Fat boy is taunted: If you die, you won't go hungry

[nutbush]

http://www.tnp.sg/content/fat-boy-t...l&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Every day for four years, bullies made him a target of their attacks.

That's because Jason (not his real name), now 17, used to weigh 60kg at 1.5m tall in secondary school and cried every time someone pointed out his weight.

He was once told by a bully at recess time: “You know you’re fat, then why don’t you die? If you die, you won’t be hungry.”

One in eight students here is bullied at least once every week, according to a 2006 survey done by the Coalition Against Bullying for Children and Youth (Cabcy), a non-profit group.

A new survey of around 5,000 students is under way. But even without the latest figures, Cabcy's founder Esther Ng asked: “Do we really need (to see) the numbers first before doing anything?”

Read the full report in The New Paper on Tuesday (April 8).

 

[Scrooball (clone)]

Wow kids these days are pretty screwed up. But those bullied kids may turn to focusing on their studies, being nerds and do well in schools.

 

[LEGEND]

Who did Jason vote for? :p

 

[laksaboy]

Fucked up parents produces fucked up kids. Kids these days spend a huge chunk of their day at school, I noticed that even on a day without CCA, their school day ends much later than when I was a schoolkid. At home, they only interact with their maids. On weekends, they get ushered to tuition centres or enrichment classes.

 

[halsey02]

Fucked up parents produces fucked up kids. Kids these days spend a huge chunk of their day at school, I noticed that even on a day without CCA, their school day ends much later than when I was a schoolkid. At home, they only interact with their maids. On weekends, they get ushered to tuition centres or enrichment classes.

fucked up parents produce fucked up kids who will go on to vote for a fucked up government...these must be the 60% kids, who have no mind of their own & have no life also...their lives are spent getting a paper qualification & when they come out to the work force they have to compete for jobs with foreigners who have "imitation" qialifications, & will not get one for their F$#$%# government had let in these people....so these are the F$#% up generation...

 

[nutbush]

i am with you on this one...:o

fucked up parents produce fucked up kids who will go on to vote for a fucked up government...these must be the 60% kids, who have no mind of their own & have no life also...their lives are spent getting a paper qualification & when they come out to the work force they have to compete for jobs with foreigners who have "imitation" qialifications, & will not get one for their F$#$%# government had let in these people....so these are the F$#% up generation...

 

[Equalisation]

Smelly girl is taunted if you don't bathe, you end up as washerwoman !:o

 

[Agoraphobic]

When I was a schoolboy, you deal with bullies in one of two ways. Either you fight back, or your friends gang up with you to fight back. Even Ah Qua had their own "gang" then. If I brought this up to my father, he would laugh at me, call me cissy, and tell me to go hit the bully. Problem solved.

Despite this kind of upbringing and exposure, I didn't grow up a violent person. Bullying and dealing with it was part and parcel of growing up.

Cheers!

 

[nutbush]

i still think it's good to fight when you are growing up as a boy. it toughen you up...

but i was bullied by the cronies when i was in ST...:o simply i was too engrossed to be a good and decent person at work.

When I was a schoolboy, you deal with bullies in one of two ways. Either you fight back, or your friends gang up with you to fight back. Even Ah Qua had their own "gang" then. If I brought this up to my father, he would laugh at me, call me cissy, and tell me to go hit the bully. Problem solved.

Despite this kind of upbringing and exposure, I didn't grow up a violent person. Bullying and dealing with it was part and parcel of growing up.

Cheers!

 

[Fatboy]

Who did Jason vote for? :p

He is only 17, maybe 2016 you ask him again

 

[da dick]

hoo did his parenz vote for?

 

[Agoraphobic]

Fist fights are ok at up to secondary school. When kids are older than that age, they are adults already and fist fights can turn really nasty, especially when gangs are called in as "back up." As grown ups, fighting should be carried out by lawyers or some kind of settlement talk afer all, we're supposed to have grown up and matured. Having said this, I do not wish to promote fighting as a means of dispute settlement, but, sometimes one needs to stand up for oneself and to show bullies they cannot easily get their way.

Cheers!

i still think it's good to fight when you are growing up as a boy. it toughen you up...

but i was bullied by the cronies when i was in ST...:o simply i was too engrossed to be a good and decent person at work.

 

[nutbush]

i am referring to fights when you are a perhaps primary schoolboy not those gang related activities. the ones i know turn out well in life, successful entrepreneurs.

Fist fights are ok at up to secondary school. When kids are older than that age, they are adults already and fist fights can turn really nasty, especially when gangs are called in as "back up." As grown ups, fighting should be carried out by lawyers or some kind of settlement talk afer all, we're supposed to have grown up and matured. Having said this, I do not wish to promote fighting as a means of dispute settlement, but, sometimes one needs to stand up for oneself and to show bullies they cannot easily get their way.

Cheers!

 

[Agoraphobic]

True. Life is a long process and things change. The boy in my secondary school who was sort of the "terror" and fierce samseng hoodlum, ran into him a few years ago and what a good, honest tax-paying citizen he turned into, and so proud that his daughter was head prefect in her secondary school! Wish him continued success in his life.

Cheers!

i am referring to fights when you are a perhaps primary schoolboy not those gang related activities. the ones i know turn out well in life, successful entrepreneurs.