
So I have once again grown tired of the ugliness directed at me for sharing important things that I have learned when I learn them.
I may be many things, but a liar has never been among those things.
Things that I do know is we live in a world where people want pink fuzzy bunnies and unicorns farting rainbows while (for example) kids are suffering.
And then there are people who don’t want to feel uncomfortable when I question the motives of people I feel are not up to anything good. Or if I mock ridiculous politicians. Or whatever the topic may be.
And we’re going to talk about bullying in the schools because it’s not just one school district. It’s across the board. Bullying is a pervasive issue in our society, especially with kids. And every time bullying is discussed, adults can’t handle it. It’s like if they pretend bullying doesn’t exist, if they say it doesn’t exist, it’s just a fantasy , but how’s that pretzel logic working out for these people?
I myself was bullied in elementary school. And the girl who did it actually broke the corner of my front tooth. The corner of that tooth is still broken and I’m 60 years old. it’s been filed down, so it’s not noticeable to most people, but I always know it’s there and how and why it happened. It happened because I said no to a bully and they retaliated. But I’m glad I said no to that bully. No regrets.
After that day in elementary school, I did learn to stand on my own two feet. It wasn’t the only example of bullying I would experience before I reached high school. I also experienced it in the middle school or as we called it, junior high school.
At that point I was a new kid. And because I was the new kid and I hadn’t gone to elementary school with all these people I was immediately bad. Some of those girls were truly miserable.
It was quite the learning curve. I had never been in a public school since kindergarten. These miserable little bitches were 100% part of the reason my parents sent me to Shipley and took me out of the esteemed Lower Merion School District. The esteemed Lower Merion School District couldn’t admit that there were bullying issues. Except I witnessed it and experienced it. And so did friends that I still have to this day.
I did end up getting the last laugh later in high school, however. You see, one of the boys the mean girls worshipped was a neighbor. We were actually friends which sort of made them crazy because it put me finally in a hand’s off zone. It killed them to be nice to me and I admit I enjoyed that. It was briefly my own John Hughes movie life moment, although my experiences predated his movies, which is probably why so many of us identified with them and many became cult classics.
I saw kids bullied even sadly at Shipley back then. And kids had to learn how to take care of themselves because no one else was going to do it for us. I had learned to handle myself at that point so well I personally wasn’t bullied at Shipley, there were those who did try to make my life uncomfortable for just being myself. At that point, I had honestly learned that I didn’t care that their issues were their issues, not mine. It’s why I avoided particular cliques and sort of floated in between groups within my class. Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee and all that.
So guess what? I do know what it’s like from personal experience after being bullied in these preteen and early teen years. And again online as an adult for being a blogger. And I am still standing.
I will stand up for what’s right when it comes to these issues with bullying as well as my right to write in general. And I have decided for the time being to remove the post I wrote about what happened in a certain school district recently. Young teen/pre-teen kids don’t just wake up and kill themselves. But I am being bullied online by purported adults for talking about it and I have had quite enough of their bullshit for one day. One of my favorite aspects of the bullshit are the adults who want to know why the obituary doesn’t mention bullying or suicide? Do they hear their ridiculous stupidity?
This particular school district has been talked about with bullying and other issues for years. Posts show up on social media and disappear. Hell, I knew a kid once who was pulled out of that school for home schooling / cyber schooling because of the bullying.
This district is also hardly the only school district to be spoken about regarding bullying. In fact, almost every school district and a host of private schools have dealt with bullying in this region. Or should I quantify that and say the kids have experienced bullying but the schools and school districts have not dealt with the bullying?
Anti-bullying campaigns exist, but school districts mostly pay them lip service. And then, of course, there is the other issue of when you look into the bullying and bullies, you see what’s lacking in their home lives . Bullies are often subjected to bullying/abuse things in their own homes, and nobody wants that coming to light do they?
And I think that’s at the core of bullying issues isn’t it? The kids want our help, they want our protection, but that would mean the adults would have to look at some uncomfortable hard truths.
And then, when a lot of these parents talk about bullying in schools, they turn around and bully fellow adults online over stupidity. Or over more modern topics that make them uncomfortable, although it has no personal bearing on their lives. Yes, I’m talking about things like gender identity, sexuality choices, politics, and books that freak them out.
I’m tired of these limited people who think their voice is more important than anyone else’s. I’m also tired of these limited people attacking me because I couldn’t possibly say any of this out loud.
I speak my truth and will continue to.
If you don’t like my opinions, I can’t help you. That’s your issue, not mine. No one is forcing you to read this blog.
But don’t tell me among other things that bullying is not real. It is.















































































