Teacher 'puts her foot down' when heartbroken girl changes schools after being 'badly bullied'—her response is powerful
The ruthless act of body-shaming is bitter and heartbreaking. Children calling out fellow students for being overweight, underweight or even far from stereotypical body ratios is something that should be discouraged. A teacher who goes by @nouryoncee on TikTok decided to teach her kids a powerful lesson after a student changed schools due to bullying. Knowing that the bullying tragically changed the life of her student, the teacher ensured she made a crucial fact very clear.
The teacher sat her students down and very seriously began to address them. She first pointed out that things like looks, weight or appearance are not something that can be altered at the snap of a finger. “You can't change overnight. You cannot change being fat, obese or ugly overnight. But you know what you can change overnight? Being a nasty person. Being disrespectful. Being a bully, making fun of somebody,” she noted. The teacher went on to point out how the kids bullied the former student because of her weight and boldly stated they had no right to be so critical.
"Y'all have zero reasons to attack her, but you go and call her fat every day. You can change not liking each other, but she can't go home and go to sleep and wake up skinny. It's not going to work. That doesn't work. I'm tired of it,” she added. She further gave them a reality check and explained how impactful and shattering bullying can be. She mentioned, "Y'all are in seventh grade. There are seventh graders, sixth graders and even elementary students; they go home and they end it because of kids like you. Stop making fun of someone's weight. It's not funny, it's not cute.”
The teacher explained that as a “fat person” herself, she empathizes and understands the pain the student went through. She also cited a few remarks and acts she noticed or heard of and called them out. "It hurts me to see she can't even come into the room because y'all are so nasty to her. This is considered bullying. I got kids in every period drawing her on my board and then I got this class saying that she's sitting on people and killing them. That's rude,” the teacher boldly said. She considered the seventh graders as teenagers who understand the importance of life and cruelties like bullying and spoke to them with a firm tone.
Sharing her personal experience, the teacher explained that she wanted to “disappear every single day” when she was bullied as a student. “Would you be able to live with yourselves if she disappeared?” she asked her students. She shared a strong warning that the kids have no right to “sit in this class and sit in front of me and bully her so much that she can’t even come into her own learning environment.” Concluding her message, she asked the kids, “Do we understand?” “Yes,” the kids softly replied. “The day I put my foot down. She was so badly bullied, she left the school,” the teacher wrote in her caption. @leahmckenzie noted, “We need more teachers like this.” @kenziesn0w said, “This would have changed my life as a kid. I love it.”
@nouryoncee the day I put my foot down in one of the worst schools I’ve ever worked at. I stuck up for a girl who was so badly bullied, she left the school. The last time I ever saw her face was when she tried coming back into class, but the class laughed at her and she ran out.
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