This is so hard to watch. A 9 year old child is filmed by his mom after being bullied in school.

[Maraya1969]

I so hope this gets to the correct authorities and something can be done to fix this situation.

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[cherryinpa]

1. Shocking video

Shocking video.

[JFlash]

2. Permanent expulsion of the worst of the worst school bullies ought to be on the table

Maybe not at 9 years old, but if they are 14 and up and really, really bad, and the behaviors are repeated and violent, then I say, throw 'em out on the streets.

[Maraya1969]

3. Actually I think the bullies have a mental problem and should be treated. If we just

throw them out they are going to continue or get worse. I don't have any idea how a bully can be treated but I bet people have studied it.

[Demovictory9]

4. awwww

[Demovictory9]

5. him smiling again

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[Maraya1969]

6. Oh that is wonderful! Thanks for posting it!

[peggysue2]

7. Breaks your heart watching something like this

Growing up is hard enough without being the brunt of every bad joke, every bully's taunt and made to feel your best option is suicide.

Nine years old for pity's sake.

We had a child living next door in Jersey with a severe facial deformity. He was looking at multiple surgeries once he was old enough, procedures to ameliorate the birth defect. But I can proudly say, the kids on our block went out of their way to protect him, surround him with friendship and lots of playing. It really did have to do with all of us sitting our kids down and telling them how important it was to Darren and his family that he feel welcomed and loved and that it would a measure of themselves in how they treated him.

Surprisingly, the kids responded, the smallest to the largest, and they went about putting a protective shield around the child, would call out kids from outside the neighborhood if they tried to be mean-mouthed or cruel.

It really does start in the home and needs to be a community effort to educate our kids about caring and kindness, respect for differences in the human family and how damaging and hurtful bullying truly is to emotional well-being. A child simply isn't equipped to handle this sort of garbage.

Btw, the pix of this little boy smiling with the team member is grand.

[smirkymonkey]

9. +1000

That's wonderful. It starts with the family and bullies need to be called out and disciplined immediately. Not even one incident can be allowed to go by without actions.

This poor little boy. Watching this was just heartbreaking. I couldn't even finish. Watch a child that young who wanted to kill himself and wanting nothing more to die because of the cruelty he faced at the hands of his peers was just too much to bear and no child should ever have to go through this or be made to feel this way.

[cally]

8. Lived it.

Hardest thing I have ever faced in my life watching my loved one come home from school and the school saying to feel sorry for bullies. And it’s just what girls do. PTA president daughter was ring leader

[lamp_shade]

10. Quaden Bayles: Australian boy in bullying video receives global support

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-51582696

[renate]

11. This world COULD be kind and loving

It wouldn’t cost anyone a penny.

We could be kind and supportive of one another and we would ALL be happier for it.

But someone somewhere profits from people being mean to each other, and that snowballs because humans are naturally weak as well as naturally good, so here we are.

It’s so horrible, what we have become. So needlessly, so pointlessly, we have made ourselves so miserable. The alternative is right there at our fingertips, so accessible and so much better and kinder, but someone somewhere gains profit and power and ad revenue from our infighting and tribalism, so it continues. What a wonderful world it would be without cruelty. That poor little guy. I hope the outpouring of support for him brightens his year and beyond.