Saturday, July 01, 2006

Bullying

It seems to me that every possible answer is put forward for the problem of bullying but the most obvious and most amidiatly affective answer that of empowering the bullied to fight back. It seems to me that we do everything possible to not empower the bullied we tell them that violence is never the answer, we tell them that if they were to fight back then they would just be bringing themselves down to their level, we even try and teach them to feel sorry for the bully because they are probably emotionaly damaged and anable to express their pain in any other way, and do you know what? their probably right bullys probably are for the most part emotionaly damaged and certainly do need counciling but being morally superior to them isn't going to help you much if you're getting you're arse kicked.

2 comments:

Howard Shapiro said...

Bullying in schools in a major problem in schools here in the USA and all around the world. I decided for my 2nd book to write about bullying and I just completed a promo video I did for this new Children's Book which is titled, "Destructo Boy & Spillerella...We Are Who We Are!" It will be released on 9/12/06. In the meantime, here is the link to watch the video for it! Thanks and enjoy! Pls email me with any questions or if you'd like any further information (howard.shapiro@hotmail.com)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5huicI6KxA

Take care,

Howard
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Phillip R Goodman said...

it isn't about learning any sort of dicipline its just about getting out of a sort of victim based mentality and not being scared to do anything back.