NOBODY’S A NOBODY by Michael Grossman
I used to be so popular,
When I was back at school.
The teacher’s used to love me.
The kids thought I was cool.
I used to be so pretty,
And very good at sport.
Used to think I was quite special,
Or at least that’s what I thought.
I used to hang with cool girls
Who knew the latest trends.
Everyone looked up to us,
And wanted to be friends.
So many kids we just ignored
I regret it in a way,
They may have seemed like nerds back then,
But look at them today.
I remember this one girl,
Big Stella Green
With these ugly, awkward glasses
And a huge nose in between.
We used to tease and tease her,
Before and after school.
Once old Tommy McNoughton
Shoved her in the abandoned pool.
If only he would have known
That later, in a time of strife,
Stella Green would operate on his fiance,
And all but save her life.
What about Kayoko Kishimoto?
Our only Japanese student.
She was brilliant at science,
But at English – not so fluent.
We would never come and talk to her.
No one would even try.
They just left her all alone,
Supposing she was shy.
Did she end up learning English?
Well, what can you say
About the winner of an Oscar,
For Best Original Screenplay.
There was Dante Ferretti,
Who was the ‘school geek’,
With his great boofy hair,
And pimples for each cheek.
So tired of getting abused
And so embarrassed with his looks,
He used to hide his spotty face,
Inside a range of different books.
Who would have thought
That this reserved, avid reader,
Would go on to become
Our new State Opposition Leader?
Everyone used to fear
Max Stockwell “The Freak”.
Rumour had it he ate live snails,
And showered once a week.
The girls thought he was mad,
The boys thought he was weird.
He’d come walking through a corridor,
And the corridor all but cleared.
I hear he’s no longer weird,
And no longer is he ‘mad’;
Instead, he’s changing nappies
As a loving, stay-home dad.
I was never better than them.
I used to be so lame.
If I only understood,
That we are all the same.
I used to be “cool”,
But never was I happy,
Until the day I realised
NOBODY’S A NOBODY.
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Nowadays There is Nowhere to Hide From Bullies
September 28, 2012Even dropping out of school isn’t an insurance policy against being bullied:
A 16-year-old San Diego cheerleader who was repeatedly bullied by her peers says the taunting continued even after she dropped out, ABC News reports.
Katie Uffens left Westview High School earlier this year and enrolled in a home-school charter program after she was told about the existence of a group called the “KKK” — short for the “Kill Katie Klub.”
Mother Giselle Uffens says, however, that there was no escaping the alleged bullies, who proceeded to harass Katie online via social media after she left Westview.
KGTV reports Ms. Uffens collected defamatory photos and comments the bullies made on Facebook and Twitter, and also recorded dozens of allegedly threatening phone calls made to their house, which she turned over to police.
Earlier this month, two teenage boys were arrested at Westview and questioned in connection with the incident. One of them, Nick Aguirre, told KGTV that while he admitted to playing a role in bullying Katie last year, he is actually the victim in this situation, having been taken out of school publicly in handcuffs.
Aguirre said the “Kill Katie Klub” was just a joke he made in passing to a friend, and that he had not talked to her since.
“Basically, what I said to one of my friends was ‘Kill Katie Klub,'” Aguirre told KGTV. “It was a one-liner thing. We never had any intentions to hurt anybody.”
He also denied having any involvement with the threatening phone calls, despite Giselle Uffens’ claims to the contrary.
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