Seriously. They took the whole thing a little bit too hard. Marion made everything sound a lot worse and they just followed her lead. They became really mean towards Harriet and practically became bullies. The paint incident was the worst. And the whole class against one girl?
Pretty vicious for a bunch of kids.
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Seriously. They took the whole thing a little bit too hard. Marion made everything sound a lot worse and they just followed her lead. They became really mean towards Harriet and practically became bullies. The paint incident was the worst. And the whole class against one girl?
Pretty vicious for a bunch of kids.
Where did you go to school, Guantanamo?
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I watched this last night, and I agree. However, they definitely didn't sugar coat things for this film. Some of the humor is more mature than you'd expect in a Nick movie, and watching it today, then looking at Nick today, you can see how badly things went downhill. This is a great movie, because although some of the ideas are corny ('That is why, I am a spy'), that can easily be explained by childhood hobbies and obsessions, and after watching it I didn't question the realism of it at all. Something like this COULD happen to 6th graders, and they didn't dumb things down, or overly exaggerate.
shareRight. But the whole class against Harriet. 1st of all it was Harriet's fault for dropping her notebook and she didn't pick it up immediatly and so as Marion's fault 4 reading her ntbk.
Carissa
I don't think Harriet noticed when she dropped her notebook. At the end of the game scene when she, Janie, & Sport all knocked down eachother's books and then picked them up Harriet was surprised to not see her notebook anywhere. Earlier in the scene Harriet was bumped into and her notebook was the only book she dropped and she had so many other books that she didn't notice it was gone.
Those kids were vicious, but not any more so than the average 6th grade class. When I was in 6th grade there was a girl in our class who was best friends with a really popular girl. She was shy, but popular by association to her best friend. They had a falling out over something trivial (I can't remember what) and the whole team (our school broke us smart kids into our own "team" of classes apart from other 6th graders) turned their backs on the shy girl. I hadn't known her at all before that because she rarely talked so after the popular girl made this girl's life miserable for a week or 2 several of us other girls befriended the shy girl and it took a long time, but by the end of the year she wasn't picked on anymore. For a while, though, a lot of people made her life at school unbearable. It helped that several of us other popular girls made friends with the shy girl. We stayed friends with the mean popular girl, too. If we hadn't stepped in that poor shy girl would have had the most Hellish school year ever and she was too nice to deserve that. Some of what she went through at the beginning of the year was very similar to how Marion and the other kids treated Harriet. It's awful, but that's how kids are.
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I didn't think it was unrealistic at all. In elementary school, I had similar experiences with my best friends banding together against me and doing horrible things to me, and me getting them back, so I can definitely relate. Kids can be cruel beyond limits.
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How mature do you expect them to handle it? They're six graders.
Well I don't know. Like what they say, kids can be vicious.
Carissa
You see how students treat other students in films like Heathers and Jawbreaker. We're not all in a happy-go-lucky world where we are doing Kidsongs videos all the time. Most of us are on the outside like Carrie.
If Marion was a character from The Wizard Of Oz she would be The Wicked Bitch Of The West.
Welcome to the world of middle schoolers. They're viscious. My nephew gets picked on. I tell him he has to suck it up for now til he gets to highschoolers. Kids can be really cruel.
That aint no etch-a-sketch. This is one doodle that can't be undid.
Did Harriet not deserve it though? "Janie really creeps me out." "Sport is so poor..." "If I was the boy with the purple socks, I'd hang myself."
shareI tell him he has to suck it up for now til he gets to highschoolers.
That's true.
Carissa
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kids learn to be vicious at school, i find. it wasn't extraordinary how they treated her
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Those kids were vicious to her! All Harriet did was write about how she saw the world. I was like Harriet at school. I was bullied and I felt like all the kids were against me because of my Asperger's syndrome. I'm not saying Harriet had Asperger's, but some of the kids at school were absolutely savage to me verbally! But I got over it and Harriet did, too :)
I felt so sorry for Harriet when Rachel and Marion poured paint on her. I just wanted to pour paint on them and ask them to leave her alone.