A 10-year-old girl in Duryea, Pennsylvania, reached out in a video asking people to stop bullying one another and detailing her own experience with bullying.
Jenn Slater shared the video of her daughter, Cassidy, on her Facebook page. The fourth grader is holding signs in the video saying she has been bullied since first grade.
“One day during recess, a group of kids grabbed my purse off a teacher, and spit on it and me,” one sign read.
Then her story got even worse.
Jenn shared the video on her Facebook page after somebody asked the social media platform to take her daughter’s page down, since Facebook requires users to be at least 13.
“I will be my daughters voice I will share her story and I hope others will share too [sic],” Jenn posted.
On one of her signs, Cassidy says the principal at her school, John Adams Elementary School in Scranton, “doesn’t do anything” about the bullying.
“It’s your job to remind them of what we teach them at home, if we teach them not to bully you teach them the same,” she wrote. “[I]f their getting away with it at school your contradicting what we teach them at home, we need to be on the same page.”
“A million things went through my head,” he said. “The first thing was, I was failing (in) my job as a parent.”
At the end the girl asks: “Stop bullying! Not just for me for other kids to [sic] Please share my story!”
The video has garnered over 150,000 views and prompted responses from around the world, including many words of encouragement and even offers of help.
“We had no idea it would get that kind of response,” Warner said.
“There were so many supportive comments,” Warner said.
On Monday, April 2, Warner met with Mario Emiliani, the principal at Cassidy’s school.
The school changed Cassidy’s lunch period and recess, Warner said. That should help the girl to avoid the bullies. The school also offered to switch Cassidy’s class, but she declined. The family may reconsider, however, if the bullying continues.
