Anti-Bullying
Today at school all 8th graders were to report to the gym for a special presentation. A guest speaker from DYA came to school and talked about cyber-bullying. She showed us with a slideshow and some video clips. She discussed about how anyone in any age can get bullied on the Internet. Websites such as Myspace and other interacting websites. She told us about a victim who was struck by cyber-bullying. Her name was Megan Meyer.
Her story started when she and her best friends fought and befriended each other. While she was on her Myspace she met a 16-year old boy name Josh. They started being close just by sending emails to each other and chatting. Megan thought he was attractive and was her boyfriend. One day when she got a message from Josh saying that he doe not want to be friends anymore and how mean and a bad person she is. Josh posted their private messages on his blog exposeing it to everyone on Myspace. Megan couldn’t take that much rejection an suicided by hanging herself in her room. When her father found out he read the messages and found out this “Josh” was not real at all. It was Megan’s neighbor’s mom. Her story was very convincing and proof how we can be more than bullied on the Internet–we can also get hurt.
After that presentation on cyber-bullying, there were other guest speakers; three police officers. Each one told us about bullying and even when they got bullied as well as they bullied others. They told were we will go if we continue bullying others as we get older, jail. Then there was another presentation by our school’s Peer Mediators. They made us review about bullying and what we can do about it too, by a short skit that they have been working on for weeks. It was a cool presentation so far. After being in the hot Gym for almost three hours, there was one more presentation and the last one (YES, FINALLY!!) by Mr. McDow using a slide presentation. It was interesting for a while until the other 8th graders in the Gym kind of stop listening to him. Oh well…
I will say that there is no need for any improvemnets for the next time they will hold another assembly like this. It is already perfect the way it is.
Filed by ღ ڗєחח ღ at January 21st, 2009 under Uncategorized
