On Wednesday, March 28th we had a speaker come on, his name was Mr Halligan. He talked to us about suicide and bullying. October 7th, 2004 at 6am in the morning his son Ryan Halligan had committed suicide from depression and bullies. His son Ryan was at the age of 2 and could not speak yet, most 2 year olds can speak at that age but he couldn’t, he had a speaking disability. When Ryan had reached 5th grade the bullying started to happen. When Ryan received a bad grade his “friends” decided to pick on him for that. His “friends” also made fun of his speaking disability as well. Ryan couldn’t pronounce certain words and he stuttered a lot and his “friends” thought it was ok to make fun of him about that. Which in my opinion is so wrong of them. No one shoukd make fun of anyone for any matter because no one deserves that.
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I mean it’s not the best when someone calls its sped class because it makes you feel sped. When they said “oh my god you’re the stupidest person I know, you’re so sped.” That made me feel like absolute crap like no I did not show emotion, some days I let it slide but other days I actually said something to them, which to me takes courage to stand up for yourself and for what you think is right. In my opinion I’m not stupid I’m not dumb I mean not any of this I may have this days where I get bad grades or I have bad attitude about school but in reality I actually do try and for the people who do not see that really should. But what I’m trying to say is that it is SO IMPORTANT to stand up for yourself and show them how much it means to you when someone calls you those hurtful things, because you are better than
I mean it’s not the best when someone calls its sped class because it makes you feel sped. When they said “oh my god you’re the stupidest person I know, you’re so sped.” That made me feel like absolute crap like no I did not show emotion, some days I let it slide but other days I actually said something to them, which to me takes courage to stand up for yourself and for what you think is right. In my opinion I’m not stupid I’m not dumb I mean not any of this I may have this days where I get bad grades or I have bad attitude about school but in reality I actually do try and for the people who do not see that really should. But what I’m trying to say is that it is SO IMPORTANT to stand up for yourself and show them how much it means to you when someone calls you those hurtful things, because you are better than