#nobullyinghere

Before I head out to work, I wanted to write a post about how feel about bullying.

I am absolutely against it, period. Oh..well duh of course you should be. Ha,  a lot of people don’t think like that, sadly. In this day in age you’d think a lot of things like like racism, bullying...would be well extinct, but guess what? It’s still alive and thriving. Smh. I just saw a video that was floating around on Facebook about a little 9 year old girl named Nasir, a young Black girl who attends a predominantly white school. This girl said that she’s been called names like “Nutella” and “Servant” and even has had food thrown at her by an office worker, an OFFICE WORKER!! An adult who works at the school people!!! WOW!

 School is suppose to be a fun, loving and safe environment for all children. Instead this is a place of horror, fear and pain for this young girl. This is sad, it shouldn’t be this way. For a worker at the school to even treat this young lady like this is extremely disgusting and insulting for me as an inspiring educator. Bullying starts at home, period. Doesn’t matter if one picked it up from someone else’s behavior, that behavior’s root is still from home. Then even if someone picked it up from someone else there’s still an root issue there: parents aren’t teaching their children from right and wrong behavior! So no there’s no excuses and there’s no way around bullying.

 My siblings and I were never bullies, instead we were the ones that always got picked on. Rather it was for our skin complexion, our weight, our intelligence or the way spoke and dressed. Sad isn’t it? I have a daughter and she’s being raised right now to not bully others and to not hit them. It’s NOT right!!! We have to raise our children to know that it’s okay to be different than their peers and it’s okay for them to be different from us. Period. Love and hate are both taught at home. Why aren’t we teaching our children to love and accept one another?