Mesa students create anti-bullying video, hope to spread message
MESA, AZ - Augusta Ranch Elementary fifth grader Isabela
Burkhead finds it hard at times to deal with bullying in the
classroom.  "I find myself being bullied and I want to
retaliate," said Burkhead.  She’s not alone.  "You just get mad
and you decide to be grumpy person,” added fellow fifth grader
Madelyn Fell.  Overcoming bullying at the school can be tough,
but a decision by their teacher to have students put together an
anti-bullying video at the end of the school year provided them
with hope.   Each student, holding up a sign or writing their
feelings on their arms, openly share with the public how it
feels to be bullied.  “We wanted to make something that was
dramatic in order to help people understand what bullying can
do,” said teacher Krista Krein.  The dramatic video ends with
everyone coming together, the bullies understanding the victims
and vice versa.  And for Fell, she says that working together
with students on the video made a