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Can bullying in schools be stopped? How so?

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PJ Stein answered

I don't think it can be completely stopped. It can be corrected and handled, but I think in school age kids, it is part of human nature, and part of growing up.

Tris Fray Potter Profile

I don't think it will ever be completely stopped, as Gator said, it's part of human nature.  I think that it will always be a big problem as long as parents tell kids to just 'suck it up' and kids are too scared to tell anyone.

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Tris Fray Potter
Tris Fray Potter commented
I think that the only thing we can do is to recognise bullying and get help early. I just did a course on bullying, and a couple of the big things that was covered was recognising bullying, and how to handle bullying. The only reason I did this course is only because I am helping out with the grade 7's at our school next year, but I think that the things that we learned in the course were valuable should be taught throughout the whole grade.
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Tris, just for my research, at what grade or age did the bullying courses introduced at your school. Were you taught to never retaliate under any circumstances?...Stuart
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Tris Fray Potter commented
This course in particular was at the end of grade 10 (15yo). I was taught how to deal with bullying since Prep, but never in as much detail. We have mental health first aid courses in grade 10, and we were told how to deal with bullying every year, but I liked this one because it taught us more how to recognise the signs and how to talk to someone (particularly someone younger) who is being bullied, and who is the bully than how to deal when you are being bullied. It was also more interactive, which I though was good.
Before this course, we were taught to tell the bully to stop ('stop it, I don't like it'), and if it continues, to tell a teacher, or a SHRO (student harassment referral officer, which was what the course was for).
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Yin And Yang answered

My daughter gets bullied at school everyday. As a parent I wanna take the little brats and beat their a$$ myself! Excuse my language but I am sick of it. Last year some little brat spit on her mouth and she got sick then the rest of us got it! That is BODILY FLUIDS! I was furious! When she let the "yard duty" (rolls eyes) know, she was told well no one saw it so there is nothing anyone can do. This year I WITNESSED some little brat hit my daughter in the back of her head with 5 adults present and I made SURE the school knew that I, an adult saw it this time! Wanna know what the school did? Protected the bully and shunned the victim! If it wasn't for her Teacher this year I would have yanked her out of the school. Wanna know how the bullying for MY kid will be stopped? I am homeschooling her next year. NO kid deserves to be touched! Just because it's a minor shouldn't make it okay and swept under the rug as "kids will be kids!" I absolutely HATE public schools anymore!

Smiley Crankenhoof Profile

Nope! Bullying is embedded within the nature of human beings. The ones who aren't jerks have managed to sublimate their more primitive selves, but it's still in there!

Stormy-Lynn Calvert Profile

I don't think it'll ever be completely stopped. I can only speak from my own experience though. I had a bully that wouldn't leave me alone in high school. For the first year and a half it was words and jokes and humiliation. You know, typical bully stuff. Then it got worse. Her good-for-nothing friends were there to be sure and help her out. I tried to take it to a teacher but all they did was basically shake a finger at her and say no. That didn't stop her. After awhile, she started slapping me and I had had enough. I decked her. I got suspended but she never did bully me again. :)

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