Another Rage

Let me start by saying that what we need is another original, mindblowing television program. I'm so sick of crime dramas, whether it's a Law and/or Order or NCSI Miami: Criminal Bones Mentalist. Someone needs to approach a major network with something strange and out-there and maybe it will reel me back into watching television. Another thing there seems to be lot of are shows about American high schools. It seems school kids these days spend their time either having sex or singing, which leads me into today's topic - why America is the world's worst fucking place to be educated.

The TV is sugar coating everything, and by that I mean they like to tell their audience how exciting school is, while subtly sweeping under the table things like bullying, bad teaching and whatever other problems there are. And before you say anything, I know this stuff happens here and in other countries besides the USA. I know America has some great schools. I know there probably is a lot of sex and singing and dancing. But after reading about how kids kill themselves because they're targeted by bullies from the first day of school and eventually have had enough, or how the parents try to approach their son/daughter's school about the problem only to be shrugged at and told "shit happens", I'm starting to wonder whether I've stumbled back in time to Sparta or some place where they used to throw babies off cliffs if they were born with defects. Except outside of that terrible movie with Carmen Elektra I'm pretty sure Spartans didn't have the internet, so the example is bad.

But what I'm saying is that even with its weird rules and old-fashioned atmosphere, my school still realised you're not supposed to sit back and let kids tear each other apart because that's how life works. Teachers were required to step in if they saw something horrible going on in the schoolyard. Certain American schools seem to think bullying is a natural part of life. But in life there are things called laws that govern people's behaviour. If I walked into work next week and slammed a co-worker's head repeatedly against the chip station, chances are there would probably be consequences, or at the very least an intervention from the manager, or the shopping centre security staff, or the police.
Children don't have to get away with harming other children because that's just how the world is and far be it for the adults to step in and stop it.

I'm all worked up because I was bored and stumbled on the trailer for that documentary Bully. I was like, what is this? A child committed suicide because of bullying? Has it really come to this or was he just very very sensitive to teasing? So I looked him up and read some news stories about how he hanged himself because he was bullied for years until his parents said he was just a "shell" of his former self, and how the next day the bullies were supposedly walking around school, mocking his death by wearing nooses around their necks while the teachers probably stood by chortling and muttering "boys will be boys..." It just seems a little bit wrong to me. 

Anyway I'm writing this novel of a blog post because I'm supposed to be patching up that monologue I talked about a couple of weeks ago so it can be read to a room full of artsy people on Performance Night. But get this - we're not actually being marked on performance, we're being marked on the quality of the written stuff. So really it should be called Reading Night because that's all we'll be doing. What really blows is that there won't be any alcohol. I'm going to have to find a way to do this sober. Oh woe is me. But I can't really complain, can I, because I'm not a bully victim. If you are, take your house/car key (like I was saying before with muggers) and jam it between their eye and its socket. The next step is to use the key as a sort of lever... well you get the idea. Just fuck up his/her day is what I'm saying. But to be fair that's a last resort, to be used if the primary tactic doesn't work. The primary tactic is to make yourself unbullyable. It's hard but some people are just too boring to bully. If you can be one of those people then you might have a chance.