Bullying? I’m probably older than most in here. I was in school in the ‘40’s and 50’s and scraps between boys was a normal thing from time to time. Just part of growing up. Bullys were taken care of when it got carried away and taken care of by the kids. In high school we had one car club that were known as bullys. One day all the 5 other car club members got together and confronted the Commanders...the bullys....and told them “That’s enough”. The Commanders were bad dudes but when we all got together, they couldn’t do anything about it. They backed down and became somewhat sane. You can’t rely on the schools to take care of bullys. The kids will do it if you allow them to start becoming young men and stop tying their hands and making the average kid the bad guy. This is crazy.
In today’s PC culture, it starts earlier than high school. When my sons were 3 years old (20 years ago), they were playing in the yard with some toy guns .. a neighbor flatly refused to let his kid so much as touch the toy gun and indicated there was something wrong with me for letting mine use them. One of those tsk tsk moments.
Seemed to me that there really is a more aggressive gene in males and might as well let them take out that aggression with toy guns at a young age. My sons also fought incessantly with each other. Now, each can handle himself and his aggression in any tense/conflict situation quite well without snapping or resorting to violence.
This is a good point.
The current “anti-violence” campaign in the schools actually promotes bullying. Bullies know how to provoke and play the system. When someone who’s bullied fights back *they* become the bad guy. This gives bullies free reign because the bullied have no recourse.