Good for him, but what's up with the title? Seems an odd title.

As a kid I got bullied, but it sounds like this kid has it worse. One thing that really struck me the first time I saw an "it gets better" PSA was that those kinds of spots can apply to bullied kids in addition to LGBT kids. Glad to see something like the evolution of that.

To me, it seems like we've got something institutionally wrong with schools that allows bullying to be as prevalent as it is. I say that because in my experience and that of most other people I know that were bullied, things are at their worst from roughly middle school to early-mid high school (say, 12 to 17 years old). Usually the senior year is noticeably better than those before it, and then the experience at college is like the difference between night and day. Obviously increasing maturity levels are responsible for some of that, but not all.

To me, administrators and teachers need to take this a lot more seriously. Good for this kid for getting in the school board's face and making them feel uncomfortable, because the status quo clearly doesn't make things any better.

Oh, and a hearty /second to Yogi's comment about the title.

My fix if I were an adult on the school system would be to perhaps sponsor a support group-type action-awareness campaign to empower the bullied kids through a kind of humiliation campaign against the most egregious of offenders and perpetrators.

Kung Fu instruction from a 'real' kung fu master for a solid year to lay down the foundation for defense as well...Maybe some Krav Maga?? Teach em the cockpuncher defense and have a team of girls protect the smaller, less-confident boys??
I'd get real creative..

Humiliate the alpha in the herd and they tend to slink the fuck off and take their friends with em...

I dealt with douchebags by confusing the shit out of them-In the 10th grade I made great friends with the junior-varsity cheerleaders in my remedial math class, and sat at the cheerleader table at lunch, pissed some jocks off for a while until I started telling them what their GF's were talking about them....then the started coming to me for advice...Helps when you can get them weed as well

Great vid, but this video title is completely judgmental and inappropriate.

Title seems sarcastic.

I would have used "He could have went all Columbine on their asses."

...but I'm often a conscienceless asshole.

I think the problem is the culture of competition. If you make everything a contest and add to that questionable rolemodels you quickly end up with young people getting awfully good at rationalising such behaviours. Kicking the weak looser is so much easier if you are the popular tough guy with a need to show dominance. Yoiu know, be a man and take what's yours, you can do it!
And let's not forget that his two moms make him automatically a target for quite a lot of kids as well.

Sounds like this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLONAadDT3Q

Yeah the title is a bit a-hole. I'd bet at least some of the kid's teachers know, they just don't want to get involved. It's not the kids fault he's being bullied, it he moved to a different school, the bullies would just find someone else to pick on.

The title is the one that it had when I found it.
I suppose it could be changed...?
Changing it from: "He Could Have Told His Teacher Or His Principal."
to: "Boy Stands up at city Council on Bullying"

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