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RE: The Cost of Public School Bullying
A hard subject indeed. The problem is also for the "responsible" kids as most of the time they have a rough time in their homes and "learned" that bullying the others is the only survivor method. I don't say that the focus should be on "aggressors" only but they are also kids that suffer a lot in their lives. I would like so much to see in the public system subjects as empathy and social awareness and I believe this would be the chance to change the bad behavior. As long as we as adults judge the others our children will mirror this and will enter in the same bad cycle in a more aggressive way as they don't know yet the social norms.
Judging is fine. Don't just judge on superficial crap, but judge justly. A bully is a bully, and indeed they suffer to be doing what they do. They need the most help in order to stop what they are doing and repeating the cycle of abuse. Thanks for the feedback.
I think this is a great point, which goes hand in hand with public school being voluntary, what would the adults teach the prodigy, would they borg out and follow the Common Core or chose to do away with the social experiments that are public schools, aimed at delivering obedience or non critical thoughts, instead opting for discussing and recognizing certain truths about experience, like empathy. We could be educating tiny philosophers and creative geniuses instead of robbing children of sensibilities.