The Anti-bullying Solution

hen I was in the 4th grade I got my first pair of glasses. I didn’t realize
what I couldn’t see until I began wearing glasses, then contact lenses and
eventually even lasik surgery. Until then, I thought everyone saw things as I
saw them. But once I could really see, I finally realized how bad my vision
had been all along. In schools today it’s unfortunate that some
administrators, teachers and students are the same way. They have such
limited vision that they cannot see what is happening in their schools. The
statistics are continuing to get worse, literally thousands of students each
day are staying home from school out of fear. Fear of being talked about,
teased, tormented and made fun of to the point they believe they are an unfit
out cast.

We have all seen the 1983 movie The Christmas Story, when 9 year old Ralphie
is getting teased and tortured everyday about little things such as not being
tough, his friends and his glasses. Then it happens one day, Ralphie
completely loses it after taking one last snow ball to the face! What does he
do? He charges the school bully Scut Farkus, and proceeds to beats up the
bully until his face is completely bloody and his mother comes down the
street and pulls him off of the bully. Back then, not much harm in that, we
might say the bully got what he deserved and Ralphie stood up for himself and
those around him. Problem solved! But fast forward 27 years later and see how
man different problems we would have. We already know that Ralphie gets
arrested, expelled from school, not to mention the troublemaker label and
even becomes the target of fighting from the gangs attached to the bully and
the list goes on.

This is an easy one to see, but my challenge to schools is what about the
Ralphie’s that would never fight back, the ones that simply going on
beating themselves up in their head thinking they are not good enough, they
don’t belong here, or even here on earth. Or the teenagers that become
depressed, they shut down and they begin to drink, smoke or cut until their
problems seem to go away! This is the slippery slope we see every day in the
lives of teenagers across the country, or should I say those of us that have
had a vision upgrade can see every day. The reason I bring this up is there
are hundreds of thousands of kids that are waiting for someone to stand up
for them, let them know they are safe and that in spite of all the things
being said and done, they are good enough to be here and certainly good
enough to achieve their goals and dreams in their life.

Join me, Mr MOJO Travis Brown, America’s youth and teen leadership coach on
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Booking Mr MOJO to come to your school or city and empower students to take a
stand!