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Tonight at work I watched a news report that was quite shocking. There was a boy at a Queensland primary school who was being bullied by another student. Instead of confronting the matter by going through the proper channels (talking to the teachers about it), he took matters into his own hands and confronted the bully with a knife at school! Teachers had to try and calm the boy down, and the whole school had what's called a "lock down", where all the students had to be evacuated into one area of the school until the police came and the boy was apprehended. Thankfully, nobody was hurt.
This is just another example of how damaging it is to let bullying get out of hand. Sure you need to be able to protect yourself from bullies, but there are better ways and means of doing it. There are programs designed to help and protect you from these sorts of people without having you to take matters into your own hands and do something stupid. If it weren't for the teachers and the police who got involved, this boy, who was a victim of schoolyard bullying, would have easily become a murderer.
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