Another blogger on bullying

Another homeschooling blogger, BigNut, has a post on students bullying teachers. According to a study in Ontario, 38% of teachers reported having been bullied by students. Of these, more than 1 in 5 sought professional help to deal with the consequences of the bullying. BigNut rightly asks, if so many teachers can't avoid being bullied and find it difficult to cope with bullying, how are the kids faring?

In another post on bullying, BigNut cites research showing that the vast majority of bullying occurs in front of others, and that bullies, contrary to what most of us had thought, are well-liked and have high social status. This suggests that counseling individual bullies is not going to work, because they are not "acting out" due to personal problems. They bully other kids because bullying works for them. It seems the whole school culture would need to be changed such that bullying does not boost one's social position (but how likely is that?).

Check out these posts... and thanks, BigNut!