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Old 05-03-2012, 04:44 PM   #1
monster
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"Bully" Movie/Documentary

Saw it today. Has anyone else seen it or been following it's release? An Ann Arbor student campaigned successfully for it to be rate PG13 rather than R. So we took our 7th and 8th grade. Is it only a big deal here, or have you all heard about it? What do you think about it? And about the people featured in it? Do you think it could be the turning point for stopping bullying in school?

As I see it the only real way to stop/significantly reduce bullying is to make it uncool. They may be on to somethig here, but only if all kids in the right age group see this and stuff like this. Sadly, I suspect they won't.

My kids go to public school, but it's an alternate magnet program, and -particularly in the middle-school grades- we often end up with (as well as the hippy kids who go there from the get-go) the bullied from other schools, and sometimes the kicked out bullies too. The bullies don't last long if they don't change their ways -our kids are more like family than classmates and they don't take well to newcomers attacking their own or other newcomers. The bullied tend to shine, eventually.

Of course we do have some problems, no school is currently without, but they tend not to be ongoing because it is "uncool" in our school culture and the kids tend to tattle on rather than ignore it.

I got to thinking about this when I asked my 13yo son what was the reaction to the movie and he said the kids all thought "the bullied kids should just come to our school".

This makes me happy for us, but so sad otherwise.
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