I haven't mentioned Tolerance Club in a while-- October is National Bullying Awareness Month, and so that fits in with our mission quite well. Today we showed the kids a Sesame Street clip where Big Bird gets an invitation to join the "Good Bird Club" and is all excited until the mean pigeon, blue jay and robin reject him, at first because his feet are too big.
We had a little technical difficulty streaming the video on our WiFi network, and so to fill the time while it loaded, I asked the kids to guess what might happen. "He's going to try and change his feet," one confidently predicted.
"And that won't be enough for those birds," another added. "They're going to make him keep on changing."
I was super-impressed by their accuracy. "Have you guys seen this before?" I asked.
"No!" they answered (and they totally would have said "duh," if they didn't just know it was rude). "That's what always happens with bullies."
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