I wrote today's post a couple of days ago and then on yesterday evening's news there was a piece on a new film on bullying, "Bully," that has been given an "R" rating that would prevent it being shown in schools. The R was for violence--the violence of bullying.
In the film a boy who was being bullied is followed and filmed, one presumes with hidden cameras, while he is hit and taunted repreatedly. The telling scene was when the parents went to a school administrator to tell her how hostile the school bus environment was for their son. The administrator: "I've been on that bus. They are little angels on that bus."
As far as I am concerned that kind of attitude and response should justify the woman being charged as an accomplice in a physical assault, and being jailed.
There's is a movement afoot to get the film re-rated, as PG-13 (still to restrictive in my opinion) so that it can be used as an anti-bullying tool in schools.
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