Replies to '08/24 Reunited'

It's never too late.  In San Francisco they have a Prom for adults every year, complete with a photographer.  You can go to nursing school or become a home healthcare nurse.  What you can't do is blame bullies for your percevied failures in life.   

   Many kids get bullied far worse than you did, and many of those same kids are leaders in communities from City Council to the White House.  What's the difference between them and you?  They cared enough about themselves to succeed in spite of their past.  

      I think many people just can't see that there's life after grade -high School.   

   My best life moments happened after high school, when I became a campus queen in college, and made the Deans list.  But mainly when I got my first job in my profession.  And soon it will be getting married and having children.  And this goes for some educators who only become teachers so that they can get back at the popular kids who supressed them.  Though those who bullied them are living fullfilled lives with little or no memory of them.  I ran into a few teachers in high school who were mean to me because my mother was the popular girl in school and they weren't.  I remember one saying something like, "Yeah I can believe Jada would do that because her mother once....."  I didn't even know the teacher knew my mother, but I remembered she was cruel to me in school.  I even believe she threw away my votes for Homecoming queen because I was voted most liked in school but was the only cheerleader who didn't make the court.  That teacher was the soul vote counter.  But when I say stuff like that, people think I was just a sore loser or that a teacher would NEVER bully or do anything like that to a child.  This is the same teacher who joined in with some other kids to giggle at the way I walk.  I turned around and caught her making fun of me with them.  When my parents confronted her about it, she was appauled that my parents would think she'd do something like that.  Afterall she was a teacher because she loved children she argued. 

    Sorry teachers are people too and we can't control or predict what they will or won't do, or what issues they may or may not have. 

  In closing I think you need to stop making excuses and pointing your finger, because when you do, you have three others pointing right back at yourself.  Buck up, grow up and stop making excuses.  You weren't the only 7th grader catching hell.  I had severe acne and kids called me pizza face all the time. 

Peace!  

  Hey Sherrytree, that's pretty horrible what happened to you in school, with getting beat up and all, and then the authority figures do nothing to enforce the rules.  Obviously they were too chicken to get involved.     

  To all the people who say to just get over it, they are only half right, especially if they were never victims of violence that went un-punished by authorities, in addition to being psycologically abused.   

  To Jada ok, I'm glad you got over your pizza face, and the teacher shouldn't have picked on you for your speech impediment.  It's cool that you could stand up for your self, but some people can't, I don't know why.  You probably learned how to stand up for yourself  from your mother, whether you are aware of it or not.     

  Yours and the comments of some other people's are incompassionate, and are far too simplistic and demeaning.   

  Back to Sherrytree-I think you will feel better once you go to nursing school, (there are special programs for people your demographic to get them to return to school) and you will also feel better maybe by taking some self defense or martial arts classes and work out some anger by kicking butt.     

When you return to nursing school you may also be pleasantly surprised by how you are treated at the college level.  I know that where I go, the adults normally make better grades than the rest of us, because they work harder at it because they are nervous about going back to school.    

I say go for it- It might actually turn out to be a kind of healing experience.   

  Hey Sherrytree, that's pretty horrible what happened to you in school, with getting beat up and all, and then the authority figures do nothing to enforce the rules.  Obviously they were too chicken to get involved.     

  To all the people who say to just get over it, they are only half right, especially if they were never victims of violence that went un-punished by authorities, in addition to being psycologically abused.   

  To Jada ok, I'm glad you got over your pizza face, and the teacher shouldn't have picked on you for your speech impediment.  It's cool that you could stand up for your self, but some people can't, I don't know why.  You probably learned how to stand up for yourself  from your mother, whether you are aware of it or not.     

  Yours and the comments of some other people's incompassionate, and are far too simplistic and demeaning.   

  Back to Sherrytree-I think you will feel better once you go to nursing school, (there are special programs for people your demographic to get them to return to school) and you will also feel better maybe taking some self defense or martial arts classes and work out some anger by kicking butt.     

When you return to nursing school you may also be pleasantly surprised by how you are treated at the college level.  I know that where I go, the adults normally make better grades than the rest of us, because they work harder at it because they are nervous about going back to school.    

I say go for it- It might actually turn out to be a kind of healing experience.