Bullying

 I am throwing this log on the fire for the sake of awareness. This story is about a beautiful young lady from New Jersey . She was beaten in the hallway of her school and video's were made of her beating and posted on social media. The attackers that beat her taunted her with these video's leading her to take her own life. 

Below is the link to the video of the beating, and humiliation that this poor girl suffered at the hands of her classmates.  

https://nypost.com/2023/02/09/new-jersey-girl-14-takes-her-own-life-after-latest-attack/

I thought that we were past this. Years ago there was a wave of these incidents happening in schools across America and people lashed out against this. School officials set up programs and protocol's in schools to prevent this from happening . So what happen here? 

According to the The New York Post and ABC Nightly News, after the beating,
Adriana Kuch, was taken to the nurses office not the hospital. The school didn't even call the police. To my understanding very little action was taken by the school until after Adriana suffered harassment, and humiliation from her classmates leading her to take her own life. 

In the aftermath of her death 2 female students have been suspended from school and now are faced with criminal charges. 

Here is just one of the comments from a viewer to the above video : 

 "Where are the parents of the attackers??? They should be cooperating fully with the school and local authorities and at the very least apologizing in person to this father for what their child did. There should also be a law that people that torment someone so horribly, that they are driven to suicide, MUST be made to attend the funeral. Witness what your actions led to and beg the family for forgiveness."

I could not agree more. This is a tragedy. The school should have sent this girl to the hospital. The police should have been called immediately, and the attackers should have been pulled from class and suspended immediately following this incident not after their actions resulted in death. 

If you are a parent to a teenager then you know what a distraction a cellphone can be for your teenager. Can someone please tell me why cellphones are even allowed in our schools? I don't want to hear how kids need their phones in case of an emergency: That is an excuse . When I was in highschool cellphones didn't even exist. If there was an emergency I was called to the office and given a message. Having a cellphone for a teenager is a privilege not a requirement. Our children are spoiled enough they do not need these devices while in school being educated. 

The one thing that really impressed me about this story was the fact that the other students in the school recognized that what had happened to this poor girl was not right and they took a stand by walking out of school and protesting. 

The most valuable asset in America today is our children. They are the future of what America is going to be when us old folks are dead and gone. Don't you think that it's time we start thinking about that and do everything in our power to protect them ? It starts in the home with how we raise them, what we expose them to , and the moral values that we bestow in them . But once they reach school age we have to trust the education system to be a positive influence and carry on with the molding of our children's futures. Do you trust the educators in your child's school to do this? It is their responsibility to protect our kids while in their care. 

This school failed this girl, they did not protect her. The didn't even take action until after Adriana had taken her own life. This could have been prevented if the school had called the police, had sent this girl to the hospital, if they had removed these attackers from the premises, or had a policy in place to prevent cellphones in the building . 

My prayers go out to Adriana's family. 

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