In the spring of 2023, a 13 year-old boy, Terry Badger III from Covington, Indiana, dreamed of playing baseball for the St. Louis Cardinals, took his own life - the victim of bullying.
A girl in Michigan is afraid to go to school because she knows she will be taunted because of her religion.
Several studies have shown a direct correlation not only between bullying and teen suicide but also the negative effects that bullying have on academic performance. And it perhaps need not be said that the bullied child may also become a bully as well, or even pick up a weapon and become a killer. To put it bluntly, bullying kills not only dreams, but it kills kids.
