Nineteen Minutes
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Bullying
Vicki Farthing
Apr 05, 2015 08:01AM
I'm 28% of the way through this book and it's got me thinking. As some one who was badly bullied and then a parent of a child who was bullied what stopped me from doing something as drastic as Peter?
You hear too often of kids who've gone into schools and shot kids. At my daughters school (in the UK) they have a drill for fire arms in school. What would it take for you to go from bully to killer? What stopped you from taking that step?
You hear too often of kids who've gone into schools and shot kids. At my daughters school (in the UK) they have a drill for fire arms in school. What would it take for you to go from bully to killer? What stopped you from taking that step?
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Well, the book discusses it more as it goes on.
A lot of it also depends on your mental state pre-bullying, and how the type of bullying impacts your type of mental state. Also if something happens to you when you're in the wrong mood. Maybe one tiny event would have stopped Peter's killing spree.
A lot of it also depends on your mental state pre-bullying, and how the type of bullying impacts your type of mental state. Also if something happens to you when you're in the wrong mood. Maybe one tiny event would have stopped Peter's killing spree.
I agree. Someone reaching out to him rather than telling him to stand up to the bullies would of stopped it. I'd like to say the attitude Peter got from teachers was rare but I've heard so many similar stories, luckily they didn't end the same way.
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