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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 am not a leading instructor or child psychiatrist, which might not really make a difference when it comes to issues like bullying, nor was I present to be aware of the precise context of what went down. All I know is what I recall when I was a kid: inspirational speakers would always come to our classes and drill into our heads that we were all totally different, and that to be different was okay! One guy entered and painted this mural for like an hour and a half, telling us how awesome we have been in between, as we all looked over one another in bewilderment as to why we were missing gym. Anti-bully campaigns enable you to go online and join petitions, and offer guidelines as to "what is a bully" and "why bullies do the things they do," which raises awareness yet doesn't seem to be truly proactive.

That's why a lot of individuals liked seeing this child piledrive the "bully" into the ground due to the fact that they related with him and wish they could've done exactly the same thing. I'm not saying that classes ought to hold 30 minutes every day for wrestling or combat (that would be fascinating however) but I believe there must surely be an effort to create much more social interaction between pupils, in order to stop kids from feeling unhappy. We once had thirty-five minutes scheduled right at the end of the day for "silent reading," with most of that time wasted gazing into space or watching our educators get a head start on grading our paperwork. Bullies would always exist, but their impact is directly related to the number of friends the person being picked on has or how lonely they really 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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