Tell me Why and Tell me How

Bullying has become a major concern for school boards, parents, students, Police Services, provincial governments and, hopefully, you and I.

One action I have noticed in news reports of child suicide, is that parents say they reported the bullying and the school made no attempt to deal with those parents' complaints. One mother was told that her daughter was acting on a whim and that girls fight. That girl committed suicide last November.

Did you suffer bullying during your school years? Were you told not to be a tattle tale? Has that attitude become an immediate response still, to the point at which it still makes victims feel helpless? How can we change that attitude?

Some school boards expel the bullyand students who engage in hate motivated crime. Ontario is considering legislation to make a law that to that effect. Entire school body participation is demanded in some schools and student conferences involving the students of whole school divisions have been held in some areas to make every student aware of bullying.

Some schools suspend bullies. Doesn't that make the bully even angrier and likely to take that anger out on the victim? Why aren't the parents brought into the attempt to resolve the problem of the bully and the victim? Is there an excuse for school staffs to ignore or downplay any incidence of bullying?

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Social media is playing a major part. Facebook, Twitter and emails have become vehicles for bullying. It is hurtful enough for a victim to receive hate emails, but what if the hate is spread through the social media so the victim knows those hateful comments about them can be read literally around the world?

What would you do if your child was a victim of bullying? What would you do if you learned your child is a bully?