What are we coming to when almost on a weekly basis more schoolyard bashings are showing up? I was absolutely shocked and disgusted to hear about the 15-year-old girl from Queensland who was bashed by three other teenage girls, while bystanders filmed it on their mobiles. The year 11 student was confronted on her way home from school and bashed repeatedly in the face and thrown onto the road. A crowd formed, some of whom started filming it. Her attackers than warned her to 'get her coffin ready' if she told anyone what happened and left her, bloody and bruised with a broken nose. The police have charged one seventeen year old girl with assault and warned more arrests were to follow.

And yet, this isn't unusual in the least. In fact, it become part of the norm in news headlines. A culture of bullying, and more recently cyberbullying, has been in schools and teens for, well, ever. With new advances in technology, it, unfortunately, creates a new forum for people to be harrassed and tormented. While I've never seen or experienced anything as disgusting as this, everyone, and I mean everyone, has seen, and maybe done, some kind of bullying. It's just those little things that you don't really think much of but that can have a huge effect on people, like posting a bad photo or making a mean comment. You just don't know what will tip people over the edge. So please, please, please, make sure you think before you act, especially online where the entire world can see it, and just think what effect something might have on everyone involved. In saying that, if there's anything that offends you in anyway on this blog, please just comment it and I'll modify or take it off straight away. And if you have any problems, please call the Youth Helpline on 1800 55 1800.

I'm sorry to have such a serious blog, but rest assured tomorrow it will be back to Twilight and bad haircuts tomorrow.

xx Miss Moi

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