TEEN TRUTH: VOICES – DARKNESS
April 2nd, 2010
Darkness
by: Westley Copeland, TEEN TRUTH Tribe Member
Darkness resides where the sun does not reach
Darkness resides even in those who preach
Blinding creatures that need light to seek
Seeking searching something shall never find
Darkness resides deep in ones mind
Seeking searching in the light of day
So when darkness comes do not stray
Fear is nothing to a castaway
So do not be swayed
Cast the mask aside
Man has nothing they can hide
Close your eyes in such a way
Allow what you seek to come into reach
Once in reach you may open your eyes
Now start searching in darkness inside
Affecting each ...
Funeral services were to be held Thursday for a Texas teenager who committed suicide, apparently after being bullied by classmates.
Jon Carmichael, 13, of Joshua, took his own life Sunday, reports CBS News Correspondent Don Teague.
The eighth-grader had apparently been teased and bullied because of his small size, Teague says.
Classmate Chris Montelongo admits he picked on Carmichael, but insists he wasn't alone. "I wasn't the only one," Montelongo says. "I can guarantee you it was most of the school who messed with Jon."
Montelongo adds that, despite the teasing, he considered Carmichael a ...
Once again, the nation is outraged that school bullying has claimed another victim. As news spread about the indictment of nine teens who are accused of relentlessly bullying 15-year-old Phoebe Prince to suicide this year, parents everywhere asked: "How could this have happened? Where were the adults?"
I couldn't help but wonder why it always takes a tragedy to get the world's attention. The suffering of millions of students all across America, some of whom are being bullied as badly as Phoebe and who have been crying out for help day after ...
TEEN TRUTH filmmaking team, Erahm Christopher and JC Pohl, recommend the following film because it made them think.
AMERICAN HISTORY X
Directed by: Tony Kaye
Written by: David McKenna
Released in 1998, this gritty drama made us THINK about how easily hatred can be inherited from family members and how difficult it can be to reverse a destructive state of mind. When Derek returns from prison he discovers his brother is caught in the same influences that landed him in prison and must risk his life to save him. In the end, it made us ...
TAMPA - Eighth-grader Caroline Koch wants to change her school's image.
"I just don't think it's fair to write us all off as bad kids," the Walker Middle student said today before a schoolwide anti-bullying presentation to classmates. "People make mistakes.''
She's talking about last year's incident in which four students were arrested and charged with sexual assault after another student told authorities he was attacked in the boys' locker room.
It was a shocking case that took students, administrators and parents by surprise as they learned how serious bullying had become, not just ...
Jaime Escalante, the math teacher portrayed in the 1988 film "Stand and Deliver," died Tuesday after a battle with cancer, according to the actor who played him.
Escalante, 79, was surrounded by his wife, children and grandchildren when he died at his home in Roseville, California, said Edward James Olmos.
Olmos visited Escalante's bedside Monday night, he said.
"We lost one of the true giants of education and inspiration in this country," Olmos said. "He really made us understand that it didn't matter what color, race, creed or ethnicity any of us are."
Olmos disclosed ...
"We have the right to freedom of speech; we have the right to say what we want with out people getting on our backs."
This was said by a high school senior, when the Spread the Word to End the Word campaign came to his school. Special Olympics joined with a coalition of other supporters and started the Spread the Word to End the Word campaign to educate youth about the derogatory misuse of the word "retard". Even though there are thousands of pledges to stop the R-word, there are just as ...