Lunch Time Poll on Bullying

[shadowkat]

This is a quick poll adjacent to my last post on bullying. Bullying in case there is confusion is defined as teasing, verbal or physical in nature, in which the victim is made to feel shame, fear, pain, insecure, or humiliation. It includes but is not limited to - being called names, having insects put in your food or textbooks, or other creatures, poked fun at, etc. (It is not just being hit or pummeled physically. Mental and emotional bullying is as bad as physical bullying, and leaves scars, they just aren't always quite so visible.) [ETC: Bullying includes teasing, excluding in a way that is obvious - ie four people in a class, three group together and whisper about the fourth while they are there, and it can be by siblings or teachers or fellow students or parents.]

(Sort of hope people will respond. I hate doing polls for this reason. It's not like a post - if no one responds, no big. But polls...sigh. )

[Poll #1631388]

Comments

[rahirah]

I said no because I was never consistently bullied that I can remember. There were a few isolated incidents - a boy jumped me once on the way home from school and clamped a hand over my mouth - I have NO idea what he thought he was doing, but I bit the hell out of his finger and he was so surprised he let me go and never bothered me again. And once some kids threw rocks at me (I told my mom, she told the principal, they got landed on, the end.)

Which I've always taken as evidence that if parents and teachers DO get together and address the problem, it can make a difference.