11-year-old bullied for his MLP bookbag attempts suicide

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Kids are innocent, huh?

I dealt with bullying every year I was in school. If I was this kid's sibling, I would've taught him how to fight just so he could punch out these brats. Hell, I still wish I could punt the brats who bullied me out a window sometimes (elementary school was the worst).

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"Be yourself, no matter what. Some will adore you, and some will hate everything about you, but who cares?

It's your life. Make the most out of it."

I think this should be shown to all kids who are being bullied :yeah

ALL HAIL FOAMY!!

BULLIES!!

What's really sad is, the kids who bullied him are probably high-fiving each other -- those vicious little shits undoubtedly KNOW by now that he tried to kill himself. They all need to get a foot in their ass from some bronies who are MUCH bigger than them.

There was a similar story later on, oddly enough in the same state.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/03/18/my-little-pony-backpack-banned-school-north-carolina/6565425/

In that instance it was a 9 year old boy and he at least didn't attempt suicide, but the school decided the best way to deal with it was to BAN the backpack because it 'triggered bullying'. They backpedaled after the Mom pulled her kid out of school and made the story go viral, but it should never have happened at all.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/03/21/my-little-pony-backpack-banned-school-north-carolina/6685403/

Seriously, it's 2014, can we stop being assholes to each other already? Triggers bullying, my ass. Apparently both of these boys were 'asking for it.' I really hope that Michael pulls through and gets the help he needs

We should indeed be able to stop being assholes to each other, but I'm afraid that's not going to happen anytime soon. All you need to do is check out any adverts, especially for children's stuff. The gender norms are firmly in place even for toddlers. Boys must wear baggy shirts and longer shorts, girls must wear more form-fitting stuff ( and please be ultra-girly while you're at it). I got bullied in high school because I didn't look the way the "popular" girls looked, and I was smart on top of that. This crap still goes on, and adults usually look the other way. They must think it makes kids tougher to suffer bullying, but I can assure you it doesn't. That poor boy...:mad2

I used to be bullied. It was awful, but my school sorted it out real well I must admit. Take the little bullying shits by their neck and shook them, they will learn.

Poor kid

FUCK.

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doctors believes he could now be suffering from locked-in-syndrome

This is... damn. I can't even. This was probably a future member of society and now.. Locked-in-syndrome. This is...
Can we kill the little bullying shits? It is their fault.

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I was bullied throughout school for many reasons. For one thing, I wasn't good at sports and even when I tried, I still couldn't cut it. The only sport I was even remotely good at was soccer since it just involved kicking the ball.

During middle school, a group of kids started bullying me because my voice was too deep. They constantly made grunting noises at me, made fun of me when I talked in class, made harassing phone calls to my house, I just couldn't deal with it. I did fight one of them, but got in trouble at school, at home, and of it didn't stop. They got sent to the school counsellor and nothing happened, other than them just getting madder at me. They liked to all gang up on me I didn't want to get pounded by a bunch of people.

Another kid started bullying me because he thought I looked like a character on a TV show and he constantly taunted me with that, and others joined in. He had a whole bunch of people ganging up on me with this and I couldn't take it. The one thing both sets of bullied had in common is they were the athletes, aka the school gods, so of course nothing could be done to them and everyone listened to them. I had people I didn't even know bullying me.

As for this case, the kid was told to leave the bookbag at home to resolve the problem. I doubt that would have stopped it because these kids would taunt him about it even if he didn't have it. It just takes one time. Applying that logic, they'd have probably told me to stop talking at school, get plastic surgery to alter my face so I don't look like the TV show character, and enroll in some sort of football, basketball, baseball bootcamp so I can get better at sports and if I can't, too bad. Schools are becoming more conformist all the time.

I'm glad I finished high school over 20 years ago. It was bad then, and I don't want to think about how bad it is now.

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II'm glad I finished high school over 20 years ago. It was bad then, and I don't want to think about how bad it is now.

It was pretty bad back then too. I don't think any boy would have even attempted to bring in a bag like that. I think his parents should have known that still holds and told the kid to keep the MLP stuff at home. Kids are not going to change. If they are told they cannot bully protected classes like minorities or disabled, then they will find something else, anything. If this kid already had any problems with not fitting in, this bag thing could only make it worse.

I just kept my head down, no statements in school. Right or wrong, I would tell any kid the same. Just do your best to survive.

What, those brats have never heard of Bronies? MLP is pretty popular even with adult men!

School is a soul-sucking experience. I'd have mini panic and IBS attacks at night several times a week just thinking about going to school the next day. It would make me cold and clammy all over. People suck and no, kids are not innocent. Far from it. You'll find some of the most vicious behavior comes from adolescents.

