Courage Connections

In fifth grade, I had arrived 3 days late to school, the start of the year. When I came, people were in their groups and cliques. I blame myself for not coming early enough, because if I had, maybe I could stop the problem. I'm going to write about what happened on the internet in the whole problem. Cyber-bullying. The bully was named Vivienne, the queen bee of the year. She acts like she's the nice person and her friends are too. But her and her friends just gossip, act nice, act smart, etc. I'm not afraid to stand up to boys so I've been in their gossip before. Ok, so, this bully sent me emails (i need to inform, there was a new girl who I was nice to but everyone wanted to be friends with her so I washed away) about how mean I was. She had said, "It's like you guys are acting cooler than us. Just you and your friend, walking around alone talking, avoiding us, as if you're cooler than us." I had cried once from her emails but it was more like a "I'm sick of this, leave me alone, you annoying person." cry. She had even whined on the messages, "You made me cry!!" that's what she had said. I was just like... "Ummm... yea, ok. I don't care, stop sending me and my friends emails." I stood up to her in the end and took my friends away from the problem. My friends found out why I was so hung on to not being with the cliques and just us. Because, it tore us apart and there was so much back stabbing people could get.

If I had that type of problem now, I'd take my friends and explain why I didn't want them there. I know, it's like bossing them around. But, I just don't want to see them in cliques and just gossiping like that. Cause' those cliques? They don't care. They just keep talking like it's nobody's business. And THEY think they're the nice ones. My friends didn't know why I was so angry. Well, they did, but I guess they wanted to not be in my rules. But they got the consequences. I let them learn. They came back, knowing why I did that and it's a tight bond, even now.

To help ISKL feel more safe and welcome, I would do absolutely nothing! It is already as safe and as welcoming than any other school I've ever seen in my life.