Ms. Maureen Mast has a son in 10th grade named Chad. Chad in a nutshell is a big, built, aggressive teenager who enjoys great popularity among his peers and he sits in the small percentage of the student body that enjoys overwhelming success with the opposite sex. One thing Chad also enjoys doing is bullying all the weaker kids, be it make fun of them, steal their lunch money, shove them into small spaces or tie them up and lock them in the trunk of his car on a hot day over lunch period.
Ms. Maureen tells her son not to bully, but treat others the way he wants to be treated yet her son doesn’t listen. The last time she caught him bullying someone she got furious. That day Chad had his two best friends pin down a coloured boy on the pavement while he drew racial slurs with sidewalk chalk on his skin. Maureen happened to be driving by when this happened and her initial reaction was to firmly order her son in the car and to let the boy go. She told him the next time she catches him bullying she will brutally punish and embarrass him, not going into detail how she’d do it. Chad would roll his eyes and nod, fake promising to his mom that he’ll be nicer to all the kids at school from that day on.