Watched this in school

I actually watched this in eighth grade to learn about anti-bullying, since my teacher loved it so much. I'd never heard of it, so upon watching about a third, I looked it up here and saw it was on the bottom 100. I actually thought it was a pretty nice film, and the story was cool. It looked like the kind of dramatic life-lesson TV movie they show on HBO. I understand why you hate it though. I just wanted to share my thoughts. Also, I'm a Jew.

P.S. We started our holocaust unit that same year, coincidentally.