Part of the public outrage stemmed from how Berry said her principal responded to the incident. She said the principal told her she'd provoked the attack by telling the student she would defend herself.
The principal's first reaction was to blame the victim. All this liberal emphasis on children's self-esteem has produce not healthy, happy children but dangerously narcissistic, self-absorbed thugs.
I once had a student tell me that something I said or did (don’t remember what it was) was bad for their self esteem. I told them that self esteem was not created by what others said to you, but by what you attempted and accomplished. She looked at me like I was crazy.
susie