Nasty Rumours at School

[Gibs960]

OK, so at school lately there have been really nasty rumours, involving me, and when the truth comes out saying who started the rumour, nothing ever happens, a girl that hated me said in year 4 that I was racist and one of my best mates was black, and everyone was saying don't go near Daniel, do you think people should get in trouble for spreading rumours, because after all it's bullying.

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[-:Undertaker:-]

Just laugh it off, if you sit there getting all annoyed and irritated over it denying it then people will think it to be true.

[alexxxxx]

OK, so at school lately there have been really nasty rumours, involving me, and when the truth comes out saying who started the rumour, nothing ever happens, a girl that hated me said in year 4 that I was racist and one of my best mates was black, and everyone was saying don't go near Daniel, do you think people should get in trouble for spreading rumours, because after all it's bullying.

whats the rumour?

[dirrty]

well if you wanted to, you could report it to the school, but i don't think theres much you can do besides laugh it off and act like it doesn't affect you. because at the end of the day, rumours are inevitable in schools, and theres not much you can do to stop spreading them besides wait until no one cares about it.

[Gibs960]

But when everyone's getting involved in the rumour including some of your friends it gets quite hurtful. P.S I love your sig

[Special]

It it's getting to the point of where you're losing friends, i suggest you tell a teacher you get along with, so more like a formal chat about it.

Or, you could approach things like I would and tell your friends, 'This is clearly lies, who do you belive? me or them'

[luce]

just start a worse one back about them JOKES

erm just laugh it off everything passes believe me and normally they're true. I remember i got caught with someone in year 9 and i denied it as a rumor so i won there LOL!

[ChickenFaces]

If someone mentions a rumor, it's best to just shrug it off, call it what it is, a rumor. Don't let it phase you or people will make it into something else and believe that it is true.

[dbgtz]

You could pin someone else up? Well not pin them but basically in my school and probably most others when one rumour starts it usually eventually gets disrupted by another but it's a bit different here, we base it off things already but obviously it gets milked. For example there was a rumour going around that someone on a trip pooed all other the bed, he did but it's obviously exaggerated. Now it's some guy who had it with another, but I don't know how that started because it's new. Basically just wait and it'll pass, that's my advice. Or if anyone speaks of it ignore it, change the subject or as said before, just laugh.

[Oleh]

I dunno what goes off a your school but we laugh and joke about racism, of my my best mates is chinese, we have a laugh all the time - Tell your supposed friends to brighten up and realise racism isnt serious unless your going to kick his head in (your not are you?)