school help: what would you do? - Help.com

If you are a kid there probably isn’t much you can do… because the adults won’t listen to you. Even if your friend told you everything they probably wouldn’t listen to you, one because they don’t believe children have anything serious to talk about, and two because they are afraid to get involved in things. You know in a big city if a man is laying bleeding on the side walk how many people will just walk by? All because they don’t want to get involved? That’s pretty much what’s going on with your hurt friend if the teachers know something is up and aren’t doing anything about it.

yer I’m a Kid, why are they afraid to get involved, I suppose well its pretty hard to miss she comes in with cuts and bruises all the time, especailly to her face. if the teachers arent doing anything can I do something??

I’m not sure what the psychology is behind the fact that people can pass by a bleeding man on the streets, all I know is that they are afraid. They don’t want that thing in their lives, so they pretend it isn’t there.

As a kid who is seeing another kid get abused… all I know of that you can do is talk to the adults in your life. Your parents, teachers, the principal.. who ever is around. In a sea of fear, there are always those who do the right thing. And if no one listens to you… I’m not sure there is much you can do. Until you become an adult yourself (a very hard transition) your power to intervene into these kinds of serious situations is quite limited I think.

Tell every adult you possibly can. Not only is this abuse affecting your friend now, it will traumatize her more every day that it is allowed to go on. That means severe depression and suicidal tendencies. This is coming from someone who saw that a good friend was being abused and did nothing out of fear. At the age of 22, he took his own life, self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. If you don’t want to see your friend suffer the same fate, please get her help as soon as you can.