There's a line where teasing becomes bullying and that line moves depending on the individual and subject matter. If this child was teased by the same child or children prior to this incident than by my measure this was bullying. If this was the first incident then I'd like to know how the kids reacted when they saw this kid crying? If they stopped than they are compassionate and failed to predict the sensitivity of the situation. If they continued I'd be concerned.
I really can't believe that people are criticising the shirt design.
That's OK, I still root for football which isn't great but a religion down there and their basketball unless of course they were playing UCONN. when Tennessee loses at football their fans walk around in sackcloth and ashes, they are very very serious.
A % of profits!
You'd be surprised. I've been part of several parent/teacher/admin meetings relating to things kids said to each other over various social media platforms. I had a third grader who was talking about his youtube channel in class, for example. Later members of admin found out he was bad mouthing the school on his channel. Over the years (1 in 3rd grade, 1 in 4th grade, 4 in 5th grade, 2 in 6th, 2 in 7th, 2 in 8th) I have witnessed way too many issues that started online. Kids have come to me in tears showing me some of the stuff that has been sent to them over social media. Again, some of these instances were indeed as young as 3rd and 4th grade! Some of those messages are absolutely brutal. If I did not know any better, I'd peg them as messages between adults with some of the swears and insults used. In fact, so many 5th graders from my past classes had phones that after my first week with them I started collecting them at the start of the day and did not give them back until the end of the day because it prevented a lot of issues during school.
And the resulting shirt has kind of a cool Derpy Dog vibe. I like it, well I would if it wasn't Tennessee.
Not more vicious, just softer and no character
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