I recently started watching glee, got hooked on it, and watched it from the beginning. I noticed that someone in glee club gets a slushie thrown at them daily. The school does nothing about this.

In my opinion this is a gentler bullying. No the kids are not getting physically hurt, but I imagine emotionally and mentally they are.

My question is, would parents actually consider this bullying since they only do it to members of the glee club?

Oh hell yes. My instructions to my kids would be the next person who tosses a slushie on you punch them in the mouth as hard as you can and if they getup give them a proper thrashing!

Daddy will take care of the principle!

And if they are suspended I would pat them on the shoulder and tell them cheerfully they got a two week reprieve from the BS and all they have to do is knuckle down on the homework and spend the rest of their punishment having fun.

Likewise I would be getting a lawyer or two and poising to punish that school for allowing such conduct to be tolerated!

My mom had the same idea when I was growing up lol

I learned to fight back, and please save the "you should tell an adult" speech. I tried that, all it did was get me beat up after school when there were no adults around to run to. As soon as I fought back, the bullies left me alone.

Bullying is a major problem in schools, but in the end the bullies win because kids do as their parents tell them, the back down and go tell an adult. Yes, this is great, but what do the kids do when there is no adult around to tell?

My feeling is if kids are harrassing students by pitching drinks, food, objects at/on someone; especially repeatedly, that is the same as spitting or hitting.

We had always told ALL our kids when something happened they could defend themselves but there would be no hell they could imagine if we found out they threw the first punch, or ran their mouth in such a way to incite someone.

My sons went to a multitude of schools moving around as a military brat so they knew how to go into a school and "blend in" and only had one kid in high school that tried to have a fight with him. And he was pretty obnoxious about it for a couple of weeks which our son reported to us at the supper table daily. Because we gave our kids not only the skills to cope and avoid conflict but assertively defend themselves he quickly over powered this young man and restrained him until the students he sent to bring back authority did so when the kid actually sucker punched him in the face. But we were fortuneate that he did not have to continue to deal with an abusive neglectful teacher or mob like some students do. But we did experience that with our disabled child and it took years to get this teacher out of the classroom so I have no illusions about realities.

People do have to step up and stop the unacceptable behavior sooner than later. Parents, teachers, neighbors, bus drivers, and the public.

I have not seen the show you are talking about but if it is as popular a show as OP suggests I find this upsetting because sponsors and viewers should make it clear how wrong this behavior is and how it should be handled not laugh at how it wasn't or try to excuse it as entertainment because this is how kids get the idea that it is funny or cool or going to tolerated.

I call it bullying a girl i went to high school with always picked on me so I poured a soda on her head at a wrestling match just saying sometimes i had enough of being picked on and had to stand up for myself. Still laugh about it but yeah it is considered bullying but she stole stuff from my house and my locker so yeah i had to defend myself you can't always have people walk all over you sometimes enough is enough!!!!!!!!!!!

yes, if my child was affected by it and came to me,, I would consider it bullying

if anyone for any reason had thrown a slushie at my child in the schools they attended there would have been consequences.

really any continued or persistent unwanted attention, negative comment or language, attempts to bait arguments are all forms of bullying....best left to those lacking in any real brains

It is a bit off topic but a situation presented to day were an elderly lady was brought to tears by similiar tactics so I bring it up because we have the power as adults to step up and speak up when ever we see this kind of abusive behavior. It hurts regardless of a person's age.