Article May 26, 2014 Issue

Being brave

Shaya

I go to school in Australia. I have a nice school where people are usually kind. But there was a boy in my class who wasn’t being treated very well. The kids in the class were teasing him about his race and culture. Nobody wanted to be with him, and he often played alone at lunch time.

I didn’t like how he was being bullied. We have many different cultures at our school, and I wanted everyone to be respected and treated nicely. I thought how he must hate coming to school each day. I told my mom and dad, and they said we should never stand by and let someone be bullied and not even try to do something. I decided to do a speech. That night I wrote down all my ideas.

When I thought of giving the speech, I felt very nervous. My dad and I spoke about Moses in the Bible. He needed to lead a whole nation of people, and he was really nervous. But God gave him the courage and the words he needed.

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