Bully: a documentary

   It was frustrating watching the documentary "Bully" because it was sad to see those kids going through so much. I see bullying a lot different now after watching the film because you never know what exactly someone may be going through and one thing can lead to another and the bullying can make someone take their own life. I was really shocked at some of the things that the children went through on a daily basis. Children are going to school to learn and who knows if they can even focus on their academics because of the bullying. I wasn't very aware of any bullying in elementary, middle school, or high school because our school district had a strict policy on bullying. Everyone knew that if you were to bully someone in school or even out of school that disciplinary actions were going to be taken. On the districts website it tells everyone how many bullying offences have happened each year within each of the schools in the district.
   If my son were to come home and complained about someone bullying him on the bus I would be pretty upset about it. I would tell him to stick up for himself and not let people do those things to him but I would also go to the school about the situation and maybe even the bus driver. I would have no tolerance for the bullying so I would continue to go to the school until the situation was under control. If the assistant principle were to act the way she did in the film towards my child I may have a few choice words for her. The assistant principal seemed to get an attitude with Alex when he told her that she had done nothing about the situation the first time he told her he had been bullied. That is no way to act as an assistant principal and by saying, "well he didn't sit on your head again did he?" is not very reassuring to the child. There are more appropriate ways the assistant principal could have went about the situation but she chose to act in a way that seemed she didn't care and that if anyone were to bully Alex they would get a not put in their chart which in my opinion is not that scary. I remember in my high school if you even thought about bullying another student then you would get worse discipline than the children in the film.
   I have never experienced hash forms of bullying but I have experienced it. I don't think that the people saying the things realized that it was bullying but it was. I would get made fun of for my glasses making my eyes look big. Like hello, I cannot help that! It's okay to be different than everyone else and kids these days need to realize that people are different and it is not okay to bully someone because of that. This documentary was very sad and it hurts to see people get bullied.