school bullying

  • In spite of her mother's assurances that spoonbills were elegant and beautiful, little Billie still got bullied by the egret kids and the cormorants . . .

Bullied Billie

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  • Purrfect's friends at school teased her for carrying her tail high and forward, said she looked line a Siberian Husky.  The DNA test revealed she was, in fact, part Husky; she was the rare and elusive Hus-Kitty . . .

Hus-Kitty

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Mean Girls

Eliza hoped going to a private girls school would end the teasing she had suffered in public school, only to discover the girls there were just trust fund “Mean Girls,” and they still called her “Volcano Head . . .”

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Big Lips

Gisela didn’t have a good first day in school–All the other kids had long, pointy beaks, but being a spoonbill, pointy wasn’t an option.  It didn’t look like braces would help either . . .

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Float Like a Butterfly

When Josh told his dad about being bullied, his dad said be like Ali–Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. Yeah, sure, dad . . .

By |May 3rd, 2017|Categories: Reptiles & Amphibians, Sports|Tags: , , , |Comments Off on Float Like a Butterfly

Name Calling

Instead of “Pleasingly Plump,”  “Rotund” or “Mister Symmetrical,” the tough guys and bullies at school only called Hubert “The Short Fat Guy With Bad Hair . . .”

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