Saturday, May 7, 2011

Dealing With Bullies: To Fight Or Not To Fight

By Paul Nyhart


It's currently the second most popular video on the internet, right behind a fifteen year old young girl singing regarding her most loved day of the week. Casey, the Australian young boy suspended for bodyslamming a kid for taunting, has stimulated editors to come up with their own renditions of the event, including this Street Fighter Zangief online video. Casey never thought he would be a glorified cult hero when he dropped the little one, but that is precisely what he is turning out to be, whether he likes it or not (word of mouth is that he doesn't worry about it).

Now, I'm not a leading educator or child psychiatrist, which might not really make a difference when it comes to issues like bullying, nor was I there to be aware of the precise context of what actually transpired. All I do know is what I remember when I had been a child: inspirational speakers would always go to our classes and drill into our heads that we were all completely different, and that being completely different was alright! One person came in and painted this mural for like an hour and a half, reminding us exactly how wonderful we have been in between, as all of us looked over each other in bewilderment why we were missing gym. Anti-bully campaigns enable you to use the internet and join petitions, and offer guidelines as to "what is a bully" as well as "why bullies do what they do," which increases understanding yet doesn't seem to be really proactive.

That's why plenty of individuals enjoyed seeing this child piledrive the "bully" into the ground simply because they related with him and hope they could've undertaken exactly the same thing. I'm not to imply that schools ought to reserve half an hour every day for wrestling or combats (that would be fascinating though) but I think there should certainly be an effort in order to develop more interpersonal relationship between students, in order to prevent kids from feeling alone. We used to have thirty-five minutes set aside right at the end of the day for "silent reading," with most of that time spent staring into space or watching our teachers get a head start on grading our paperwork. Bullies would continually exist, yet their effect is proportional to how many friends the individual being targeted has or how lonely they truly feel.

Social clubs are good, but how many of them tend to be intended for children who repeatedly take a lot of crap from bullies? It is not too difficult, children don't need details on which children are bullies, and kids can care less about their objectives or "exactly why bullies do the things they do". The fact of the matter is, bullies become much less of an issue when the kids they target have a lot more friends, and most clubs are centered on individuals that presently have plenty of friends. Bullies often target the new kids because they're obviously alone. Exactly how many schools have programs which are directed towards assimilating new students?

The Street Fighter Video is wonderful as it creatively, and more or less freakishly, transforms Street Fighter right into a "realistic depiction of a genuine event." But most notably, it shows what anti-bullying campaigns are lacking: authority, a key figure who takes a stand and who everyone could rally around and not feel lonely.




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