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To: tejek who wrote (426908)	10/15/2008 9:25:04 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1575178

Ted, > Bullying doesn't happen because kids are different. Bullying happens because the bully is unhappy with him/herself and probably gets bullied at home. So he/she is looking for a scapegoat......kind of like Hitler blaming the Jews for Germany's problems. Tangent time. You and I are discussing two aspects of the same problem. Bullies are made in many different ways, of course. You're just pointing out one of them, i.e. the lone bully from a dysfunctional family. Yet more often than not, bullying involves ganging up on some poor guy or girl. I've seen cases of bullying where the perpetrators come from otherwise stable homes (relatively speaking, of course). Yet they still feel the need, even the peer pressure, to harass the victim. I could probably go into more depth regarding the darkness within the human heart, but I won't. Suffice to say that merely exposing kids to different cultures, different lifestyles, etc. isn't going to help, because unwillful ignorance isn't the root-cause. Too many cases of students who should know better and have been through the whole "diversity" curriculum still becoming the very type of people said education was supposed to prevent. Tenchusatsu

To: tejek who wrote (426908)	10/16/2008 9:02:39 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575178

I think most bullies don't come from homes like you describe. I recall seeing bullying incidents in school and the one common denominator is the bullied person was weak, sometimes weird looking. Often it was a group that did the picking on the weak person. The more he was picked on, the more people chimed in. Bullying comes from the fallen nature of humanity. BTW I was an observor. I wish I'd been an intervenor, but I wasn't. There wasn't any intervenor.