Bullying
I do not remember bullying when I was in school. Like I said, I was raised in the old days and people seemed more tolerant. Not any drug babies that I knew of!!! In my school, we had one (and only one) student who would be classified as special ed. But we didn't have special ed back then. NO ONE would ever have made fun of her for any reason. I think we were all protective of her. I don't see that at all nowadays. How sad. I am not sure when I first recall recognizing bullying at school. It is now so serious that we have to have assembies on the subject. We have to be diligent in tracking what appears to be bullying. On a sad note, we do not have support at our school to help us with bullying. I handle it myself because the administration does not want to confront parents because she might have problems with the parents of the bully and his or her family and because it would give her a black name with higher administration (fear of too many negative comments that might make her lose her job). This is the saddest thing at my school. I cannot believe that someone would put his or her own interest before the safety and well-being of students. What I started doing was to document ALL my reports of bullying with copies of everything and with getting info from the students directly and making those comments available to the principal. For me, this has done the trick; but I wonder how many other teachers don't do this. I want things documented that I did my part, but the admin failed! Sorry that I have rambled, but this is a SORE subject with me!!!!!!
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