3 Personal Stories

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Alexa Richardson* checks her phone to see if any new notifications come through. Instead, she finds a thread from a boy she thinks is her friend, only to find a video of him defacing her property and mocking her religion. Immediately, she hears loud banging and shouts from the same boy and his friends at her door saying, “Open up, you Jew!”

Now a senior at Pinnacle High School, Richardson initially thought of herself as the victim of a harmless prank. The stunts first began during her sophomore year, when several senior boys began ding-dong-ditching her house every night. Since Alexa and her sister knew these boys personally, she paid little attention, thinking of the incidents as jokes. Then, the stunts progressed into aggressive bullying. Rather than just