School is like a second home. Although it may not be favourited by anybody, spending twelve out of sixteen years there is a lot. To me, school has been a place where I've learned many things about myself. I have discovered my strengths, my weaknesses, but I have also found my likes and dislikes. Through school I've met many new people, who I now call my friends. Thinking about past years, I've realized that my school experiences have been awesome and I would not want to change a thing. But for Emily Goldin, her experience is the total opposite of mine.
Is it fair to physically, emotionally and mentally hurt an individual? Emily Goldin suffered a lot through her school years. She lost friends, and her dignity. She has recieved death threats, been called names and no body took any action to help her. The part that bothered me most was when she said, "The private school I attended refused to acknowledge that there was a problem. This is mainly because the offender's parents were huge dollar supporters of the school." Money does not help bring back kids that have commited suicide because they were a victim of bullying. I personally think that what that school did was unfair. Goldin was also called whore, slut, ugly and fat by a group of people. With no support from other people, she wasn't able to fight it off. It made things worse when she lost friends because they didn't know whether to believe her or not. She separated her school years into rounds. Round one: She lost most of her friends. Round two: She moved to another school, but that didn't help because some of the students transferred there as well making things even worse. Round three: Fast-tracking out of school. I think Emily thought she had no other option to fix this problem so she had to turn to leaving school as quick as possible. By the way Emily Goldin wrote this article, it is clear that she was suffocated in her own little world with nobody there to help her. She was isolated from everything and she had no other choice but to stick with it. But the last sentence captured me the most. "This leads me to pose a great question to all of my tormentors: Do you know who I really am?" Its inequality when someone judges another individual without knowing anything.
To sum up everthing, I am against bullying and how everybody treated her. Why should any individual have to go through this? Although I haven't been in Goldin's situation; it obviously isn't fun. You shouldn't need "scotch tape to hold together your heart."
