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St. Vincent High School: A Short Story

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About six months ago Sean was bullied in the locker room at St. Vincent High School. He was in the locker room minding his business when suddenly another teenager comes up and starts hitting Sean in the face knocking him over. Sean could taste the blood in his mouth. After only a few moments the other teenager stopped and ran away. When he got up his head was pounding and he couldn’t feel his bottom lip. He also had cuts all over his face. Thankfully the schools camera caught the whole thing live and the family decided to put the video online so that people could hear his story. Unknowingly something incredible happened. Rener Gracie saw this video and felt touched by it. Rener runs a Jui jitsu company that has gyms all around the country …show more content…

Sean was from a small town in Indiana so when he got to the airport he stood in disbelief. He was so nervous to train and meet Rener, but nonetheless excited to begin training. The gym was huge the size of a high school gym. There were rolling mats everywhere and padding on the walls also. All of the padding was blue and there was a special area for rolling along with one for teaching. More than 200 people showed up for a training session. The sight was unbelievable and the most shocking part about it was that everyone was like a huge family. Rather than everyone trying to hurt one another everyone gave handshakes before every roll and everyone gave one …show more content…

He had all of this training, but could never tell if it was going to work in a real life situation. When he finally went back to school no one knew that he had gone through this self defense training to make sure that he doesn’t get hurt again. The bully returned to school the same day he did. Nervous Sean avoids the bully and any confrontation that could happen. After school the bully sees Sean and continues to bully him even after he got in trouble the first time. Sean tries to back away and keep his distance. Although Sean has learned how to protect himself he was told not to unless it is absolutely necessary. The bully kept edging him on and eventually took it too far. The bully tried to tackle Sean to the ground. Sean was then filled with adrenaline. It all happened so fast that Sean didn’t know what happened. All of a sudden Sean let the bully go and got up to get away. As he was walking away he looked back and the bully was

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