A Girl Like Her

It's not ok if I... [Gasps] 641 00:29:30,102 --> 00:29:32,636 If I Would've known that the... what? 642 00:29:32,638 --> 00:29:34,238 I didn't know those pills were there. 643 00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:36,106 I didn't even know that they were there. 644 00:29:36,108 --> 00:29:38,142 Honey... how did she find them? 645 00:29:38,144 --> 00:29:40,144 It's not your fault, all right? 646 00:29:40,146 --> 00:29:41,612 You listen to me. Listen to me. 647 00:29:41,614 --> 00:29:43,580 I saw those pills... the pills were there. 648 00:29:43,582 --> 00:29:45,149 I saw them in the cabinet. 649 00:29:45,151 --> 00:29:47,551 I didn't throw them away, either, ok? 650 00:29:47,553 --> 00:29:50,554 Do you think it's my fault? 651 00:29:50,556 --> 00:29:52,756 Are you sure? [Sobbing] 652 00:29:52,758 --> 00:29:55,159 No. Ok. 653 00:29:55,161 --> 00:29:58,428 Then it couldn't be your fault, ok? 654 00:30:00,565 --> 00:30:03,167 We'll find out what happened, ok? 655 00:30:03,169 --> 00:30:05,569 But this is not something you did. 656 00:30:05,571 --> 00:30:08,839 You're a good mom, ok? [Groans] 657 00:30:10,141 --> 00:30:12,476 Jess: It's not gonna stop, you know? 658 00:30:12,478 --> 00:30:16,079 It's... it's not like it's just at school. 659 00:30:16,081 --> 00:30:19,049 It's on my phone, 660 00:30:19,051 --> 00:30:21,451 it's online. 661 00:30:21,453 --> 00:30:25,455 It just consumes my life, and I just... 662 00:30:25,457 --> 00:30:29,059 I Can't concentrate on anything else, 663 00:30:29,061 --> 00:30:31,728 no matter how hard I try. 664 00:30:32,864 --> 00:30:36,066 No matter where I go, no matter what I do, 665 00:30:36,068 --> 00:30:38,802 she always... she just... 666 00:30:38,804 --> 00:30:41,305 [sniffles, sighs] 667 00:30:41,307 --> 00:30:46,310 She just always... Finds a way to get at me. 668 00:30:46,312 --> 00:30:48,579 [Sighs] 669 00:30:51,182 --> 00:30:53,851 [Thunder rolling] 670 00:30:56,654 --> 00:30:58,422 [Rainfall] 671 00:31:02,927 --> 00:31:06,530 Amy: There are some allegations that Jessica was being harassed. 672 00:31:06,532 --> 00:31:08,532 "Bullied," actually, are the words 673 00:31:08,534 --> 00:31:11,134 a lot of your students were using. 674 00:31:11,136 --> 00:31:14,071 I don't have any... 675 00:31:14,073 --> 00:31:16,073 Knowledge of that right now. 676 00:31:16,075 --> 00:31:17,474 That's just... 677 00:31:17,476 --> 00:31:20,777 Um, at this point, I'd put that in a rumor. 678 00:31:20,779 --> 00:31:23,380 Kids tease each other and call each other names 679 00:31:23,382 --> 00:31:27,084 and are mean to each other all of the time. 680 00:31:28,419 --> 00:31:30,621 Amy: Do you guys have a zero bullying policy 681 00:31:30,623 --> 00:31:33,023 in place here? 682 00:31:33,025 --> 00:31:35,826 Yes. Ha! We do. 683 00:31:35,828 --> 00:31:38,896 You smile about that? I do, because I think 684 00:31:38,898 --> 00:31:41,164 it's, uh, it's rhetoric. 685 00:31:41,166 --> 00:31:45,569 Colas: There's no forum for any one of us 686 00:31:45,571 --> 00:31:48,171 to say to anyone, "hey", 687 00:31:48,173 --> 00:31:49,573 "I think this is happening 688 00:31:49,575 --> 00:31:52,743 with my kid in my classes." 689 00:31:52,745 --> 00:31:54,745 They're not going to investigate. 690 00:31:54,747 --> 00:31:57,347 None of the administration really wants to talk about it. 691 00:31:57,349 --> 00:31:59,716 You try to stop something happening one day, 692 00:31:59,718 --> 00:32:02,452 but the next day, you don't know if it's gonna escalate 693 00:32:02,454 --> 00:32:04,955 or you don't know what happens in the other classrooms, and 694 00:32:04,957 --> 00:32:09,126 you don't know what happens when you do take it that next level; 695 00:32:09,128 --> 00:32:11,528 If it gets resolved or if it just is, like, 696 00:32:11,530 --> 00:32:13,864 brushed aside and hushed over. 697 00:32:13,866 --> 00:32:17,067 And if they do get punished, then There's more bullying. 698 00:32:17,069 --> 00:32:19,369 Yeah. For... for the person telling. 699 00:32:20,505 --> 00:32:24,708 Boy: One time, a few people saw it and they sorta... 700 00:32:24,710 --> 00:32:26,209 Talked to Avery, but 701 00:32:26,211 --> 00:32:28,211 no one really took it any further and it... 702 00:32:28,213 --> 00:32:29,579 it didn't really stop. 703 00:32:29,581 --> 00:32:31,949 I've never seen it happen, but if I did, 704 00:32:31,951 --> 00:32:34,551 I don't... Think I Would've done anything about it. 705 00:32:34,553 --> 00:32:37,154 Second boy: They just don't want that status of being, 706 00:32:37,156 --> 00:32:39,690 you know, a tattle tale, a snitch. 707 00:32:39,692 --> 00:32:42,292 Someone goes to a teacher or a counselor, 708 00:32:42,294 --> 00:32:44,294 and someone else will start to make fun of them 709 00:32