reason, I supposedly was "bashing" the orchestra, to which the bully was a part of, lame I know). Thankfully a friend stayed with me while they harassed me and she eventually got them to leave. As soon as I got home I called my mom, who immediately called the principal. I was pulled into his office the next day (and my principal was like this 6'4" tall man who weighed over 200 pounds, big guy). He made me tell him who the girls were. I did and he suspended them all for like 2-3 days. He flat out told me that until the moment I walked through my front door after school that I was the schools responsibility.

I was thrilled that someone FINALLY had done something to my bully because I had been putting up with her since elementary school. God knows my parents tried their damndest to get her in trouble, but back in the era I grew up, I was the one blamed for the bullying. It was like "well your daughter acts this way" "your daughter dresses this way" "your daughter says this stuff", the blame NEVER went on the bully. Mainly because, as like today, the bullies tended to be the popular kids of the school, who teachers adored and they would target the kids that weren't popular and that the teachers really didn't like.