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December 1, 2006, 9:59 am PST
11/24 Great School Debate
Quote From: mammato4boysIf I may jump into this conversation. :)
Also, you said, it is cruel forcing children to be with people they don't like everyday!
This will someday happen to you, when you are older. You will most likely meet and probably have to deal with, individuals you really are not fond of. So, when this happens in your teenage years it is a little easier to make adjustments and know how to handle those situations. Especially when I guess your doing it on " a regular everyday basis"
There are many, myself included, who believe that as an adult we are better suited to deal with situations like peer pressure, bullies, etc...
I've often wondered at the statement, "Children need to be bullied so they can learn how to deal with it." It really makes no sense to me.
Perhaps adults should travel to the bad part of town to learn how to defend ourselves?
I've often been quite puzzled by the assertion "Children need to be bullied so they can learn how to deal with it". I've found it quite odd and difficult to articulate why. First of all, Who do the bullies need to be bullied by so they can learn to deal with it? :) Are bullies part of the curriculum? One would think they're hired hand by the school for all the lauding they get as being "necessary teachers".
This idea being insisted upon and repeated tends to give an awfully big nod of approval to the bullies as being the people to learn from. They're practically given the green light to "go get 'em tiger!" so people can learn from them!
I have never heard, "Bullies need to go to school so they can learn to deal with people who have had steady models of appropriate human behaviour to learn from them." No, it's always the other way around.
In no other context that I am aware of, is bullying seen as something to be learned from or as being "necessary." Not at work, home, in a marriage, on a vacation.
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