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"Kids are fighting cyberbullies with kindness -- and an anti-bullying campaign called #iCANHELP is not only working, but it's growing by the thousands.Watch report:\u00A0Anti-bullying campaign fights back with kindness\"It kind of gets in your head when people say negative things about you,\" middle school student Sami Gibbs said.Gibbs became a victim of cyberbullying after she was voted class president.\"They wrote, 'You didn't deserve to be president, you are ugly, no one likes you,'\" Gibbs said. \"It made me feel bad,.\"But #iCANHELP stood up for her, Gibbs said.The campaign helps remove negative posts on social media, fast.It was created by leadership teacher Kim Karr after a fake Facebook page was posted about a teacher.A student showed her the negative and cruel comments and asked if something could be done.\"It made me think, this is a new trend, and we have to figure out a way to stop this,\" Karr said.The campaign is designed to empower students.\"Less than a month ago, someone made an Instagram page called 'Ugly Excelsior Students,'\" Karr said. \"Within 40 minutes, we got that shut down.\"At least 50 members of #iCANHELP post that they disagree with the negative comments in order to shut down the site, then they leave a positive comment instead.The concept is spreading to thousands of people. Students at Lincoln High School in Stockton made a compliment wall -- and some second graders are wearing the message on their shirts, learning that bullying is not acceptable.\"It was scary because in third grade I got bullied a lot,\" middle school student Morgan Rajala said.\"It never ceases to amaze me, every time I hear of a page being created with negativity and cruelty some people show against each other,\" parent Kelly Rajala said. \"It\u2019s become a whole other level of bullying, so (it's) good to know there is #iCANHELP, that could delete that.\"Karr has spread the message to more than 100 schools.\u00A0\u00A0"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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