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This pseudo caste system was probably beneficial to you in the upper caste, but I don't think students in tier 3 and below saw their lives improve.
by Smithalicious 7y ago
This pseudo caste system was probably beneficial to you in the upper caste, but I don't think students in tier 3 and below saw their lives improve.
- adwn 7y ago> This pseudo caste system was probably beneficial to you in the upper caste, but I don't think students in tier 3 and below saw their lives improve. It is hardly a child's responsibility to suffer from the violence, bullying, and general disinterest in any academic achievement by another group of children.
- jbergens 7y agoBut it is ok if the not bright but nice kids are bullied?
- adwn 7y agoYou raise a good point. To answer your question: No, that is absolutely not okay. I'm afraid I don't have a good solution for that.
- ninkendo 7y agoWhy is it such a given that bullies are dumb? In both middle school and high school, I was bullied incessantly by kids who were doing just fine, academically. Some of them went on to be quite successful people. Bullies nonetheless. It would be so convenient (and karmically just) if all the awful kids went on to be dropouts and losers in life, but sometimes it doesn’t work out that way. Sometimes they’re smart kids, but they’re just assholes.
- adwn 7y ago> Why is it such a given that bullies are dumb? I guess I was projecting from my own experience – my bullies were rather dumb, and I got rid of them when they dropped out.
- rimliu 7y agoKeeping them together would not improve tier 3 lives a bit (besides providing more targets for bullying), but would hurt tiers 1 and 2.
- swish_bob 7y agoThat turns out not to be the case. As is discussed at length in the article we're commenting on.