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Article: The trouble with bullies: bullying can leave lasting scars. What should you do when you see a bully?(Teen Scene)
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- Junior Scholastic
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- September 1, 2008
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Morgan Simone knows a lot about bullying--more than she'd like to. Her troubles began in first grade, but got a lot worse in middle school. "They teased me because I was in gifted classes," Morgan recalls, "because I had glasses, because I wore braces, because I didn't drink or do drugs, because I had a squeaky voice, because I was shy--everything that made up me.
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"Words," adds the 16-year-old from Williams-town, New Jersey, "cannot describe how painful it was."
Morgan's experience is all too common. According to the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, as many as half of all students are bullied at some ...