Posted by Dinah on October 3, 2011, at 15:23:40
In reply to Retribution, posted by hyperfocus on October 3, 2011, at 12:44:26
Ugh. No.
My only consolation is that I am nothing at all like the people who bullied me.
If I stooped to retribution, I would feel as much contempt for myself as I feel for them.
Tho I admit to feeling some understanding as to why people would do dreadful things to bullies. School is such an insular world. There isn't any of the perspective there is in the real world. It feels as if everyone is out to torment you, and it will never ever end. You can't get away from it.
What I'd like to see is administration and teaching staff being held accountable. They say that kids will be kids but that's nonsense. I'd like to see what would happen if there were bullies in the teacher's lounge. There would be a lawsuit the next day concerning a hostile workplace. How would the principal like to be followed around and tormented? Have scurrilous rumors started among his peers? Have his face slammed into a locker perhaps?
It will happen as long as those in charge allow it to happen. The teachers at my school were as much if not more to blame for what happened to me than the bullies were.
Children have the same right to be protected from a hostile workplace as adults do.
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