Taylor only gets malicious when they force her to participate if given the option she would rather not take part. She starts getting malicious when it is mandatory.
Yeah but instead all it shows her that they are only doing this for her, aka they are only doing this because she is potentially useful for them and that they wouldn't even bother with a sprry if she was just a normal civilian.
It's worse than that, the advice in their anti-bullying message was the same tripe that she already tried that failed to work at Winslow.
So they aren't even giving serious advice, they are just parroting the same worthless tripe that doesn't actually solve the problem.
Nahhh, schools hate getting cops involved the same as the rest of us. You get slapped with a suspention, eat the punishment and come back the victor.
Little shits never tried me again.
Some schools have a "police counselor" although I believe it is now called a "school resource officer" that is an actual police officer on the school's payroll.
They can and will use him as a stick, and also abuse school authority to circumvent 4th and 5th Amendment rights.
They bring the cop in with the dean and the dean asks the questions while the cop takes notes.
If the student refuses to answer the dean, the dean threatens and then actually issues punishments.
If the student answers a question that incriminates them, the cop can then arrest them and use their confession against them.
Oh, they aren't in police custody, but they can't leave, can't get to a phone to call for a parent or lawyer. The Dean will refuse to allow it.
It's funny how they only do this type of thing to Targets like Taylor, never to actual troublemakers that instigate, only trouble magnets like Taylor.
"Let's be friends!" is an old bullying trick, where the bully or an accomplice pretends to befriend the victim only to later use that confidence and lowered defenses against them. Emma played it on Taylor in canon as part of the escalation up to the Locker.
Given the lack of action taken against her tormentors, to the point of running her out of town? It is the PRT, and you, that is assuming a level of trust that is unearned. Taylor hears their words clearly, and that most 'help' and 'out reach' is steeped in the assumption of a payback of her becoming a Ward.
Actually, I see it as the adults seeing Taylor as a petulant child that doesn't know what's good for her. They expect her to be a good obedient child and "get with the program" and when she refuses to buy into their program, are all upset and say SHE is the problem because she won't give it chance.
It doesn't matter that the MINOR child has good reasons to want nothing to do with your plan/program, the adult has made the decision the child is going to participate, and they should get with it and stop being so obstinate.
I'm not good at expressing myself, I encountered this type of attitude with the bullying when the adults solutions amounted to what I still see today as slapping punishments and restrictions on me, saying I was the problem because I had "poor peer relations skills" and "was making yourself a target". The fact that I resisted their "b-mod" programs "Because you need to learn to de-escalate the situation and stop getting involved in these violent incidents" was proof that I was a petulant child with no respect for authority.
The fact that they blamed the victim made me lose respect for them didn't help as I did find it hard to argue about the "no respect for authority" when I had a hard time respecting the authority in question.
