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Hello my name is Jacob carpenter I am 14 and I’m in going to 9th grade. I know Josie Lou Ratley from school. I went to the same school as she did for 2 years. Every since Elementary I got teased. I was always too tall or too fat or sometimes maybe I even have different colored clothes on.

I was bullied and harassed so much in middle school that when I reported to a teacher that someone hit me in my face, she said, she “didn’t want to be bothered with my problems”, “she has more to do then deal with me all day and every day.” The security at my old school is mostly afraid of the students. Nobody in the school cares about the student’s safety. I think somebody needs to do something. Somebody needs to tell somebody or write to somebody this needs to stop ASAP.

During gym class while we were in the pool I came back to find my cell phone was missing. When I told the teacher he called security but when they came they told me that it was my fault for bringing it to school. However, the following day someone stole $25.00 from another student and the police officer at school searched everybody’s backpacks, lockers, etc. I feel that I was neglected and even mistreated by staff and other faculty.  No one treated me fairly.  They didn’t care about what happened to me at all. Every day I would just get beaten up just for going to that school. When I would tell teachers what happened to me, they would tell me “they did not hear it or they did not see it.” I only had a couple of friends in that school, the rest were bullies.

People don’t understand that when you get teased all day every day you can’t do your work so I started getting F’s on my assignments. Then one day I went to see another teacher, and then he and my grandma started talking and got me into the IB program. Home schooling is not that bad, I’m still alone, I’m still lonely, but it is better than being with the other kids who treated me like an animal. I told the teacher what was happening they told me “they did not hear it or they did not see it.” I only had a couple of friends in that school, the rest were bullies. So when that year was final over me. So I was so much happier that I can get away from all of them.

When I went to 8^th grade, I thought things were going to be better. I made a friend named Jonathon we became best friends. I had good teachers and I was starting to like my classes, until my worst nightmare showed up. He would walk up to me and punch me, smack me, do whatever he wanted and did not get into trouble. OK once I was sitting in math class and he accused me of sitting in his seat– WHEN WE DID NOT EVEN HAVE ASSIGNED SEATS. I was talking to my friend and then he came and set get the F#@K out of my seat and I said “no this is not your seat” and that’s when he hit me across my face. Every kid in the class room SAW and when I told the teacher she said she did not see just because the teachers and the students are afraid of the bullies. So then I was getting upset so I walked out of the classroom and called my mom. She came up to school and talked to the principle and the principle said that because nobody saw she couldn’t do anything. Can you believe that!

At school, I was pushed into the bike rack and I hurt my back. I could not move. It hurt me to move. So my grandma took me to the emergency room. We were fighting because his sister hated me so I told him I don’t want to be around her when he she is with him so he pushed me into a bike rack. It turned out that I bruised my Kennedy and I could not put weight on my back, so in school I used a wheel chair. Later in the year I found out this kid really had no friends like me. So when he got friends he told me off and just stared making fun of me and running by and hitting me. More into the year the kid started hitting me more, making fun of me more, and ETC. One time I was walking in the hall way to get to my next class and this kid was walking towards me so I walked away and when he saw me he walked to me and hit me in my face and then I ran to the office to tell but she said I did not see it and you have no one that saw it. Then I told her check the cameras because he said no, “Jacob walked to me and started making fun of me” when they checked the camera they found out he lied and gave him one more chance and he was still lying and he only GOT 2 DAYS OUT OF SCHOOL THAT’S ALL.

Another day when I was in Spanish this kid hit me in the face so hard that I blacked out for like a minute. When I finally got up from it I ran out the door to the office called home told them my grandma was there in under a minute this is the at least 50th time I go up to the main office to tell them. They finally see I’m right and guess what they give him 3 days out of school 3 DAYS THAT’S ALL………… is that fair?  My grandma takes me to ER I get a cat scan they find nothing is the mater but I got at least a 4 inch bump on my face my grandma calls 911. She calls the school to find the kids last name and the Principal and my grandma FIGHT on the phone. They yell at each other. She was so rude to my grandma. When the cop came there he told us there was nothing they could do. So after that my grandma did not send me back to that school after me hearing about Michael Brewer I was afraid something like that was going to happen to me. She could not make me go back. Then I hear what happened to poor Josie. I did not want to go I am afraid. And they need more security. So my grandma took me out of the school and is now home schooling me online through FLVS.NET.  It is Florida’s free online school. Now because of all that I’m out of that school and now I’m home schooled it is so much better than being bet up daily.

Now because I’m out of that school I have B’s in my classes rather than getting D’s and F’s. And now I don’t have to make sure I don’t say the wrong thing to somebody or I walk the wrong way. Or maybe I even breathe the wrong way I can now. And I don’t and I don’t have to worry about getting beat up. Josie you are not the only one that gets bullied.