Bullies never change, but sometimes they meet their match.

Asshole beats up old man in road rage incident, old man's son strangles the fucker to death.

Long story short, fender bender where bully hits old man then drives off. Old man follows and both pull over for info exchange. Bully threatens old man with death, then beats him severely when he tries to get his paper with info back. Son of old man gets out of car and, in spite of being outweighed by 100 pounds, jumps on his back and puts him in a chokehold. Bully collapses and dies.

This is what should be mandatory viewing.

Even more to the story, he was a duh who had done this before....

HOUSTON -- A man was killed during a road rage attack that started with a hit-and-run Tuesday on Highway 288, police said.

Investigators said Derek Vincent Brown was driving his Nissan truck when it side-swiped a black Ford 150 on Highway 288 near Southmore. According to investigators, Brown kept on going and the driver of the other pickup followed him.

Eventually both vehicles stopped in a parking lot next to the Hermann Park Golf course. Police said an exchange of information turned deadly when Brown and the two men in the other truck got into an argument.

Brown allegedly pushed one of them to the ground and started attacking that man's 67-year-old father.

“The son then gets up, tries to defend his father by pulling the driver of the Nissan off his father,” said Jesus Sosa, with HPD Homicide. “He then puts him in a choke hold and starts yelling call 911, call 911. Then he goes to the ground.”

Brown died and the father is in the hospital in serious condition.

Brown's neighbors in Porter said they are devastated and shocked.

“He didn't seem like that type of person to me,” said Ruth Schmidt. “If I needed any help, he was always here to help.”

Brown, who leaves behind a wife and two children, spent four days in jail and paid a fine in 2009 after being charged with failing to stop and give information after an accident, according to records.

Police are looking witnesses who stopped to help Brown and the injured father after the incident.

The case is going to a grand jury, which will decide if there will be any charges.

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What, those brats have never heard of Bronies? MLP is pretty popular even with adult men!

School is a soul-sucking experience. I'd have mini panic and IBS attacks at night several times a week just thinking about going to school the next day. It would make me cold and clammy all over. People suck and no, kids are not innocent. Far from it. You'll find some of the most vicious behavior comes from adolescents.

I used to have nightmares about going to school, anxiety, you name it. Many think privatizing schools is the answer but have news for them, I went to mostly private schools, public school for one year, and have my share of horror stories from both.

Regardless of how one feels about homeschoolers, I disagree with those who say homeschooled kids aren't getting properly socialized. I found school to be the worst place to gain social skills, and stories like this one are just more proof of that.

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What's really sad is, the kids who bullied him are probably high-fiving each other -- those vicious little shits undoubtedly KNOW by now that he tried to kill himself. They all need to get a foot in their ass from some bronies who are MUCH bigger than them.

I believe bullies should be publicly spit on and harassed by the entire community with their parents watching.

The parents of bullies should have to pay out HUGE sums to the families of children their vile spawn have harmed too. Make these parents have a bit of skin in the game. They need to have something on the line that will hurt them in a big way when their misbegotten cretins run riot in other people's lives.

Ugh. I hate seeing these stories. Kids really are vile to each other. Innocent my arse, that's why the little fuckers need to be socialised and taught what's what.

The teachers reaction saying just don't bring the bag in, that's just like the ones who told me I was bringing the bullying on myself for "being different" and "refusing to fit in". Fuck that. I know teachers have a hard job but some of them don't have a clue. And some of them think that bullying is "character building". At my secondary school, it was a way of forcing conformity. They couldn't deal with anyone who didn't fit the mould.

What a waste of a young life. Very sad.

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doctors believes he could now be suffering from locked-in-syndrome

This is... damn. I can't even. This was probably a future member of society and now.. Locked-in-syndrome. This is...
Can we kill the little bullying shits? It is their fault.

Oh god. To me, this is one of those "fates worse than death" things. I don't even want to imagine. That poor, poor kid.

I was pretty severely bullied growing up, but the day I fought back is the day it stopped - until I transferred to a new school. Then it started all over again. I fought back again, and it stopped until I transferred again. I didn't believe in violence so it took a long time and a lot of suffering before I was pushed to a breaking point. I was lucky in that the administrators pretty much deliberately turned a blind eye when I fought back. I know things would probably go very differently now. The first time, again with a guy, I went for the nuts and then his mouth - and hit both square on. I was a green belt in karate the second time it happened - the guy I fought was clueless and all limbs and I used that to my advantage and kicked his ass. People learned that I was all bite and very little bark and stayed away accordingly. The only time I got the admin involved was when a group of about 10 girls threatened to give me a group beat down. I cut school that day, and when the counselor asked why I answered. They were placed on suspension and got kicked off the cheer team and out of band/choir/drama/whatever.

