Bullying starts in the family home
IS it any wonder children are turning classrooms into bullying rings when they are being schooled by Mum or Dad in how to be thugs?
Kids aren’t born to bully. This is learned behaviour.
Let me start by giving you two examples of role modelling gone wrong.
Case one: A seven-year-old boy launches a violent assault on three fellow Year 2 students, punching them and screaming during morning tea break. The same boy is earlier removed from class for being disruptive – banging his head on the desk and kicking the chair of the child in front.
Why the unchecked aggression? Before school, while the boy is eating breakfast, his father gets angry at the family cat, so angry that he picks up the animal and smashes it against the kitchen wall, breaking its neck and letting it fall to the floor dead before he sits back down to finish breakfast – as if nothing has happened.
The child, with only seven years of life experience, is left to process this horrific incident on his own and, not surprisingly, he struggles.
Case two: A five-year-old boy is reported for trying to ON THE NT BEING HOME TO A $20 BILLION SOLAR FARM
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Who’s at fault? The boy’s father, because he’s been exposing the child to pornography after school in a skewed bonding experience. Go Dad! Great job teaching your child to see women as sex objects and to encourage him to perform unacceptable sexual acts. And well done on the early sexualisation of a five-year-old.
These cases occurred about 20 years ago in a high-achieving private school in Queensland. power? Oh that’s right! We’re still living in the past and using old technology such as coal powered energy. Andrew Dawson Why not just put solar panels on EVERY house. BJ Kelly
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These two little “bullies” would now be young adults. They might even have children of their own and I shudder to think of the vicious cycle they might be perpetuating.
But this is the reality – and these cases are not isolated.
My educator mates tell similar stories today of boys and girls who are unruly and virtually unlikeable until you scratch beneath the surface and discover they are products of neglectful or abusive homes. This holds for both independent and state schools, and affluent and poorer catchments.
So while there are many
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