The Scary Guy Combats Bullying on Teachers TV

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Teachers TV, the online and digital TV education resource follows The Scary Guy as he tries to combat the cycles of negative bullying within schools.

Inspirations: The Scary Guy offers those in education techniques and ideas about how to handle pupils in conflict situations and encourage dialogue and tolerance among children.

When confronted by The Scary Guy, a completely tattooed giant of a man, upper school students at St Joseph's RC High in Lancashire learn of his mission to eliminate hate, violence and prejudice worldwide. St Joseph's invited Scary to work with them for two sessions over two days. His plan being to offer students a way to "change the world" by taking responsibility for all of their own behaviour.

Scary certainly knows how to get the full attention of his audience as his personal testimony, shock tactics and audience participation demonstrate. Once hooked he issues his 'seven days and seven nights challenge' which asks them to only call people by their given name for a whole week. “Harder than you think”, he says. Day two and Scary gets down to the business of explaining his philosophy in a session he calls ‘The Circle of Courage’. Non-patronising interaction with the students, crazy diagrams and humour are the tools of his trade and he wields them with an infectious passion.

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