Bullied: One kids struggle, helps millions just like him

After watching the DVD Bullied, as a teacher, my eyes were opened. To a world where kids are that cruel. And that we can't look the other way. Too many kids are dealing with being bullied and are scared to come forward, for fear that it will only get worse once they open up about it. Too many lives have been lost due to being bullied. If it wasn't for Jamie coming forward and putting his story at the front of national headlines, how many more students lives would have been lost? Its a subject that every school district needs to take seriously. It isn't going to go away and every school big or small has some degree of it. It needs to be addressed and not pushed under the rug like it did in Ashland. Have a class or a day that deals with bullying and the affects it has on children. It may be small but it is a step. Making it the schools mission to carry out that every child feels safe coming and leaving school. At a young age children need to be taught that bullying is never the answer, to keep promoting this idea of tolerance of every race, religion, sexual orientation, gender. If schools don't jump on board and realize that this is a problem and a real situation how many kids lives will end too soon because of bullying?