School is now over and I only have one more year before I’m out…actually it may not even be a whole school year that I will have to attend next year anyway there is one thing that I would like to see happen before school is out next year and that is for a small group of 9th soon to be 10th grade students to be suspended and some of them expelled. Let me explain, it says very clearly in the rule book that every student gets at the beginning of the year that "Harrasment of any member of the student body at ____________ High School will not be tolerated… Repeated harrassment will result in suspension or expulsion from __________ High School and possibly the ___________ school district."
There is a ninth grade student I will call “G” who is harassed every day at school and nobody seems to care and there are 4 kids who are the ones that are the worst offenders and they have never been in any serious trouble behind the harrassment even though I know that the teachers know about it, I seem to remember one of the bullies getting a note to take home to their parents. The odds that the note ever reached his parents are low and the odds are even lower that if his parents did see it that they cared because the harrassment never stopped. Just the fact that a 9th grader was given a note to take home basically on an honor system shows that the teacher did not care very much.
G used to get teased because he did not dress like anybody else on campus and so when he did go out and buy some more fashionable clothes they teased him because they said he was trying to “act cool”.
I have seen even 11th and 12th graders immature enough that rather than stick up for G like I do, they join in helping these punks harass him.
I have witnessed a student (one of the 4 mentioned above) do things like walk about 50 feet over to G and knock over his drink during break and it is totally pointless, not even funny “Oh yeh I knocked over G’s drink and it spilled” How immature is that? The worst thing is that mean words fly in his face constantly from the moment he walks on campus unless he is with me and my friends but he cannot be with us all day and after our time is up at school and we are at college doing our thing what then?
I actually got into more trouble than any of these stupid punks ever did because I almost got kicked out of the district, **not the school the district ** because I said something like this; *“If G ever shot up the school I’ll know why he snapped because nobody leaves him alone.” * well that got turned around into that I was going to shoot up the school with G and we had been planning it together which was so far from the truth luckily I have friends that helped to set things straight…anyway the school I attend is for the much less than perfect kids in the district as far as behavior and grades and I do not think G fits in at all, I can’t see why he is at a continuation school. I would like to see either G getting transfered to a regular school or even better the 4 punks that are the source of the problem get into some serious trouble for once.
Any suggestions for things I can do to speed this process along?