A theory about why some people DON'T want schools to fight bullying: [View all]

[Ken Burch]

Last edited Sun Jun 15, 2014, 05:44 AM - Edit history (1)

In addition to the absurd claim that making kids face down bullies somehow "builds character" and prepares the young for a life that must be "struggle", as they see it, a lot of those who say that schools shouldn't step in to end bullying(as they easily could if they wished to)feel that, if kids were raised in a bully-free environment, they'd see a life free of bullying and pain as "an entitlement".

What this really means, to me, is this:

They are afraid that, if kids grew up free of bullies and bullying, they'd get used to that...and then, as adults, when they faced it in the approved forms(exploitative workplaces, rape culture, male-and-white dominance of power)those kids would refuse to accept that those forms of bullying were unchangeable or "necessary".

Those kids would then work, with all their energy, to get rid of those forms of bullying.

And when they did get rid of the currently approved forms of adult bullying, everything that the defenders of bully culture believe in and support would vanish with them.

And life wouldn't cease to be a struggle, at least not at once(and perhaps never), but it would be a far more winnable struggle, and far fewer good but "different" people and far fewer ordinary gentle people with open hearts and beautiful but non-commofiable dreams would die(either physically or spiritually)in that struggle. Life would be more than just existence and survival for the vast majority of this country and, indeed, the world.