Monday, October 25, 2010

Bully and Bullied Team For Teen Talks

If there were ever a story that at least partially restored my faith in humankind, it is this one. 

Imagine being a 13 year old boy who is being bullied at school for being gay.  You seek help from your mother and instead you get tossed out of the house and end up living in the streets at 14.  Then years later, after turning your life around you decide you need to speak to teenagers about the repercussions of bullying.  It's a good cause and you find you have an ally who wants to help, a former skinhead and bully, the same one who had even tried to kill you as a teen!

This is not the stuff of made-for-TV moves but the real life story of Matt Boger, who at 13 was kicked out of his home and Tim Zaal, the skinhead who had been on e of his attackers.  Both, now in their 40's have teamed up to work with at risk kids in schools.  Read it and get inspired...and then do something good.

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