The Most Annoying Person
The principle of the school was a complete idiot. Condescending, arrogant, oblivious. She had no idea. The worst scene for me was when she ended up telling off the kid who was being bullied and saying to him 'you are just like him by not shaking is hand'. Can't describe how angry it made me, what was she hoping to achieve? Did she really believe that sorted out the issue or that was the end of her responsibility just to get the kids to shake hands. She has a much bigger role to play and there are hundreds of things she could have done. Such a shame to see she actually doesn't care and hides behind the excuse 'I cant change a child's behaviour'. She had the power to change both victim and attackers behaviour, but saw it as too much of a hard task.
If this was one of my kids I would be telling them to get physical. Its what I did in school when I got picked on, if someone hits you or threatens you then you have to stand up for yourself. If you allow yourself to be picked on then people will continue to do it. Unfortunately that is how it works, for guys anyway. You don't really need to hit anyone, just get very loud, very angry and 90% of people will leave you alone. The other 10% will probably hit you, but you have to hit back. Never hit first was what I was taught, but as soon as someone hurts you physically you can defend yourself. These kids need to be taught how to deal with these situations a mixture of how to verbally defend yourself and physically defend yourself.
I completely agree that other students should help, but you cannot rely on other people to always be there to back you up.
Very good documentary.