Story: Connecting to Dalton, Chapter 2

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Warnings: Trigger alert, mentions of self harm and allusions to suicide.
Summary: When Kurt transfer back to McKinley, it's not for the reasons many thinks. As the Warblers sing to their goodbye, Kurt thinks back at his time with them, and the friends he have made and which he will miss horribly.
Beta: Thanks to The Other for beta, and all

Comments

[shadowc44]

That's another thing I wish they'd explored in more detail on the show. Yes, it's entirely believable that Kurt was subjected to so much bullying, but we saw relatively little for the other students, aside from the occasional slushy. Those are bad enough, and I can't imagine any real school putting up with that for a second, but people are bullied for a huge number of reasons. Most of them are things a person has no control over, but it can be anything, from the things you're interested in, to who you hang around with, what you wear, your grades, your speech; any way in which kids don't fit in the with the pack mindset, they are instantly seen as prey. The Buffy episode "The Pack" (I think that was the name, early first season) was spot-on with this.

I know it was supposed to be played for comedy, but it was ridiculous how oblivious the principal and the staff were to the things that the students put up with from their supposed peers.

And they never followed up with the Gay-Straight Alliance that Kurt and Karofsky were supposed to moderate together. So much wasted potential on that show!

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Yeah, I remember the first time I saw the show, and how they joked with that Kurt was thrown in the dumpster, and I just kept thinking that it was horrible humour. I know that if all the bullying we see in the show had been happenining in a school in Norway, someone would have done something. I have several times wished I could strange that horrible principal.

I also find it strange that Kurt, as the only out he knows, doesn't contact LGBT and figure out if there is some meetings or something nearby; you would think he would search out some likeminded company. Ugh, yes, there is a lot of potential, and they let them go to waste.