I read the story. This story is what I’m commenting on. I haven’t taken the liberty of making up a different story. If you were commenting on some other story in which the child was guilty of something, you didn’t make that clear.
I also haven’t taken the liberty of creating a new definition for the word “bullying.” If you want to know what I mean by that word, or any other word I use, look it up in the dictionary. I already explained how that word applies to this situation. You keep trying to negotiate the definition with me, as if I have the authority to change it for you, and as if the morality of punishing a child with humiliation for something he has no control over somehow hinges on the meaning of the word “bullying.” If you changed the definition of every word in the English language, bullying would still be wrong. If you translated this story into Chinese, bullying would still be wrong. If you don’t like the word “bullying” as it applies to this story, feel free to use any word of your own choosing. It won’t change what happened, or make it right, but it might help you cope.
I don’t know why you’re having such a hard time understanding these basic facts. Normal people learn these things when they’re very young children. Most of the children in the classroom in this story probably know better than to bully anyone, especially someone smaller and weaker than themselves. It’s baffling to me that anyone can reach adulthood without learning this simple truth. I know there some of you out there, but I can only imagine the circumstances that would create such a mindset.
Again, not a single word to logically support your position. You continue to refuse to provide YOUR definition of bullying because you know the second you do I can rip it to shreds.
My point about the child is that you keep referring to him as innocent without a single shred of evidence that the child was not complicit in this case of tardiness or the previous 5 events that occurred since the beginning of the school year.
To this point your argument consists of “It is bullying because I say it’s bullying”, “It’s wrong because I say it’s wrong” and “If I say it’s true then everybody agrees that it’s true.” Not very convincing arguments.