Reflection

     In class on February 9, 2012, a social worker at Carbondale Community High School came in my English class and showed us a video called "Bullied." This video was about a gay boy named Jamie. Jamie was getting beat up and harassed because of this. He tried to kill himself by taking a whole bottle of pills. When he went to tell the principle, she told him she would handle the situation. She didn't handle it at all so; this abuse followed him to high school. But it got worse. It was so bad he ran away. But he only came back because his mom said he would be home schooled, but she couldn't afford it so he had to go back to Ashland High School. He told his mom that he would mom to the city of Minneapolis. Although she didn't want him to go, she wanted him to be safe. In Minneapolis he went to see a person that he could talk to about this situation. The person told him to sue to the school. Well, he did and he ended up getting $900,000 dollars. He had won the case. I think he did the right thing. This video made me tear up. I really don't like when someone is being hurt. I would have tried to help him. This story will always stay on my mind. This is an inspirational story.
http://www.tolerance.org/blog/bullying-civil-rights-issue

On the teaching tolerance website I found an article that talks about students that bully a person because of their race, national origin, sex, color, or disability, the staff are supposed to respond with the civil rights in mind. It also says, by law they are supposed to investigate and see to changing the hostile environment. The next paragraph talks about how half of the high school students who were surveyed on bulling had bullied someone in the past week. It ask questions such as "Does the school accept values and protect its student?" and "Does that message get transmitted from the top down, from the school board to administrators to teachers?" (http://www.tolerance.org/blog/bullying-civil-rights-issue) I feel that these questions are answer at my school. I feel like the teachers really care about the whole bullying activity. I feel that bullying should be looked into at every school. Do you think that bullying should be looked into? Why or Why not?

Tyler's Character

    
In the beginning of the book "Twisted", Tyler, main character, is in a state of mind where he thinks he's a loser. He feels that he is a nobody. He wants to kill himself. Tyler often thought of ways to kill himself. Tyler thinks he could just drown himself. He also thinks he could just hang himself. Tyler is a depressed person who loves to play video games. He can play video games for hours if people don't bother him. But his life all changed when he went to the dinner party with his father.

The day of the dinner party Bethany, the girl Tyler likes, gets pushed because of Chip, Bethany's brother and Tyler's enemy, and pushes Tyler into the waiter who has a tray full of glasses. The waiter drops the glasses and Bethany has no shoes on and she gets glass in her foot and goes to the hospital. Tyler regrets that he pushed her. He blames himself for everything. The next day his mom made him takes a cake over to the Milbury's House. When he takes the cake, her mom made him stay and talk to Bethany. He ended up really liking this so much that he did whatever she wanted him to do for her or with her. Then his life really changed when he went to the party that Bethany asked him to go to. After the party Tyler and Bethany grew apart. This is all because people were saying that he uploaded some pictures of Bethany to the Internet. Because of what was said Tyler had to stay in a "cell" room and do his work, people picked on him and beat him up. After Tyler was beaten up by Chip and his friends, he wanted to really comet suicide to himself. This made him really feel like a loser. What would you say to a person feeling like this?