National poll conducted on bullying...results are in

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http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/10/04/n ... ed/?hpt=T2

you might have to cut and paste...if you cant load it up..it is on CNN front page under Anderson coopers blog (ac360)

very insightful, it shows that a large percentage of adults concider it a "minor problem"
what I find very interesting is that a small percentage of teens say they have not been impacted by bullies, nor their friends...gee I wonder if they ARE the bullies.

Well I thought this poll could verify what we aspies already knew but the world is just now starting to address.

i would think the only humans who believe being a bully's victim is no big deal are either bully's themselves are were never tormented by them. i'm with you mr bean......been there.

long ago, in a galaxy far far away, one such victim had an opportunity for a little payback. he took it. risky. clean escape. who say's revenge isn't sweet?

I think the problem with bulling is that not only do school faculties not stop bulling, they actualy enforce it. next to asking a question the teacher couldn't answer, "distracting the other students" (i.e. there are too many bullies to punish, we'll just punish the kid they're making fun of and the problem will go away) was the number one reason I got kicked out of classes. Once, I even got a week OSS for "Not removing myself from the situation" (Some bullies where making fun of me for being Obsessive-Compulsive and I went up to them and demanded they apologize).

Another problem is the safe schools act. "I'll kill you" isn't something bullies say, it's something kids who are being bullied say as a kneejerk reaction. the safe schools act prevents kids from handling the problem themselves, and the faculty sure as hell isn't going to be bothered.

I read about a kid who got expelled for punching a bully in the face, though the faculty did nothing when the bully knocked the books out of that kid's hands every day for months straight.

furthermore, when bullies are punished, if they're even punished, it isn't public. my high school principal constantly expected me to take his word that justice had been done. even if he wasn't lying (and he probably was) that really isn't going to stop the 300 other bullies who aren't stupid enough to pick on me right in front of him! MAKE AN EXAMPLE OF THEM!! ! sure it's barbaric, but it ****ing works! let's see some heads on pikes!

...metaphorical pikes, that is.

I was not bullied but I am hyper empathetic so if I witness it I actually feel the pain as if it was my own. I can't imagine how any rational person could not think it was a problem.

Tensu....Anderson cooper of CNN is doing a continuous story on bullying...you may want to contact him on what you told us. If anything, you will get some justice if the story goes public.

Imagine if a big gym teacher bullied other teachers.

He insulted other teachers. He groped women teachers. He made the math teacher pay him protection money and he shoved an English teacher's head down the toilet.

Is there any difference? Assault is assault whether it is done by a 15 year old student or a 25 year old teacher.

So why do you think that schools dont do anything about this???
put in the light of your teacher analogy, I am sure if all that happened to them, the results would be much different.

I personally think it has to do with social programming. A teacher told my mom which kids in her class she was sure was going to end up working at mcdonald's when they grow up and which ones were going to college. This was a third grade teacher. Their fate was determined in third grade...how is this teachers allowing bullies free reign of the schools any different, ever seen a teacher's kid get bullied?

in our school, a mostly preppy school...the bullies were the rich folks kid's who could do no wrong in the school's view.

but in most school's...like you said the rough kids end up as dead beats...kinda like the father on married with children.

Monisori school's are really good for one on one with students. Public schools are just fubar-ed. If I ever am insane enough to have a child, I would either homeschool or do monisori, but putting a child through public school is in my view inhumane.