Bully Documentary Analysis

I think the political agenda in the documentary “Bully” was to show that suicide is an issue here in the United States. Kids are being bullied left and right and then getting punished if they choose to speak out about it, which probably has to do with why so many children who are bullied don’t speak up. Adults are deciding they should give the punishment to both kids because they claim they don’t know whose fault it was. A good example would be the kid who was bullied and called Fish Lips in the documentary. He had issues on the school bus, which is a really common area for bullying to take place. He was being picked on, and the first time he went to an authority figure(I believe it was the assistant principal) nothing had been done. Then there is the scene where his parents come in about the same issue because nothing had been done about this. They say there is nothing they can do, which is unbelievable because if that were there child being picked on the situation would not be the same. Bullying becomes political because it needs to be acknowledged, and it needs to be stopped. Bullying is an issue as a whole in the United States and it is awful for everyone who has to deal

The issues with being LGBT can be tough to deal with, but they can be especially tough if you live somewhere being LGBT is extremely frowned upon. In the article “Can a Boy Wear a Skirt to School?” by Jan Hoffman, it is said that what location and what school affects how well these kids do. In Los Angeles a male won prom queen, unlike in Mississippi where a student's picture wasn't put in the yearbook because she was wearing a tuxedo in it. Both of these people are struggling to fit in, people are definitely more understanding now than in the past, but we still have a long way to go. If other people don't always feel they have high value they think there is something wrong with them, so they start to feel that way about