People who have seen bullying
Dave's story
"My mate Steve was a good laugh until this new kid turned up. As soon as he joined the school, he started rubbing everyone up the wrong way. He was kind of cool and a few lads started hanging around with the new kid. Then the bullying started and Steve was one of his first targets.
Steve tried to answer back at first, but then he got beaten up after school and didn't answer back after that. Everyday, Steve would get hassled. I could see him getting more annoyed, but then doing nothing about it because he was scared of saying anything. Then all the new kid's mates started joining in on picking Steve.
Steve was unhappy and started taking it out on me. He always looked sad and didn't want to talk to anyone. It was then I decided to do something about it.
I didn't want to grass on the new kid who was bullying Steve. I didn't know what to do, so I asked my mum and she suggested talking to Mr Cooley, my favourite English teacher. He understood what was happening and promised that he wouldn't tell anyone who he had spoken to.
A few days later, all the bullying stopped. I don't know what happened, but Steve is much happier now. For some reason the new kid has stopped doing what he did."