Even then, all the bullying took a toll. I was suicidal all though high school and most of my twenties. I even attempted it a few times - my dog saved me from attempting it more than I did.

And YES to making pahrunts responsible for what their little spayshul sneauxphlake dahhhlings do. There are fines associated with EVERYTHING - make the pahrunts pay whatever the criminal fine is for harrassment - to/for every single kyd the bully has gone after - and I bet it would stop real quick.

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The only time I got the admin involved was when a group of about 10 girls threatened to give me a group beat down. I cut school that day, and when the counselor asked why I answered. They were placed on suspension and got kicked off the cheer team and out of band/choir/drama/whatever.
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Ten on one, that is terrifying. You did good in all your fighting back. No one should have to live through that shit, it's a chronic state of fear and anxiety and awful for a kid or anyone to have to experience.

These schools are ridiculous. I understand why some breeders homeschool. People look down on homeschooling here but I do understand it.

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These schools are ridiculous. I understand why some breeders homeschool. People look down on homeschooling here but I do understand it.

My sympathy for homeschooling went up a hundredfold after reading this article in the news elsewhere. I could not ask for a more clear demonstration of why forcibly herding hundreds of snotminers to a glorified holding pen where their unrelated minders can barely even give their charges a failing grade for deliberate stupidity (for fear of losing their jobs) is a bad idea.

The agony that boy has had to go through for something as purely innocent as wearing a backpack with cartoon horses on it is alternately rage-inducing and sickening. He's not puppeting political or economic talking points that he won't understand for another 15 years or deliberately wearing a symbol/phrase that incites half the ill-bred populace to their usual violent antics...he wanted that backpack because he thought it looked nice. And that was considered such a CRIME by the "Lord of the Flies" walking condom commercial FERAL GODDAMN BRATS that he may well be traumatized for life. So help me GOD I could almost cry because but for slightly different circumstances that boy could have been me, and I daresay almost everyone here harbors memories of times when we were set upon for something equally petty with equal deliberate malice.

Pink = girl and blue = boy is as artificial as Diet freaking Coke; barely one step above popular clothing fashions. The ponies depicted will be near-forgotten antiques in 30 years at most. The intrinsic 'devaluation' of the manhood or coolness or what the !@#$% ever in wearing a backpack is cultural fiat money at it's finest - value held up by nothing more than fairy-floss thinking and oafish tradition. Nevermind that a child not old enough to shave has to worry about this with such seriousness is already an indication that his peers' opinion and approval isn't worth jack-f*ck-all.

And the fact that the school resorted to 'punish the victim' and bowed to the capricious cruelty of a pint-sized mob over something so inoffensive is a damning accusation that the rotten runtlings are basically in charge...which could be another thread altogether.

The worst part is now he has some brain damage from the hanging and what will become of him in the future? Will he be still able to work or will the taxpayers have to pay for his care? Actually, I think the parents of the bullies should be sued to pay for this.

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The worst part is now he has some brain damage from the hanging and what will become of him in the future? Will he be still able to work or will the taxpayers have to pay for his care? Actually, I think the parents of the bullies should be sued to pay for this.

If the parents of bullies had to pick up the tab for therapy/counselling and care for victims, you betcha life there would be fewer bullies around. Hitting them in the wallet is often the only thing these permissive moos and duhs understand.

This is another reason why I don't want to have kids because of this.

I too was bullied back in junior high for not doing things like any other teenage girls would do(i.e. makeup, boys, teen gossip, etc.) and prefer to read comic books or playing video games or watch anime. It also didn't help that I have a high functioning autism and that I'm a history nerd which adds more bullying. The teacher would give me a hard time about it and made fun of me of my autism, causing the classmates and bullies to laugh at me. It was embarrassing and upsetting for me.

The girls are the worst. One of them, the ringleader, would be pretend to be nice and sweet to me in my face but once my back was turned, they talk shit about me behind my back. Two of them pretended to be my friend and later on, did the same thing like the ringleader did. What's even worse that I can't even report the bullying even if I want to. Why? It's because the ringleader is the daughter of the principal and every time if someone reports her that her daughter is the bully, she would suspend them. After all, her daughter can do no wrong. So she gets away with it.

My mother would try to get me into teenage crap so I can 'fit' in better but I didn't bother because I knew very well it will not work. For one, they would see me 'trying too hard to fit in' and make fun of me for it. Two, I tried to get into the teenage things that they're into but I didn't like it. Three, why should I change my interests just to make others happy but not me? Why would they suddenly like me for 'loving' the same things they're into but can't respect mine in return? So I refused to change myself and I'm glad I stuck to it.

