A lesson in Discrimination - 10 years later

The follow-up to the documentary ‘A Lesson in Discrimination’ revisits its principal characters 10 years after a teacher in rural Quebec conducted a fascinating experiment in her classroom. In 2006, teacher Annie Leblanc had a problem on her hands. One of her pupils had been harassed for years because of his weight and he was on the verge on becoming violent. Inspired by the famous Brown Eyes/Blue eyes experiment, she divided her class into two groups and treated them differently for two days. After a very tense couple of days and weeks of discussion afterwards, the experiment was deemed a success: the boy was left alone by his harassers. He was eventually able to make friends and garner enough self-confidence to defend himself. But what happened to the gifted chubby boy after the cameras left? Do his tormentors, now 18 years old, understand today the hell they put him through? And what became of the other pupils, the ones who had rebelled or quietly revealed secrets to the camera? The follow-up tries to answer these questions and other, more fundamental ones: what are the lasting effects of severe harassment in childhood?