Saturday, May 7, 2011

Dealing With Bullies: To Beat Or Not To Beat

By Paul Nyhart


It's presently the second most well-known video on the web, behind a fifteen year old young girl singing regarding her favorite day of the week. Casey, the Aussie boy suspended for bodyslamming a kid for taunting, has inspired publishers to come up with their own renditions of the event, including this Street Fighter Zangief video clip. Casey never imagined he would be a glorified cult hero when he dropped the kid, but that is just what he's becoming, whether he likes it or not (word is that he doesn't mind 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 fantastic, but precisely how many of them are centered on kids that routinely receive a lot of crap from bullies? It is not rocket science, kids don't need information on which children are bullies, and kids can care less about their objectives or "exactly why bullies do what they do". The truth is, bullies become significantly less of a challenge when the children they pick on have a lot more friends, and most clubs are geared towards people that already have lots of friends. Bullies frequently pick on the new children because they're naturally alone. Exactly how many educational institutions have programs that are aimed 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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