And speaking of bullies, here's a gem that thinks that kids should stick to gender toys so they won't get 'bullied'. Sounds like a Breeder Moo in Training that likes to blame everything else for bullying instead of shitty parenting. It's people like her that reinforces those stereotypes and bullying.

I don't know how far the ever fashionable bronydom extends, but it may just be as simple as: boy-beasts see other boy-beast with bookbag emblazoned with rainbows and pink ponies. Teasing ensues because it looks girly - right or wrong, it's been happening for ages. I agree with the teacher for suggesting the kid leave it at home if he didn't want to be teased. I don't know about anyone else, but when I was in school, if you were going to go in being different, you had to have the skin thick enough to stand your ground and be proud of it. How does an 11 year old go home and attempt suicide after being made fun of for carrying a girly bag around?? I don't agree with bullying, but in my opinion, the kid asked for it by bringing the bag in. All this parental outrage is for the touchy-feelys who don't want their kid to develop a pair and learn to hold his own if he CHOOSES TO BE DIFFERENT. It'd be another thing if the kid were being bullied for something he couldn't help. This was his choice, and in my opinion, he's got to deal with the consequences.

An eleven year old attempting suicide. Really??
It sounds to me like something else must be going on at home to let teasing over a bookbag bring him to that.
Sorry, I don't feel sorry for the kid in the least. He took the risk that his classmates might not be as enlightened as your average brony, and ended up teased. I was severely bullied in school myself, but I kept on going, got past it, and managed to grow up and learn to live in a world full of assholes anyway. Someone should inspire this kid to do the same. Dog only knows how he'll react the next time he's criticized for something.

With all due respect cats_instead, I just cannot agree with that. If it was not the bag, it would be something else. I was teased for my hairstyle. I changed it, then the bullies went on to my weight or the way I walked. It is always something! When you are on the radar of the bullies, you are screwed. The only solution is for the bullies to get the shit punished out of them and even expelled and moved to an alternative school if necessary.

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~Sigmund Freud

I agree with peace-n-quiet. When I was bullied, it didn't matter what I did. The bullies always found something to pick on. My hair, my clothes, my likes, my dislikes, even my name at one point. Bullies will find something to pick on and they will abuse the hell out of it.

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It's your life. Make the most out of it."

I also agree with the last two posts.

Most people get too focused on what the bullies are targeting specifically this time.
The target is almost always irrelevant.

The issue is that certain people are being allowed to be horrid to another person and are being allowed to have power and control over others.

The item/person/ subject/issue can be sparkly, dull, purple, pink, or blue, popular, out-of-date, unusual, typical, slightly wider, narrower, taller or smaller and the bully will pounce.

Change that target and the bully will continue on another excuse, until repeatedly stopped by punishment.

I watched the documentary Bully a few weeks ago and the real solution is to stop calling it "bullying." It's a sugar-coated general term for sexual/verbal harassment, assault, battery, and a hostile environment. This one kid was literally being stabbed with pencils, choked, punched, and receiving death and rape threats. Arrest the kids doing this shit, charge and convict them, and do not seal their juvenile records when they reach the age of majority. Just like they would if they were doing this as adults.

Another girl got so tired of the bullying she dealt with on the bus, that she took her mother's gun just to put some fear into her tormentors. She then gets arrested and charged with 90+ felonies just because she took an extreme way of fighting back (and you know that the people who have responsibility like the bus driver and school officials didn't do jack shit when she told them what was going on). Luckily, all charges were dropped.

What drives me nuts is that the parents of the bullies, if their little rotten assholes they call their children actually meet some consequences, will moo and low about their child's "right to education," completely ignoring the fact that the victims also have that right as well as the right to a non-hostile environment. And it's not like it only happens at school. Thanks to technology and kids allowing to have social media accounts, these kids get it at home as well. Quite frankly, if a household has children under 18, their Internet should automatically have a net nanny on there that bans social media. No kids or breeders need to be on Facebook (and the Megan Meier case also proves that breeders can't be trusted with the Internet).

It's already been proven time and again that the victims of bullying deal with mental and emotional issues for decades while the bullies develop some sort of amnesia that allows them to forget what they did. It's time for some actual fucking consequences. Maybe when the breeders of bullies have to shell out money for lawyers and get to be the breeders of convicted criminals and when the bullies themselves now have a record of violent behavior and felony convictions follow them around for the rest of their lives, we'll see some actual change.


Oh, and quit hiring passive assholes in school faculty and administration. The assistant principal in the documentary was full of victim-blaming, non-action, excuses, and double-speak that would make George Orwell proud.

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