Bessy Velonis

This documentary was moving. Bullying starts at home and children do what they see at home and discipline needs to happen at home. The schools and police need to take action when they are told about bullying. Other students need to stand up to bullying not be silent and get involved in stoping it. The schools are treating this as if this is something that is ok. Choking, punching, shoving.... is abuse. Anyone else outside of school would be arrested if any of these things happened. The bullies and their parents should be talked to when bullying is reported and be told this is their one warning since abuse is abuse is tolerated in schools. If it happens again the child should be expelled from the school. Once they are expelled from enough schools and no school will accept their child the parents either have to face the truth and discipline their children or these kids should be put in juvenile detention until they turn 18. Parents should be talking to their kids about bullying from a young age. They should be raising their kids to have empathy and compassion and to stand up and do the right thing if they see a child being bullied at school or on the bus. No ones child should feel they have nothing to live for and commit suicide because of bullying. I felt badly for these parents that lost their children and are fighting for other children’s safety. The girl that felt she needed to result to pulling out a gun out to protect herself and was in juvenile detention facing kidnapping multiple felonies felonies is wrong. She was punished and nothing was done to the bullies. I am glad she was let go. If the girl was not bullied she would not feel so hopeless to feel the need to do that. The law enforcement person that said it was not acceptable because she was not physically bullied is way off. People like him is why bullying continues. If it was a white child his dialogue would be different. Once a child suicide happens schools need to bring in bullying experts to talk to the kids and their parents about it at school. Make it mandatory. Have psychologists available for kids to talk to that need it. The sheriff that said there are resource officers in the schools is laughable. As the parent said the resource officer refused to press charges. Just having a resource officer(s) in schools who refuse to do their jobs is not enough. The principal in that school that made the boys shake hands and told the parents she will take care of it is a joke. The boy that was bullied that would not shake his bullies hand was right. For that child to be told he is the same as the bully is unconscionable. She is way off. Then when the parents went to the school about their child that was stabbed, punched in the head, pushed.... the same principal’s conversation with them was ridiculous. Who cares if you have a grandchild and you don’t want anything to happen to the kids? Do your job and take action and make sure the kids are safe at your school. The vice principal seemed to be taking action until she had the boy who was bullied in her office telling him he has to tell them and that the boy who sat on his head on the bus was disciplined and didn’t do it again. The bus drive who watched this child be bullied each day and did nothing or said nothing is complicit. Just like the mom said pull over and get the kids in order. The filming crew had to intervene and still nothing was done. The principal could have another adult on the bus every day not just the one day that they were golden. This woman is delusional.