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Yet another reason why homeschooling is a good idea.
by adamnemecek 6y ago
Yet another reason why homeschooling is a good idea.
- zepto 6y agoThis. School causes bullying.
- adamnemecek 6y agoAnd teacher are sometimes legit bullies.
- dvtrn 6y agoShort version of a long tale: this is sad but true in some cases. I had to go with my sister as backup after her kid came home in tears because a teacher called the child "ugly" and said "I don't want to look at your face". Whether or not they said it we'll never know, only going off of what her kid told us and said teacher denying it, but the teacher was fired months later after an investigation launched from other poor behavior on their part-reported to the school by several other parents, so there's weight to the kid's claims.
- giardini 6y agoWhat do you mean by "legit bullies"? That is, do you mean -"teachers sometimes bully students." or - "teachers are allowed to bully students." or - something else.
- adamnemecek 6y agoThe first.
- giardini 6y agoOK. No doubt. I am glad you brought this up. I've never been bullied by a peer or near-peer. That is, I was never in a situation that I could not handle. In my entire life I've only seen one case where another child was bullied by older boys and I knew that was bad. BUT when you mentioned teachers, I thought of a middle-and-high school teacher/coach who held a grudge for reasons unknown. In response I skated by in his freshman biology class and, in general, wouldn't give him the time of day. So yes, teachers can indeed act like bullies. But I think most people don't think of bullying per se as being something teachers or other authority figures do but instead something that one's peers or near-age peers do.
- zepto 6y agoThat’s true because of how school bullying is typically defined. But of course if coaches etc get away with it, they are setting an example that some students will follow. This is one of several ways in which school causes bullying.
- WarOnPrivacy 6y agoYes but they're few (source: 5 kids, 1 district). The worst example I can think of is one teacher who's poor judgment resulted in decisions that were indistinguishable from abuse.
- CyberDildonics 6y agoThat's like saying roads cause traffic deaths or office buildings cause sexual harassment.
- antepodius 6y agoParticular environments encourage different behavious in people. A lot of people in jail do things they wouldn't outside.
- CyberDildonics 6y agoYou don't think it might be a bit hyperbolic to make the generalization that schools in general cause bullying? What is it about schools that are different from other gatherings? Is it every school at every age in every country? Do you think that the school might just be present in the equation and that this is a lazy and naive conclusion from a single correlation with no nuance or control statistics?
- WarOnPrivacy 6y agoI offer that it's the reliable occurrence of a gathering that presents opportunities for bullies to shape their craft. That the gathering is a school seems like a minimal factor.
- mr_toad 6y ago> What is it about schools that are different from other gatherings? They leave large groups of children unsupervised for up to an hour at a time. It should be obvious to any parent or anyone who’s had much to do with children what’s going to happen.
- Nasrudith 6y agoPlus the forced into the same location dynamics - guess where we also see that? Prison. If you defined the school system behavior using prison system behavior it is hard to find anything present in schools not essentially present in prison. Graduation/release, lipservice of "development of skills" when they really worry about socialization the most.... Seriously could someone find anything that proves school isn't a subset of prison in its behaviors instead of just how people treat it?
- astura 6y agoNonsense, as a kid I was bullied outside of school much more than in school.