School Bullies

13 School Bullies In the end, things turned out okay. But I almost killed someone, and I still feel so guilty about what I did. I will carry this guilt with me for the rest of my life. I want to apologize for what I did, but the person I hurt is no longer at our school. I have no way of contacting her, and that makes me feel very bad. The girl-I will call her Sally -was the smartest girl in our class. She was not pretty and she was very shy. But she could answer any question the teacher asked. She always got top marks on exams. One day, as she was walking past my friends and me in the hallway, I said, " Hey. There goes 'smelly pants'! You smell bad. " We all laughed. We thought it was funny. Sally said something defiant back to us, but I could see that my name-calling had really hit home. It hurt her, and I liked hurting her. " She thinks she's so smart, " I was thinking to myself.

After that, whenever we saw her, we called her names, different names, but names that were not nice. After a while, she gave up trying to say anything back to us. She stopped answering questions in class. The teachers would call on her, but she just looked at the floor and refused to answer. Then, one morning, the teacher announced that Sally would not be coming back to our school. She had found some pills and overdosed. Luckily, her mother found her and rushed her to the hospital. They pumped her stomach, and she got better. According to our teacher, Sally told the doctors that she had tried to kill herself because of the name-calling at school. She thought the only way to end her troubles was to end her life. I feel horrible. I am mecting with a school counsellor twice a week and trying to discover why I did such a terrible thing to a girl like Sally. She changed schools, so I can't tell her how bad I feel. But I am going to speak out about bullying and how dangerous it is. Maybe I can save another person from going through what I put Sally through.