Comments on: INFOGRAPHIC: Bullying Online http://www.pcmech.com/article/infographic-bullying-online/ Tech Powered Life... Simplified Sat, 09 Feb 2013 03:19:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Petuniahttp://www.pcmech.com/article/infographic-bullying-online/comment-page-1/#comment-78300 Petunia Wed, 22 Aug 2012 19:41:00 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/?p=16609#comment-78300 Not new. My son is 30 yrs old; when he was in kindergarten at a nearby parochial school, the son of one of the wealthier families came to school with straight pins, with which he stabbed other children. The teachers never seemed to notice this. I am old; I told my son to just hit the kid if he ever came near - and when my kid told me that he couldn't do this because his teacher would get mad, I told him that he'd have to deal with the teacher for the rest of the year, but would have to deal with the bully for 9 years, and that I would get him an ice cream cone if he hit the kid. Subsequently I pulled my kid out and home schooled him (he was never stabbed); but a couple of years later an 8th grade girl in the same school attempted to kill herself after years of bullying which the teachers never noticed - including an episode in which she was "pantsed" by some of her classmates at a school talent show. There were apparently no consequences for the little darlings who pulled this public "stunt". One term during the home school years I put my kid into the local public middle school as punishment for not doing his work at home and was treated to various horror stories about school. The one I remember was the time a little brat yelled at a friend of my son (during lunch) that his mother was a whore. As I said, I'm old; so I asked my kid if he had rubbed the other kid's face in the dirt or had at least tried. He told me, of course, that he had not because he would be suspended if he did.There was bullying when I was in school, but somehow teachers and other adults seemed to notice it then and put a stop to it at least in the places where they were in charge. My experience with my son's "outside" education in grade school was that the teachers either ignored it or, in a couple of particular ugly cases, encouraged it. I sent him to a private high school where that kind of thing didn't seem to happen.Sorry for the "wall of text", but this has been one of my "hot buttons" for years. Yes, I agree completely that the reason it seems to be out of control is that adults condone or encourage it. Not new. My son is 30 yrs old; when he was in kindergarten at a nearby parochial school, the son of one of the wealthier families came to school with straight pins, with which he stabbed other children. The teachers never seemed to notice this. I am old; I told my son to just hit the kid if he ever came near – and when my kid told me that he couldn’t do this because his teacher would get mad, I told him that he’d have to deal with the teacher for the rest of the year, but would have to deal with the bully for 9 years, and that I would get him an ice cream cone if he hit the kid. Subsequently I pulled my kid out and home schooled him (he was never stabbed); but a couple of years later an 8th grade girl in the same school attempted to kill herself after years of bullying which the teachers never noticed – including an episode in which she was “pantsed” by some of her classmates at a school talent show. There were apparently no consequences for the little darlings who pulled this public “stunt”. One term during the home school years I put my kid into the local public middle school as punishment for not doing his work at home and was treated to various horror stories about school. The one I remember was the time a little brat yelled at a friend of my son (during lunch) that his mother was a whore. As I said, I’m old; so I asked my kid if he had rubbed the other kid’s face in the dirt or had at least tried. He told me, of course, that he had not because he would be suspended if he did.

There was bullying when I was in school, but somehow teachers and other adults seemed to notice it then and put a stop to it at least in the places where they were in charge. My experience with my son’s “outside” education in grade school was that the teachers either ignored it or, in a couple of particular ugly cases, encouraged it. I sent him to a private high school where that kind of thing didn’t seem to happen.

Sorry for the “wall of text”, but this has been one of my “hot buttons” for years. Yes, I agree completely that the reason it seems to be out of control is that adults condone or encourage it.

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