Twelve-year-old Shelby Cady came home from her middle school one day to find a disturbing "present" left in her backpack.
"I was crying and screaming," the little girl recalled. “I thought it was one of my friends playing a trick on me.”
It turned out that it was not a friendly prank but the act of a bullying boy in her class. He took the frightening object and hid it in her backpack when she wasn't looking.
The little girl is new to that school district. Her family had moved from out of state last year, and since then the bullies have been making her life miserable. Shelby was born with a disability that slows her growth and has been openly mocked due to that fact. When her mother went to school officials to discuss the constant bullying, they treated it as if it didn't matter.
The boy was told to write an apology note, and he quickly did…a three-sentence-long apology that seemed meaningless to the mother and child, who cried in each other's arms once they realized how cruel humanity can truly be.
While it's important that our children learn that sometimes the world is a harsh place, this kind of maliciousness definitely needs to be discussed. While the school officials continue to ignore the mother's phone calls the bully rides home every day on the same bus as little Shelby.
Please watch the little girl's story below and let us know what you would do if that was your child being treated so harshly. Let us know in the comments below!
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