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start the ball rolling

posted 11 years ago by marktayloruk
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Victims of bullying and insults have the right to defend themselves. The bullies should be told to desist.I'm a never-recovered exvictim who regrets not having attacked my first tormentor and all others until they got the point.Would Mitchell turn a blind eye and deaf ear if a pupil called him Baldy,for instance?
Georgia -13 GCSEs.Congratulations. She should have been allowed to go to the prom-as should everybody. Oh-what's all this petty fuss about doing your tie up?Ties are ridiculous, nobody should be conpelled to wear one,and as long as teachers keep picking on kids about things like that I just don't believe their claims to be overworked.

[–] YouAreNotTheGuy 11 years ago

An attack should be met in kind; Jac was wrong to escalate the situation to physical violence, and, as an obviously smart kid, he knew it and was rightly ashamed so I don't think anyone can hold it against him.

That said, the level of instinctive disgust I felt towards Georgia was palpable. I had to stop watching for a while to cool off. I was Jac in school, or at the very least, was a member of his social group. I wish I could be one of those people that can forgive their childhood aggressors, but my hatred for them and their modern descendants like Georgia has deepened with age, and that's depressing as hell because it means they're still getting under my skin.

How about how supportive his friends were though? Damn, that made me feel so good.

[–] marktayloruk 11 years ago

Re episode thre-having a go at a boy for being late because he was helping his friend on crutches is downright unfeeling. Did it really matter that much if he wasn't on time for registration?
Miss Uren-do people often take the ... Oh -Churchill didn't conform at school and failed.Errol Flynn,Oliver Reed,Frank Sinatra-all expelled. Need I say more?

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