So I started watching the documentary Bully on netflix and I'm not sure if I can finish it. It is so raw and so real, that I can physically feel my heart hurting. It is making me so incredibly mad, already, that schools do nothing about this. Every single day children are getting bullied and their parents don't even know. Teachers hear and don't even try and stop it. What's worse is the fact that nowadays teachers are even afraid of saying something for fear that the kid is going to go home to their parents and get in trouble. Yeah, teachers are getting bullied by parents because they're trying to help another student. It's a vicious cycle and it's only getting worse.
I've only gotten a half an hour into an hour and forty minute video and I'm in tears. It is just astonishing how children can be so cruel to their peers, and there is nothing we, as a nation, can do to prevent it. Honestly, I look at my own family--my aunt and uncle are proof of how not to parent. The older son is the jock, while the youngest is never good enough but the sweetest kid--or so I thought. When he was younger the school thought he had a learning disability but his parents refused to let them test him. They refused to believe the fact that their son could possibly be different. He grew up being the nicest kid, but lately what I've heard him talk about and what he's posted on instagram and other social networking sights, it makes me worried that he's just following in his brother's footsteps.
I worry about what makes a child bully someone? What stops someone from coming forward about what is happening in our schools? Why are teachers turning a blind eye? It is all complete bullshit. Honestly, nothing is going to change until you start teaching your children how to be decent fucking human beings. Respect other people. How hard is that? Don't judge someone based on physical or non-physical attributes. Why is that so difficult for people to comprehend?
I'm so furious right now, and I haven't even finished the movie. I think I need to go to bed because it's just making me angrier, but I'm not sure I can sleep right now; there are way too many thoughts in my head about the millions of kids who are probably contemplating suicide right now. It is crazy what this world is coming to, and I'm not entirely sure I want to live here anymore. I honestly am starting to think that moving to another country, where gender roles aren't a huge part of society and people actually respect each other, is a good idea.
How do you prevent bullying? As of right now, you can't, and that is absolutely terrifying.
