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08-04-2014, 11:50 AM
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
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Every day for four years, bullies made him a target of their attacks.
That's because Jason (not his real name), now 17, used to weigh 60kg at 1.5m tall in secondary school and cried every time someone pointed out his weight.
He was once told by a bully at recess time: “You know you’re fat, then why don’t you die? If you die, you won’t be hungry.”
One in eight students here is bullied at least once every week, according to a 2006 survey done by the Coalition Against Bullying for Children and Youth (Cabcy), a non-profit group.
A new survey of around 5,000 students is under way. But even without the latest figures, Cabcy's founder Esther Ng asked: “Do we really need (to see) the numbers first before doing anything?”
Read the full report in The New Paper on Tuesday (April 8).
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?178965-Fat-boy-is-taunted-If-you-die-you-won-t-go-hungry&goto=newpost).
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Every day for four years, bullies made him a target of their attacks.
That's because Jason (not his real name), now 17, used to weigh 60kg at 1.5m tall in secondary school and cried every time someone pointed out his weight.
He was once told by a bully at recess time: “You know you’re fat, then why don’t you die? If you die, you won’t be hungry.”
One in eight students here is bullied at least once every week, according to a 2006 survey done by the Coalition Against Bullying for Children and Youth (Cabcy), a non-profit group.
A new survey of around 5,000 students is under way. But even without the latest figures, Cabcy's founder Esther Ng asked: “Do we really need (to see) the numbers first before doing anything?”
Read the full report in The New Paper on Tuesday (April 8).
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?178965-Fat-boy-is-taunted-If-you-die-you-won-t-go-hungry&goto=newpost).