Children’s lives are changed by bullies every year all over the world, especially for Jamie Nabozny, a student in Ashland, Wisconsin. He was homosexual from a young age and constantly got bullied because of it. Every day at school, he would be bullied verbally and physically. After one ruthless attack, he was hospitalized and had surgery. He had been studying when one of the bullies walked up to him, kicked the books out of his hand, and kept on kicking him. Once he was finished, he leaned down and whispered in Jamie’s ear, “If you tell anyone, I’ll kill you.” This put Jamie over the line and he decided to act. He brought it to court trying to sue the school district for not protecting him. Bullying kids is harmful to the bully and the kid you’re bullying because it can get the bully into deep trouble and can leave the kid different for life.
Bullying is an occurrence that happens all the time and changes prey’s lives in the worst way possible. Jamie Nabozny was bullied at middle school and high school, and he even …show more content…
Jamie Nabozny was bullied for years and eventually he brought it to court. He was making a case against the school for not protecting him and one of the bullies, Roy Grande, was brought into court to testify. Mary Podlesny, Jamie’s middle school principal, denied everything in court, that they had heard about the bullying and had been in a meeting with parents about the bullying. Near the end of the trial, Jamie talked himself, and it brought him to tears, speaking about all he went through as a kid: the constant taunting, kicking, and punching, wearing him down. Reliving all of that must have been terrible for him, but it won him the case. He earned $900,000 from the school and the bullies were completely ashamed. This could happen to any bully out there and everyone should realize that bullying is just not worth