Respect for the Bully

Bullying and being bullied. Why does someone become a bully, on the playground or elsewhere? A group of children and their teacher learn that respect, and being respected, can be a factor in bullying, and that hurt can cause a person to act out in an unhealthy and unacceptable way.

Sample of script:

Kim, Marty, Sydney and Terry are sitting or standing around

Kim: So this guy he says, “What would you guys know, being in school all day?”

Marty: And the moral to that story would be . . .?

Kim: Well, duhhhh, means he figures us guys in school we don’t know square one about hard work.

Sydney: Whoa, back up the train there, did he ever meet up with Mrs. Brandt?

Kim: Now there is one teacher who knows how to stress a kid out.

Terry: Yeh, those questions on the science test were from weirdsville!

Sydney: Not one kid got a passing grade I bet!

Marty: Probably Gordie did.

Kim: Yeh, chances are that geeky Gordie for sure got like a hundred and two percent!

Terry: Man, did you ever in your whole life see a guy as geeky as Gordie?

Kim: Them silly lookin’ glasses.

Terry: Clothes like from the eighties!

Marty: Now that is just wrong, talking about Gordie that way!

Terry: You don’t think Gordie dresses geeky?

Marty: Oh for sure, geekiest goober I ever did see, just doesn’t seem right talking about him that way is all.

Tommy comes on stage with Morgan and Jamie, Tommy is glaring at others. As they come on stage the other actors move away, giving Tommy and his friends more room

Terry: Oh, oh!

Sydney: What’s wrong Terry?

Terry: Don’t turn around, don’t even blink . . . It’s Tough Tommy!

Marty: Tough Tommy, meanest kid in school, always bullying other kids.

Kim: You know, he doesn’t look so tough.

Terry: That’s what Billy Miller said too.

Sydney: Did you notice Billy had lost all his front teeth?

Terry: They aren’t exactly lost. Likely still can find them in the dirt in the school yard . . . where Tough Tommy Franklin’s knuckles put them.

Kim: Tommy Franklin, doesn’t he live with his dad in that little house just outside town?

Terry: The same. And that’s one place I am never going trick or treating at Halloween I tell yah!

Marty: My mom told me Tommy’s mom died, cancer I think, his dad took her death real hard.

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Bullying and being bullied. Why does someone become a bully, on the playground or elsewhere? A group of children and their teacher learn that respect, and being respected, can be a factor in bullying, and that hurt can cause a person to act out in an unhealthy and unacceptable way.

Sample of script:

Kim, Marty, Sydney and Terry are sitting or standing around

Kim: So this guy he says, “What would you guys know, being in school all day?”

Marty: And the moral to that story would be . . .?

Kim: Well, duhhhh, means he figures us guys in school we don’t know square one about hard work.

Sydney: Whoa, back up the train there, did he ever meet up with Mrs. Brandt?

Kim: Now there is one teacher who knows how to stress a kid out.

Terry: Yeh, those questions on the science test were from weirdsville!

Sydney: Not one kid got a passing grade I bet!

Marty: Probably Gordie did.

Kim: Yeh, chances are that geeky Gordie for sure got like a hundred and two percent!

Terry: Man, did you ever in your whole life see a guy as geeky as Gordie?

Kim: Them silly lookin’ glasses.

Terry: Clothes like from the eighties!

Marty: Now that is just wrong, talking about Gordie that way!

Terry: You don’t think Gordie dresses geeky?

Marty: Oh for sure, geekiest goober I ever did see, just doesn’t seem right talking about him that way is all.

Tommy comes on stage with Morgan and Jamie, Tommy is glaring at others. As they come on stage the other actors move away, giving Tommy and his friends more room

Terry: Oh, oh!

Sydney: What’s wrong Terry?

Terry: Don’t turn around, don’t even blink . . . It’s Tough Tommy!

Marty: Tough Tommy, meanest kid in school, always bullying other kids.

Kim: You know, he doesn’t look so tough.

Terry: That’s what Billy Miller said too.

Sydney: Did you notice Billy had lost all his front teeth?

Terry: They aren’t exactly lost. Likely still can find them in the dirt in the school yard . . . where Tough Tommy Franklin’s knuckles put them.

Kim: Tommy Franklin, doesn’t he live with his dad in that little house just outside town?

Terry: The same. And that’s one place I am never going trick or treating at Halloween I tell yah!

Marty: My mom told me Tommy’s mom died, cancer I think, his dad took her death real hard.

The complete script, plus all 1,600+ other DramaShare scripts, are available at no charge to DramaShare members, non-members may purchase the individual script.