Re: Bullying

greebs <greebs@xxxxxx> wrote:

The difference between the amount of bullying I was aware of as a child,
and what I see now, makes me wonder whether adults and teachers ever see
or become aware of any but a tiny fraction of what happens.

Schools take bullying much more seriously now than in the past. Most
will have anti-bullying policies and many have initiatives such as peer
mentoring.

Of course, one of the main problems with bullying is that it is often
insidious and adults may be unaware that anything is happening.

It seems to me that many *children* who are bullied are not aware they
are being bullied. Being left out, being forgotten or deliberately
excluded, being made fun of and so on - these constitute more of what
I'd call bullying than the traditional picture of beatings and threats.
It's just as systematic, just as destructive, and all the bullied child
knows is that they are miserable and don't have as many friends as they
would like.

I have no idea how even the most vigilant of schools can deal with this
kind of bullying adequately, given its nature.

Daniele
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