My friend Amy sent me this very powerful message:
A
teacher in New York was teaching her class about bullying and gave them the
following exercise to perform. She had the children take out a piece of paper
and told them to crumple it up, stomp on it and really mess it up but do not rip
it. Then she had them unfold the paper, smooth it out and look at how scarred
and dirty is was. She then told them to tell it they’re sorry. Now, even though
they said they were sorry and tried to fix the
paper, she pointed out all the scars they left behind. And that those scars will
never go away no matter how hard they tried to fix it. That is what happens when
a child bully’s another child, they may say they’re sorry, but the scars are
there forever. The looks on the faces of the children in the classroom told her
the message hit home.
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