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Just a Little Red Dot

36 minutes 3 seconds

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Jamie's new neighbor, Parvathi, is from Sri Lanka, and they are both in the same class in school. When bullies make fun of Parvathi's bindi, or red dot, the class rallies behind her, and Jamie learns a valuable lesson about respecting cultural differences. Based on a true incident in a Canadian school.

Media Details

Runtime: 36 minutes 3 seconds

Topic: Counseling and Self-Help, Social Science
Subtopic: Bullying, Multiculturalism, Prejudice
Grade/Interest Level: 3 - 6
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Release Year: 1995
Producer/Distributor: New Dimension Media/Questar

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3 quarter view of teenage girl with troubled expression. Canopy of trees and gray sky in background. Caption. Most bystanders avoid interfering.

Small crowd of people, some with lanyards and heads bowed. Caption. Of different nationalities, ages, social positions.

Boy with dark curly hair sits at a desk and smiles up to the side. Other children out of focus in background. Caption. If I have a bully.

Adolescent girl seated at a school desk, looking up towards the front of class with a pensive expression. Caption. And I want Jessica, Valesca, and Gavin.

Teenage boy with a distressed expression leans on a table and looks up at a shadowy figure in a dark room. Caption. Cause problems, cause this.

Children walking down a hallway at school with a negative photo editing effect. Caption. Male narrator. Seven out of ten kids have been bullied.

Young girl wearing a backpack looks down at the ground in a public bathroom. Caption. What a loser!

Closeup side view of a young woman in front of a red brick wall with her mouth open mid-speech. Caption. Lori as narrator. What? Caption. Nothing, nothing.

Storybook illustration of a woman with black hair holding up a brown-haired young boy by his t-shirt. Both look angry. Story text appears under the illustration.