You know, I acually disagree... You see, the movie is one of my favorite movies, I have never watched Degrassi (I've heard of it, but I heard it was pretty crappy), I found this movie to be very real. I come from a school that has metal detectors, the kids were very mean and judgemental towards each other, there were cliques that if you weren't a part of, you were a loser, or some that if you were part of, you were a loser. I myself was in one of the "religious" cliques, me being LDS... And even then, the "Jocks" would come over and push us down the stairs, or charge into us against the lockers.
I think the thing is is that alot of the bigger teens, like the Jocks, feel that to make themselves seem bigger and cooler, they have to "Haze" teens that are smaller, or less able to stand for themselves. It's been known forever, not a new thing.
Thats another thing. I hate when the Jack says "It's just hazing, it's something EVERY kid goes through, so it's not a big deal. It's happened for years, like a rite of passage." Just because it has happened for years, which it has, it doesn't make it right. Just because it's happened to you, two wrongs don't make a right. Alot of people look at it differently, but no matter what, it's wrong.
Also, to the kids that shoot up the schools, or kill themselves, or others because of it, you need to grow up. Let me tell you a story about my life, kids. When I was in 9th grade, the doctor gave me the wastebasket diagnosis of ADHD, which basically gave my mom a reason to shove pills down my throat to put me out of my misery. After that, I had lost my appetite, so I became tall and gangly. Now, when you're in high school and tall and gangly, it doesn't work out for you too well. I've been shoved into trash cans, slammed into lockers, there was this one guy who was talking on the phone with his girlfriend, and she bet him that he wouldn't punch me in the mouth, and he said, "how much?", and then he socked me in the mouth, then said, "Thanks... You just made me 10 bucks." Then, at my house, my mom and dad would fight, and beat the crap out of my brothers and I. But you know what, I am 23 now with a beautiful wife and baby boy, and I have never been in jail, never cut my wrist, never tried to kill myself, never tried to shoot up schools, nothing. So if anyone uses they excuse, "I was bullied, so I'm gonna shoot the people in the school", then you need to grow up and stop that.
http://www.wayodd.com/dumb-kid/v/4549/
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safex11
16 years ago
You obviously didnt understand the point of that movie. You were stronger. You had that something inside that kept you from going over the edge. Others don't. Telling them to "grow up and stop that?"
You just made the same excuse the main jock did. He got bullied but never shot anyone, why should you feel bad for someone who wants to?
BTW, apparently the dialog used in the final goodbyes in the car, plus the main kids video on bullying were snippets taken from writings and documents from recent school shootings.
"My, where did you get that lovely spatula?"
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CowboyDan44
16 years ago
Couldn't have said it better myuself safex11.
Having been born with only four fingers on my left hand I was mercilessly harassed in elementary school. The thing that I hated, and I mean HATED was that nobody ever noticed or cared when I got picked on but I got in trouble every time I retalliated. What was even worse was that my mom worked at the same elementary that I went to so she heard about it every time too, which would end up in me getting in trouble at school AND at home for retalliating while only maybe one or two of the people in the entirity of my elementary years that picked on me was ever caught. It's extremely unfortunate that it has taken the loss of lives for school officials to care about bullying; it has a major psychological impact on a lot of people that only those who have been bullied physically or verbally can really understand.
As you said, some people have something inside of them that stops them from going over the edge, but others don't. Unfortunately, few peolpe see that and fewer care, as evidenced by the way people who are bullied are expected and enccouraged to "get over it" and pretend that it never happened rather than to stand up for themselves in any way, shape, or form.
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fayette420
15 years ago
You know, I agree with everything you said up until the end. Maybe you just have that X the teacher mentioned in the movie. Just because many of us are strong enough to rise above what happened and make something of ourselves, there are many others who just can't. They don't have that piece of them that you do.
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