Gabe1
Ivory Tower Squabble EST 2011. WINDMILL SURVIVOR
I agree, the sad thing is you had to experience the bullying and harassment . I'm hoping, that all schools and workplaces, will be free of those things.
Work places for sure. Schools I don't know will ever be free of the incidents but hopefully will be far more reactive to complaints. Kids at that age are little twits trying to find themselves with peer pressure and hormones combined with real bad judgement, most of which their own conscious is telling them the bullying is wrong.
We have a CAPS program that teaches students how to be aware of bad things happening to them and how to report it. CAPS is wonderful in theory, it brings awareness to those that have been abused, bullied or assaulted. On the flip side it does make students a bit petty. We as a school board receive a breakdown each month for the reports of tardy, in school suspensions, out suspensions, expulsions (which the board has to vote yes to) and harassment complaints. In the fall when the schools all have CAPS presentations to the parents and students there is 4x the harassment complaints students file with the social worker for 2 months and then it tapers off.
As we look at the complaints so many of the complaints are kind of twisted and a leap by the complaint filer while a token amount have true validity. I'll take the weed out process though to reach the few students that are genuinely be harassed in some way. I just don't believe no matter how well we educate these kids it will every leave the schools, ya can't fix the hard wiring of those brains. I read recently that boys brains don't finish hard wiring until they are 23-25. Still I've found some of the girls to be far more methodical in their bullying techniques especially in middle school.