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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 645624" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>Unfortunately, it doesn't matter what the parent says about bullying. Nor the student who is bullied. The first, because parents don't count for anything in the school system, and the second because the school system is set up to support those who are "strong". So, if you are being bullied, you are weak = you need to wake up/grow up/assert yourself/whatever you have to do, so you aren't bullied.</p><p></p><p>"not my problem" attitude, in may cases. Anti-bullying legislation makes it worse, not better - no school wants to admit there is a bullying problem in <em>their</em> school, or <em>they</em> are on the mat.</p><p></p><p>When I was a kid, most bullying took place in the school yard. Teachers didn't intervene... but all the parents knew each other and parents would take it up with other parents... usually a bully has more than one target, and the parent community was fairly effective at controlling the worst of it. Today? no "parent community" to fill the gap.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 645624, member: 11791"] Unfortunately, it doesn't matter what the parent says about bullying. Nor the student who is bullied. The first, because parents don't count for anything in the school system, and the second because the school system is set up to support those who are "strong". So, if you are being bullied, you are weak = you need to wake up/grow up/assert yourself/whatever you have to do, so you aren't bullied. "not my problem" attitude, in may cases. Anti-bullying legislation makes it worse, not better - no school wants to admit there is a bullying problem in [I]their[/I] school, or [I]they[/I] are on the mat. When I was a kid, most bullying took place in the school yard. Teachers didn't intervene... but all the parents knew each other and parents would take it up with other parents... usually a bully has more than one target, and the parent community was fairly effective at controlling the worst of it. Today? no "parent community" to fill the gap. [/QUOTE]
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