I'm already calling BS on this. Its such an easy and cheap victimhood excuse. Yes, there may be 1-2 kids in every school who will make snide comments, but unless its an out-of-control inner city school, present kids and teachers bend over backwards to befriend and accommodate kids who are different. Its been the public school mantra for 30 years now.
The heart of the problem is the child's own depression, mental illness, and above all, the adults around him abdicating all responsibility for his well-being.
I don’t agree. Bullying has always been a big problem in schools and perhaps even a bigger one today with all the social media. Look at all these school shootings. Most of those kids that did it were bullied and outcasted.
If a boy goes to school and acts feminine, he’s going to be bullied. Kids are cruel. And the schools do practically nothing about bullying. In fact, most schools will punish kids for fighting back against a bully. So they are stuck in a no-win situation.
I call complete and total bullshit on that stupid crap.
I live in north Texas. There are kids here who get bullied just for making good grades.
Can the Pollyanna make believe school idea.
While this IS a good sentence; it is not arranged properly:
The heart of the problem is the adults around him abdicating all responsibility for his well-being; which created the child's own depression, mental illness...
Schools are run like prisons with the bullies on top. Next to nothing if not actually nothing is done about their abuse of other children and, as they run in packs, there is little a lone child can do to stop them.
It need not be an inner city school. It can be your normal every day school in a middle class neighborhood. Knew one where a young boy was so abused by a pack of girls that he started carrying a knife to protect him self. Sadly he was the one who got in trouble.
This was as far away from an inner-city as you could get. It took a major public outcry before the school grudgingly admitted that the boy had been physically assaulted more then once by the pack and had sustained doctor visit worthy injuries. The attacks had become more and more violent and the school tried to say they had "counseled" one of the girls and so everything was hunky dory.
The heart of the problem is the child’s own depression, mental illness, and above all, the adults around him abdicating all responsibility for his well-being.
Pretty much nailed it, right there. The adults around him being the most culpable, IMHO. As for the school, all it would have taken is a meeting with the administration, especially these days and the problem would have been handled, if it even existed.