It never made any sense. A movie where children kill each other gets a PG-13 rating, a documentary about children getting bullied gets rated R. So I’m glad to see that Bully has been reclassified. I’m happy that kids are going to be able to see it, and that the
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Montreal Simon: Mitchell Wilson and the War on Bullying
His name was Mitchell Wilson. He suffered from muscular dystrophy. But that didn’t save him from being savagely bullied. When he learned he would have to testify in court against his alleged attacker, it was too much for the gentle boy, and he killed himself. But now his words will
Continue readingMontreal Simon: If You Want to Know What Bullying Feels Like…
You can read this story. What world is this that playgrounds have become killing grounds? The murder of hope, love, creativity, passion, ingenuity, individually. This goes unpunished. Unnoticed. Why? When these die, our very person dies. If there’s one thing I hate, it’s when people don’t care about bullying. I
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Has the War on Bullying Finally Begun?
It’s taken a lot of dead Canadian kids. Kids like Marjorie Raymond. “I have a hard time leaving this world,” she wrote her suicide letter, “but I think it will be for a better world.” But it looks as if the Great War on Bullying has finally begun. McGuinty said school
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Bully Awareness Week and the Dead Kids
It’s Bully Awareness Week, and for kids in Canada it couldn’t have come at a better time. After a horrifying streak of bullying related suicides. Mitchell Wilson, bullied to death because he had muscular dystrophy. The bullying that her grandson suffered at his school, Westcreek Public School in Pickering, led the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Have You Ever Seen a Gay Kid Being Attacked?
Just for being gay. Oh well. Now you can…Wasn’t that brutal? And isn’t this horrible?The teenager’s mother adds that no one did anything — everyone stood around and watched. Only one person took any action — which was to record this vid…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Canada and the Bully Nation
I don’t know why Canada is such a bully nation. What I do know is that it infects our country like syphilis, from our Parliament, to our hockey rinks, to our schools.A 15-year-old hockey player in Manitoba was forced to parade around the dressing room …
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Jamey Rodemeyer, the Bullies, and Lady Gaga
The other night I wrote about the tragic story of Jamey Rodemeyer, the 14-year-old boy from Buffalo, New York, who was bullied to death for being gay.So I’m glad to see that the bullies may be held accountable.Police are looking to bring crim…
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