General Article From friendship to fear: my journey through school bullying and its lasting impact

Topic Selected: Anti-Bullying Book Volume: 450

By Danielle Lobban

I was bullied in secondary school from Year 8 until halfway through Year 10, when my parents finally pulled me out because it was seriously affecting my physical and mental health.

Before that, I had the occasional issue on the playground, but the school handled things quickly, and they blew over. That all changed when a new girl, Claire*, joined our school. She’d been expelled from her previous school, unbeknownst to me at the time, for bullying other students, and my head...

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