“You have the right to choose,” they reportedly said.Ī representative of the Beijing Water Conservancy School told Sixth Tone that administrators have launched an investigation into the bullying. The teacher, however, is said to have told him that if he felt unable to make it through his next few years of school, he should leave school entirely. “I give up,” he wrote, claiming that the educator told him before that the bullies are “just children, his classmates of five years”. In one text message to a teacher, the victim asked how he should respond to the “harmful behaviour”. His teachers, meanwhile, were “blind” to the abuse he suffered, the teen said. Others would humiliate him by stripping him, taking his clothing when he showered at school.īullies would lob bruising words and insults at him, calling him “disgusting”, while some would even share footage of them abusing him to one another in a group chat. One pupil, he claimed, would threaten to fight him every day. The litany of abuse the pupil suffered ranged from students forcing him to masturbate while they filmed him to stealing his personal belongings.
“The saddest thing is that you just want me to tolerate it.”Īs a result of the bullying, he was diagnosed with depression in February this year. “Is it ridiculous?” the student wrote in one message to an educator. Instead, they implored him to be more “tolerant” of his bullies or drop out altogether, according to local outlet Sixth Tone,