I'm 16 and live in NYC. It so sad that so many kids are being bullied and even sadder that kids are committing suicide. Today on twitter and facebook I saw how stomp out bullying said even though bullying hurts really bad, that NOTHING is that bad to want to take your life and I agree. I was bullied at school and online for 3 years. I was so awful I didn't want to live anymore. I went home crying every day and cried myself to sleep every night. And then I got it! If I killed myself, I wouldn't go to my prom, go to college, become a vet that I really want to do, get married and have my own kids. Killing myself would take away my entire future. So, I made new friends which was really hard. I laughed at my bullies which was even harder and guess what? It stopped. So if I killed myself, I wouldn't have known that it had stopped and I wouldn't have a future. So please if you're even thinking of killing yourself - even just a little - don't. You have a whole lifetime a head of you.

Madison, New York

Philip Garber Jr.  is 16 and taking two college classes. He is thoughtful, engaged and eager to contribute to class discussion — a dream student in many respects. But because his stutter is extreme, it takes him far longer than other students to ask a question or make a comment. So, as Richard Pérez-Peña writes in today’s New York Times, his history teacher has asked him not to.