Dear Agony Aunt

Please can you help-I don't know what to do. I go

to secondary school but I hate it and I don't want to

go. Every day I wake up and feel sick at the thought

of what the day will bring. The problem is that the

people in my class bully me. They call me names

and sometimes they push me. I've had my dinner

money stolen and last week someone took my

homework and put their name on it. I then got a

detention for not doing it!! I don't understand why

they are being so horrible and I really want it to

stop. Please please help

From: Sarah in Leeds

An advice column is a column in a question and answer format. Typically, a (usually

anonymous) reader writes to the media outlet with a problem in the form of a question,
and the media outlet provides an answer or response.
The responses are written by an advice columnist (colloquially known in British English
as an agony aunt, or agony uncle if the columnist is male). An advice columnist is
someone who gives advice to people who send in problems to the media outlet. The
image presented was originally of an older woman dispensing comforting advice and
maternal wisdom, hence the name "aunt".