Bully movie exposes the new cruel norms of a cyber-powered world
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“The kids are using the phones to be cruel to each other. Parents if you must issue your child a phone, load it with nannyware to monitor their texts.” Valinda Frost, instructor at Mira Loma High School
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SACRAMENTO -- Sheila Self, Bullying Prevention Specialist of the Sacramento City Unified School District, addressed the audience after viewing the Sacramento screening of the Bully movie last night at the Tower Theatre on Broadway.
“It is unbelievable how cruel society has become,” Self said, “Make sure you are communicating your values to your children.”
The movie Bully is a must see for parents and educators.
This documentary shows how so much of what it means to be bullied in today’s culture is beyond what we experienced as children.
Cyber-powered communications (texting/social media) make it very easy and eventually seem “normal” to wage harassment campaigns against individuals; it is “dog pile” multiplied by one thousand or more. It is a level of cruelty that if not
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