Reading Log #2

Reading log #2

Title: Boy 'driven' to suicide by bullies
Text type: Article
Published by: James Tozer-daily mail UK

This article is about an 11 year old boy who's parents believe bullies drove him to commit suicide. This article has his mother talking about her son's suicide and what she believes drove him to doing this.

This article really caught my attention because this is an 11 year old boy that had committed suicide, 11 years old. He was bullied for being smart and different. "it was like torture they'd call him names like 'gay boy' and 'fatso.'  This gives us just a small insight and example of what really happened to Thomas, it's quite sad to see this generation of kids bullying someone for actually doing something with there life, for actually wanting to succeed in life. This gives us only a tiny understanding of how he was feeling before he killed himself. Thomas was only 11 when he had, had enough of life. This shows that kids these days really don't think before they speak, they don't care until it's too late.

I feel really angry at schools that don't help kids who get bullied. In the article Wallasey School headmaster Martin Pope said: "There is absolutely no record of the child reporting bullying within the school. We saw no evidence of Thomas being treated differently by other pupils." Does this mean that just because there was no physical and visual bullying seen on Tomas, it did not happen? I believe that schools should be less 'selfish' and instead of thinking about how it looks on their school think about what happened behind close doors. Kids these days are sneaky and malicious. The school is in my opinion being quite inconsiderate because a Mother has just lost her child and all they can think say is that pretty much because they did not see any bullying it did not happen. 
At Hornby, we have a pretty good system when it comes to bullying, in the last year we have really became more considerate of what may be happen behind closed doors. At Hornby, we have become a lot more harsh when someone is getting bullied for example, if someone is being bullied we have our school Councillor and a lot of trusted students and adults. Hornby High School have also started to punish people if they are bullying someone else, an example of this is a lot more people have been stood down for bullying. People think that they will not get caught but the systems around bullying have really stepped up their game. School should really be more aware that kids these days that are being bullied are scared to stand up, they are scared to voice the abuse, but now that Tomas is gone, no one will ever understand how he was feeling and what was really happening.