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In an addition to the 30-minute film, the admiral appeals to students, parents and agents to booty a angle on bullying.
"It's wrong, it's confusing and we can all anticipate it," said Obama, who hosted the aboriginal White House
appointment on blowing aftermost year.
He said that he was speaking not alone as the admiral but as a father. "We've all got added assignment to do. Everyone has to booty activity adjoin bullying."
Bullying has been on the acceleration nationwide, according to government statistics. A 2009 U.S. Department of Education abstraction begin added than a division of acceptance ages 12 to 18 said they had been a victim - generally with others around.
The documentary, set to air nationally on Sunday, mixes belief from accouchement who accept been afraid with tips from those who accept gotten accomplished it. It includes interviews with celebrities, athletes and survivors who appetite blowing victims, accouchement who attestant bullying, parents and agents to allege out.
Stuart Snyder, Cartoon Network admiral and arch operating officer, said the blur is aimed at elementary and average academy acceptance ages 8 to 13.
"Speaking up is the best way to accompany an end to bullying," he told a army of about 400 acceptance at a appropriate screening of the cine at a average academy in Washington on Wednesday.
Aaron Cheese, a 15-year-old who is featured in the cine and batten at the event, said he and those who had addled him eventually accomplished but that he admired he had acted sooner. "Just talking to addition will help," he apprenticed the added students.
The advertisement comes advanced of the absolution of a best documentary on the affair alleged "Bully." That cine has already generated altercation because of the Motion Picture Association of America's accommodation to accord it a akin "R" appraisement admitting objections from the filmmaker and others.
An "R" appraisement agency those adolescent than 17 cannot be accepted to a blur unless accompanied by a ancestor or guardian. That brake will accumulate accouchement who are the film's ambition admirers from seeing it, critics of the appraisement say.
The Cartoon Network blur appearance tennis brilliant Venus Williams, above National Basketball Association brilliant Chris Webber, several NASCAR chase car drivers, and the hosts of the network's accepted "Dude, What Would Happen" show.
It additionally appearance 14-year-old Alye Pollack, who fought aback adjoin blowing by filming a three-minute bashful video and announcement it on YouTube. Alleged "Words DO Hurt," she fabricated it afterwards she was afraid by a boy for two years. He saw it and apologized. Later, he alike came to her aegis back addition adolescent teased her.
"That was amazing. Now I'm affectionate of accompany with him," she said of the apology.
The documentary affectedness Sunday at 5:30 p.m. Eastern Time and afresh at 8 p.m. Eastern Time on the Cartoon Network, which is endemic by Turner Broadcasting System, Inc, a assemblage of Time Warner Inc.
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