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The end of compulsory schooling (whether that compulsion comes from parents or from the state), will one day solve this problem. Bullying occurs wherever freedo
by brachiast 15y ago
The end of compulsory schooling (whether that compulsion comes from parents or from the state), will one day solve this problem. Bullying occurs wherever freedom of association is denied.
A zero-tolerance approach to bullying has about as much chance of working as the War on Drugs. Headteachers and schools always deny serious bullying where it exists.
And minor bullying is indistinguishable from 'socialization', which nearly everyone thinks is a good thing.
- andrewce 15y agoMy experience as both a student and a teacher (in several different schools) suggests that a decent number of teachers (less than half, but more than a few) become teachers mostly because they really like the power games that can be played in school, and the lording of authority. I don't mean this to disparage teachers as a whole. But the power rush is pretty substantial, if one lets it take hold.