On the Subject of Teachers & Bullying

In 7th grade, I moved to a new school. I was made fun of and sexually harassed very frequently. I had no friends at all and no one would help. I’m a very independent and stubborn person, but the harassment got so bad I actually did go to a teacher for help. She called me a liar and said, “No student here would ever do that!” I went to another teacher for help. She told me that it was because they were jealous of me, but she didn’t do anything to stop it, even when she’d witness the harassment. I eventually went to the counselor, but she told me I was a liar. Nothing else. My grades were awful. Teachers started calling me in to discuss how to make it better, or rather, that’s what they told me they’d be doing. Most of them just called me lazy, when they had witnessed me being bullied and harassed, but one teacher asked me if I was mentally challenged. I told her I didn’t think so, and she told me I should find out. Eventually, I left that school. I didn’t even stay half a semester. I don’t know what I could’ve done at that point, but I know from experience that sometimes teachers and counselors can’t help you.