THE "IN" CROWD AND SOCIAL CRUELTY

Resource #
DVD • ICSD789W

Price $89.95

Program Contents: 41 minutes

Captioning: Closed Captioned

Copyright Date: 2002

Available in the United States and Canada Only

What does it take to be popular? Quite often it has nothing to do with being nice. In this ABC News special, correspondent John Stossel visits middle and high schools to discover why kids dish out abuse, why they take it, and what parents and school administrators can do to make it better.

He also visits schools with successful anti-bullying programs. Discussions with students, as well as with psychologist Michael Thompson, author of Best Friends, Worst Enemies, reveal a number of factors that cause popularity or unpopularity among children, adolescents, and even adults.