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KittyWampus

(55,894 posts) Tue Oct 14, 2014, 12:56 AM Oct 2014

Anyone Watch "Bully" Documentary On PBS? So Freaking Hard To Watch

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/bully/film.html

A couple of times I came close to turning it off it was so hard to watch.

Thankfully, there are kids wiling to stand up for those who are being picked on.

As for the other kids, whose parents are most likely never going to intervene, maybe schools have a way to try empathy training?

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Anyone Watch "Bully" Documentary On PBS? So Freaking Hard To Watch (Original Post) KittyWampus Oct 2014 OP

Yes. I was about to shut off the machine postulater Oct 2014 #1

I haven't watched it, and I'm not sure if I will. SheilaT Oct 2014 #2

postulater

(5,075 posts)

1. Yes. I was about to shut off the machine

Reply to KittyWampus (Original post)

Tue Oct 14, 2014, 01:19 AM

Oct 2014

and got sucked in.

Very well done.

It looked like it was a couple years old, 2011?

I wonder how those people are doing now.

SheilaT

(23,156 posts)

2. I haven't watched it, and I'm not sure if I will.

Reply to KittyWampus (Original post)

Tue Oct 14, 2014, 01:29 AM

Oct 2014

My older son was bullied in grade school, and trust me it was not the sort of terrible bullying that you hear about, or must be in this documentary. Nonetheless, it was painful and made his life sad.

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