Well, i read a study where bulling videos were having the opposite effect. they were giving the bullies ideas on how to bully and creating more bulling.
In 4th grade in my Catholic parochial school I got in a big fight after school one day with my arch nemesis, another 10 year old in my class.
Sister Mary John, the school principal, sat me and my mother down in the office and started off with, “Well, we’d all been wondering when they would finally get this over with. I think they’ve both got it out of their systems.”
Then she looked at me as only an elderly nun can, and told me, “You have got it out of your system, haven’t you? Or do you think you and he will be at this again?”
If I hadn’t had it out of my system before, I did then.
Didn’t have another fight until 9th grade in public school.
Some thoughts here: did the video show some adequate resources that would be effective against the bully? Many schools prefer to sweep that little mess under the rug. Did the shooter see a gun as the only viable defense against the bully?, i.e. school did not discipline said bully? Finally, at what point did the bully become a credible lethal threat? Some of them do, you know.
I got into a “fight” in Catholic school in the 5th grade. Punk slapped the shortest girl in class when only the three of us were in the room. I backhanded him over a desk and into a wall. He caught up with me in the hallway a few seconds later, and we had a brief scuffle.
Principal (Dominican nun) also said, “Good. Good Christian men defend the helpless,” (also a military town during the late Cold War. . . ) and that was the end of it.
October 23rd, 2013 at 7:35 pm
Well, i read a study where bulling videos were having the opposite effect. they were giving the bullies ideas on how to bully and creating more bulling.
ideation – the creation of ideas.
October 24th, 2013 at 2:26 pm
In 4th grade in my Catholic parochial school I got in a big fight after school one day with my arch nemesis, another 10 year old in my class.
Sister Mary John, the school principal, sat me and my mother down in the office and started off with, “Well, we’d all been wondering when they would finally get this over with. I think they’ve both got it out of their systems.”
Then she looked at me as only an elderly nun can, and told me, “You have got it out of your system, haven’t you? Or do you think you and he will be at this again?”
If I hadn’t had it out of my system before, I did then.
Didn’t have another fight until 9th grade in public school.
October 24th, 2013 at 2:49 pm
I can’t understand why did they show the kids this video of a bullied kid with a gun. Of course some can get inspired by it.
October 25th, 2013 at 2:42 am
Some thoughts here: did the video show some adequate resources that would be effective against the bully? Many schools prefer to sweep that little mess under the rug. Did the shooter see a gun as the only viable defense against the bully?, i.e. school did not discipline said bully? Finally, at what point did the bully become a credible lethal threat? Some of them do, you know.
October 25th, 2013 at 4:12 pm
I got into a “fight” in Catholic school in the 5th grade. Punk slapped the shortest girl in class when only the three of us were in the room. I backhanded him over a desk and into a wall. He caught up with me in the hallway a few seconds later, and we had a brief scuffle.
Principal (Dominican nun) also said, “Good. Good Christian men defend the helpless,” (also a military town during the late Cold War. . . ) and that was the end of it.