That’s disgusting. If you are even old enough to have children, I hope you are teaching them to behave with a little more class than that. Who are these parents who let their kids go to school and torture other kids for perceived transgressions like being “smelly or ugly”? They shouldn’t be having kids!
I also find it interesting that most people don’t know anyone who has been bullied because of their name. Especially considering how much time people spend talking about picking a name that would prevent their child being bullied.
I have never known anyone to get bullied based on their name alone. Usually they were picked on for other reasons. Maybe if they were less popular, less attractive, chubby, or too shy. One incident sticks out in my head though. There was this white girl named [name]Angelique[/name] (pronounced An-jail-eek) who people teased. She urinated on herself in middle school one day, and from that point on people referred to her as Angeleaky…emphasis on the leaky part. So, like I said, I think most teasing isn’t caused by people’s names. It usually happens to certain types of children, no matter what you name them. I don’t think [name]Ava[/name] has a better shot at avoiding bullying than children with less popular names.
The kids who were teased the most when I was a kid had names like [name]Christopher[/name], [name]David[/name], [name]Michelle[/name], and [name]Susan[/name]. Nothing weird about the names - a lot weird about the kids! [name]Just[/name] goes to show you that names aren’t the only thing that make some poor children easy targets…
[name]Shame[/name] on you guys. Seriously.
Acting like children who get bullied deserve it somehow, when the fact is, it’s the bullies who were raised poorly, have a lack of values and character and manners.
You disgust me.
[name]Read[/name] this:
Tara25, hannah, sweetpea, and megamalone, go home and take a long, hard look at yourselves in the mirror. Anyone who justifies bullying should be DEEPLY ashamed.
[name]Louise[/name] was the kid that wore a dragon chain never cut her hair and her pants were never long enough
I don’t think anyone was advocating bullying. It is simply a fact that certain types of kids get bullied more often than others. I’m not in any way saying that’s ok, it’s just true. Bullying is terrible and I can’t imagine any parents encouraging it. It’s possible the parents of some bullies don’t realize what their children are doing.
My name is [name]Vikki[/name]…Pick a word that rhymes and I was likely called it. That being said, it is something that most kids grew out of by the time we were eight. Then the bullying changed to something different…
Side note: .I wore glasses, I read a lot, was slightly nerdy, and tended to overshare stuff that I read. In short, I wasn’t the same as the other kids and that somehow made me a threat. I’m an adult and more than fine now, but it took getting away from my small town to a large college for me to realize that while I’m different from the kids I grew up with it, I"m pretty normal for the rest of the world.
I was teased momentarily in elementary school, it started when someone called my [name]Jessica[/name] Rhino, instead of my last name and chased me around the quad at the back of the school. I never quite understood why, cause i dont and never did have a big nose- but that only lasted that one time. I mostly remember kids being teased due to weight or hygiene. I do however think that some names are more prone to teasing not becaause its a silly name, but because it can lead to another derogatory word or term within the name. However names have little to no effect on a child being teased- it is typically something that happens (they wet their pants or cry alot) that leads to them being bullied. This is never ok, bulling is always bad- but unforturnatly its things like that, that children cant really help, that make them be bullied. The only other time i can recall being bullied, was in the fourth grade cause i started my period-so everyone would laugh when someone used the word period when talking about me- and i mean i couldnt help it. But unfortunatly- thats typically how bullying is. And i agree witrha pervious poster- that the bully is typically either not raised to know its wrong (cause around the bullying age, which i think s typically middle school down) kids are learning that stuff, and either have a parent that doesnt care, a single parent that works alot and is not always home, or cannot handle a difficult child (behavior wise). And as another said, the parent could be unaware, some bullys get by a long time without getting in trouble.
But that said, bullying is unacceptable. 100%, i think all parents should play an active role in helping to end bullying behavior in the bully child and to help the bullied child know to go to an adult. Because nobody deserves to be called out and made fun of. ever.
[name]Norman[/name], [name]Tylor[/name], [name]Damon[/name]
all i can really remember.
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None of the kids at my school were picked on because of there names, they were picked on because of hygiene reasons, mostly… or clothes. Which is horrible really.
I just wanted to pop in and say that I agree with several previous posters in that I can’t remember any of my classmates ever being bullied because of their name.
Sad and sick as it is, everyone I ever knew who got bullied (including myself) was simply picked on for the most meaningless of reasons, whether it be physical appearance, personality, athletic ability, favorite video game/television show/book/whatever, academics, you name it and I promise you someone’s got teased for it. Personally, I always got made fun of because I was a nerdy comic book geek who idolized Spider-man and would rather study than cause a lick of trouble. I don’t think a name makes a bit of difference. Bullies will pick on anyone and everyone in an effort to make themselves feel better about themselves. NOTHING warrants being bullied, I don’t care how “weird” or “dumb” or “ugly” anyone thinks another person is. It’s disgusting.
I can’t remember anyone getting picked on b/c of their name specifically. But the kid that got picked on the most was named “[name]Eddie[/name]” - which is why the recent surge in “[name]Edward[/name]” popularity makes me cringe slightly!
No one at my school gets bullied because of their name.
Thanks, [name]James[/name]. That really needed to be said in this discussion. We don’t put people in jail in this society for being stolen from–we punish the thief! Think of bullying the same way; the bullies are the true “ugly ones”, not the victims!
Yogini, I think you are confused. None of the posters here said they condone bullying and etc. We are simply stating what we have noticed while in school growing up. These are the facts, and the members aren’t saying it is acceptable to bully at all. I think your last post was a bit judgmental.
Fat [name]Pat[/name]
Germy [name]Jeremy[/name]
Well, I remember there being a kid named [name]Alexander[/name] who was bullied by another kid named [name]Alexander[/name], so in a case like this, I don’t think names matter.
With some of the names babies receive these days, our children will not know from strange. Hashtag, Like, [name]Apple[/name], and [name]Moses[/name] will all have a place at the lunch room table.
I don’t remember anyone getting teased because of their name. People were mostly teased because of socio-economic status or for being smart or shy. I was picked on and had a Top 10 name.
Can’t think of a time anyone was bullied because of their name. The closest run-in I can think of was some innocent teasing about my last name in second grade, but it didn’t last long. If the original intent of this post was simply the names of people who were bullied/picked on, well, here’s what I remember:
[name]Natalie[/name] (well, this is me. Other than my last name, I was picked on for the way I dressed, walked, the fact I wear glasses… and some other stuff that’s a bit too personal.)
[name]Kayla[/name] (a friend of mine in 4th grade. Picked on because she was short)
[name]Emily[/name] (friend from 6th grade. Also picked on due to being short)
[name]Megan[/name] (Had several classmates with this name. [name]One[/name] in particular during 4th/5th grade was picked on for being quite tall and having thick eyebrows. Another was picked on because of her teeth.)
[name]Amanda[/name] (good friend of mine through my later grade school days. Picked on for being legally blind.)
[name]Theodore[/name] (Picked on for wearing scroungy clothes and dumpy appearance.)
[name]Brandon[/name] (Another one who was short.)
[name]Dakota[/name] (Picked on for perceived sexuality.)
I mostly say “picked on” because I never saw any full-on bullying, but I could be wrong. These kids may have seriously been affected by this.