bullying

so basically today i've witnessed where bullying begins and where it evolves too.

there's this girl on my bus. let's call her Amy. Amy dyed her hair black last year. she goes to a different school. i saw her this morning and was shocked to find that she had chopped her hair off. it was super short. i thought it looked fine. there weren't a lot of people on the bus in the morning to see.

when we picked her up in the afternoon everyone was silent the second she walked on the bus.

she sat by herself a few seats in front of me.

amy probably doesn't care what people thing.
the second she got off of the bus, everyone was like "oh my god... that looks to gross."" honestly? i may have said something under my breath this morning out of surprise, but it isn't gross. so along with just how terrible teenagers can be behind people's backs, this is just another example of how people on my bus are so judgmental.

and then i saw the beginning of some bullying.

i help out with the elementary school band (4th graders.)

there are three boys who play clarinet, but there are also like 30 clarinet players. everyone other instrument has way less. (and while that's awesome, the instrumentation is not right...)

anyway, so one of the conductors was like "where are all of the trumpets?"

and the trumpet players says "all of the girls quit."

and the conductor goes "well maybe some clarinets could switch to trumpet"

and at this point the trumpets were screaming "no!"

and some clarinets were like "i wanna play trumpet!"

anyway, this one boy, we'll call him Jimmy, is pretty rambunctious. he turns to the trumpet playeres and says "i wanna play trumpet!"

and one of his supposed trumpet playing friends says "no, you're a girl!"

now, when you're this age, being called a girl when you're not is a mucho insult.

Jimmy just laughed it off, but he gets made fun of a lot.

i hope it doesn't escalate into fights and being pushed and shoved and hurt. because he's a good kid.

so yeah. bullying. bad.

also, i feel sort of bad for not saying something to all of these people.

just standing by doesn't help either.