cheryl makofka - 2014-10-03 11:36 AM
LoudAppy - 2014-10-03 11:17 AM It is taken much more seriously now. Back then, if you had a problem, you fought it out. That seems to be frowned upon today. Kids take the teasing more seriously, too. They don't just brush it off like we used to. Now they kill themselves, therefore, the adults have to take it seriously, too. A kid in my school was out for 2 days last week because he said he was going to knife another kid. Would he have done it? I doubt it, but we can never be too sure these days.
You say they take it seriously, but what actions have you seen to prove this? I have seen signs up, and I have seen children still being bullied. I spoke with a girlfriend yesterday who has a kid in grade 2, she said yes there was a bully, and yes there is one child who gets picked on repeatedly. She says nothing has been done. My girlfriend says the wife of the bully won't do anything she says because she has 4 boys, the father is in the oilfield so gone a lot. Lack of parenting. Problems are in Canada children have to go to school, or homeschooled till the age of 16. If there is no record of school, social services will intervene. So how can a school expel the bullies in a rural community when the mother refuses to homeschool. How can you segregate bullies from the rest of the school, it would be too expensive. How can you offer counselling when the parents refuse? Right now in our province, zeros cannot be given, and students can not fail as this can damage their self esteem. Soon they will be able to brag 100% graduate rate.
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