“Bullying kills – and our country is failing the children”
“Every day, more than 50 000 children to school and know: No one likes me. I myself have been eye to eye with the horror when a young, bullied person is not able to live longer. For bullying kills. It is our country’s greatest betrayal. The betrayal of the children whose eyes silently screaming ”see me”, while we continue to turn a blind eye.”
“Our träslöjdslärare had clearly prohibited us to use the machine, still had the used and broken. Hearing about who had broken the machine was held by klassföreståndaren the same day, where one by one was called in. I am the last.”
” I don’t know, I saw nothing, I turned, with my back to everyone else.”
“I repeat my answer about ten times, as many times as the question is asked. But klassföreståndaren will not give up. “
“– you Can’t just say who it was?! All the others have already told that it was Martin, can you just say it so that we are clear?”
“All the others have said that it was Martin? Then it must have been Martin. They would not find on, all of them. So I say:”
“the Next day gapes Martin’s bench empty in the classroom and at the vanishing cabinet is a woman and a man and crying. Our nature clears his throat and says:”
“– this is Martin’s parents, and they have something important to tell you.”
“the Mother is holding up a letter. Her hands are shaking. The tears flow down on paper and I’m terrified of what she’ll say.”
“– Martin did not come home last night. Instead we found this letter to you, says the mother with a voice that barely carries, and read on: ”You in the class has always hated me. You think I’m disgusting. You don’t want to be with me…””
“the Words on Martin’s time in class 8B is rolled up. Breaks of solitude. How much each little hello meant. I mentioned that one of the that ever turned him from nobody to somebody.”
“So will the words that change everything:”
“”But when to and with Frida said that it was I who had broken the machine in the woodwork, then I can’t take more. So now I jump from the älvsborg bridge, so you won’t have me.””
“I get no air. I have taken the life of my classmate.”
“I Think. But at the älvsborg bridge change Martin when he sees the black waters far below. He decides to run away, but the caller later their parents and tells me where he is.”
“I’m so grateful that I got a second chance to learn my life’s most important lesson:”
“the Importance of including. There is no cost. It is not difficult, it is easy.”
“But more than 50 000 children are still bullied in the Swedish school today, according to figures from the National centre for suicide research and prevention of mental ill-health. 50 children and young people choose to take their own life each year, showing the same statistics. So how should we change?”
“Many workplaces in Sweden, employee satisfaction surveys once per year. Not to measure the consciousness of every week is none other than the both stupid and dangerous. When trust is crucial to both work and learn.”
“On the Ådalsskolan in Kramfors are the principal Peyman Vahedi. He realized that a question is so important, that he must set it to all students each day. The question: ”do you Feel safe in school today?”, he via an app to their students, every day. Answer no no, a signal goes directly to the school leaders and the school counsellor, who on the same day addressing the issue. “
“When I for a couple of years ago, met Payman at a digitaliseringskonferens, I asked representatives of the national agency for education on the spot, why we do not create the same solution for all schools in Sweden? It was not, was the answer. All develop or procure their own solution. Expensive and idiotic.”
“we cannot afford to wait. So digitaliseringsminister Anders Ygeman minister of education, Anna Ekström: Can you please, introduce now?”
“at the same time, we must continue to give priority to the vital call, as so many educators and students already have about our most important values in classrooms around our country. Conversations about compassion, respect and communication. Call to take an active choice and include.”
