bully.gifFour million teachers from around the world have called for retailers to boycott selling the new game Bully: Scholarship Edition. Actually, Bully isn’t a new game but a sort-of director’s cut of the original PS2 title. Regardless, teacher unions from around the world worry about the implications of a title they feel glorifies the act of bullying.

Eight teachers’ unions in Canada, the United States, Britain, South Korea, Australia and the Caribbean have banded together in order to request the boycott of retailers. “We’re asking retailers to be responsible,” Emily Noble, president of the Canadian Teachers’ Federation, said yesterday. “Yes, they can sell it and make a buck out of this, but is this the kind of marketing that they want to be [doing], selling games that glorify ?”

Bully follows the exploits of a rebellious teen that can use a variety of tactics to survive his time while at a British boarding school. He can, in fact, bully other , but the game also requires him to go to class in order to increase his abilities. These classes are basically mini-games based upon different subjects.

Will any of this have much of an impact? In response to the first game’s release two British retail chains refused to carry the game. So, yes, it might. However, don’t count on all retailers honoring the teachers’ request. It’s just another skirmish in this on-going war.


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