"Every morning I wake up and ask why am I still here. I hate it (bullying). I wish I could be dead, the way some people talk to me and act towards me. Its continuous, it never stops. Every day I get up and go to school knowing what will happen and it hurts to think about it. I can tell my dad or mom what happens at school but every time I do they say you need to learn how to get a long with others. They don't know what it is like for me. I have not tried suicide but I think that if these kids do not stop I will. Instead of suicide I cut myself. ...I would like to be set on fire and burn, than have to go back to a place where kids pick on me. I get hit in the halls and everyone will turn and laugh. One time I had a crush on a popular kid and his girlfriend would write notes saying they were from him. They were cruel notes. It hurts to know no one likes me."

"I have always been bullied by my peers, both girls and boys through verbal abuse, physical abuse, mental abuse, in every way they could think of. I am now in the 10th grade and throughout the years of my life have changed schools four times, all for the same reason; I was being bullied. I never fit in with any group I was always and outsider looking in; No one wants to believe that they are the ones being laughed at. The popular girls used to make fun of me for my hair; they used to say that I was stupid, or laugh at me"

"When I was in elementary school, I was teased a lot.  Different people called me names like fatso, ugly, and would talk about me when they thought I wasn't listening.  I couldn't begin to tell you what they would do when the teachers were not around. One thing I will not forget is how they would push me and throw things at my head.  At night I would go into my room and shut the door.  I would stay up crying and wishing I were dead.   I have tried to kill myself many times.  Now I am in high school and nothing has changed.  I still want to die but I go to counseling to get help.  I wish something can be done to stop this."
~ Student at Pasco High School , Washington State