How good do you think it must feel to confront a bully after they mentally and physically abused you as a child? You might want to ask Katy, Texas businessman Greg Barrett.
He decided to attend a Katy ISD school district meeting to talk about his experience being bullied and to confront his alleged bully.
“I was bullied. Unbelievably bullied,” Barrett said. “I started out and I had teachers that bullied me, I had kids that bullied me, even the coaches. I had nobody to turn to.”
Barrett revealed that his legal name is actually Greg Gay, but he was forced to change it after being targeted by bullies. Unfortunately, the bullying escalated and turned violent.
Barrett says that a group of students assaulted him and shoved his head in the urinal
“One day at lunch, I had my head shoved in a urinal where it busted my lip. I laid on the ground in a fetal position as the kids kicked me. I got up, rinsed my face off, I walked out of the lunchroom, walked straight to the principal’s office, and he told me that these kids would grow up someday,” Barrett said during the meeting. “They won’t always be like this. But yet, here I am, covered in urine from lying on the ground under the urinal. And they sent me home.”
Barrett was so emotionally traumatized that he contemplated suicide.
“Well, I went home and I got the .45 out of my father’s drawer and put it in my mouth,” Barrett said. “Because at this point I had nobody — nobody in the school system — to help me. Is that the way this is going to be?”
Then he dropped a huge bomb on everyone.
“Lance, you were the one that shoved my head in the urinal,” he said.
At this point, Barrett throws his hands up in the air and walks away from the podium. A small laugh could be heard.
“Want to debate?” Barrett yelled from the back of the room. “Because I got witnesses that were there when it happened.”
The Lance he is referring to is Katy ISD Superintendent Lance Hindt.
Hindt says that his former classmate’s claim “simply isn’t true” though he did admit that “I am not a perfect person.”
“As superintendent in three school districts in Texas, I have always tried to create an environment where every student is safe — physically and emotionally. But when an individual impugns my character and reputation as the instigator of those actions, I am disappointed because it simply is not true,” Hindt said in a written statement. “I do not suggest that Mr. Barrett was not bullied, only that I was not part of it. Bullying is wrong. Period. It was then and it is today.”
Barrett said he was upset that Hindt didn’t have the decency to tell the truth.
“That really ticked me off,” he told Chron. “When he laughed, I thought, ‘Maybe this man hasn’t changed.'”
Barrett said he decided to come forward after hearing other reports about bullying in the school district and that his intention wasn’t to get Hindt fired.
“People change. They do stupid stuff when they’re young,” Barrett said. “I just want him to acknowledge it, say he’s sorry and make some changes so this doesn’t continue to happen.”
You can watch Barrett confront his alleged bully in the video below.
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