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A review by sfujii
Dear Bully: Seventy Authors Tell Their Stories by Megan Kelley Hall, Carrie Jones
4.0
This was really powerful and eye opening - both as a teacher and as a human being. Lessons: the bus sucks. The lunch room sucks. God - GIRLS suck. School sucks for too many kids because other kids are assholes.
There were countless entries about people's lame advice of "just ignore them" - doesn't work. "They're just jealous." - Maybe they're not. They're just assholes. "Suck it up." - Uh, no. The pervasive message of the text was this: It gets better. Don't give up. Don't give in. Stand up for yourself. Stand up for others.
I remember being bullied on the bus, grabbed in the chest, ditched, pranked, ignored, "SLAMmed"had my PE clothes stolen - and a few other things that were silly but still embarrassing for me. We are too mean to each other.
There were countless entries about people's lame advice of "just ignore them" - doesn't work. "They're just jealous." - Maybe they're not. They're just assholes. "Suck it up." - Uh, no. The pervasive message of the text was this: It gets better. Don't give up. Don't give in. Stand up for yourself. Stand up for others.
I remember being bullied on the bus, grabbed in the chest, ditched, pranked, ignored, "SLAMmed"had my PE clothes stolen - and a few other things that were silly but still embarrassing for me. We are too mean to each other.