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According to Medical Xpress:
The negative social, physical and mental health effects of childhood bullying are still evident nearly 40 years later, according to new research by King's College London. The study is the first to look at the effects of bullying beyond early adulthood, and is published in the American Journal of Psychiatry.
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(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday April 19 2014, @02:43PM
That's a very good point, (note: for those requiring more of an explanation, see Kitty Genovese, [wikipedia.org] the Bystander Effect, [wikipedia.org] and Diffusion of Responsibility [wikipedia.org]) and I think it's the best way to handle the more black-and-white cases like when a jock pushes a shy nerd.
School staff should very involved in stopping bullying, but the problem with that is, nowadays they start intruding into students' lives outside of school, which I am personally against. As an example, punishing a student in school for posting something about another student on Facebook after school hours. Of course, a lot of that would be simplified if schools disallowed personal gadgets like cell phones and properly locked down their fucking internets. You and I didn't need fucking cell phones in school, and neither does the next generation.
I have been on both ends of bullying (though at different times and in different contexts, it wasn't like I was bullied and then immediately turned around and displaced it on somebody else) and understand it pretty well. When telling my dad about me being bullied, he said, "If that kid pushes you one more time, you bust him in the chops!" Nowadays parents would be referred to CPS for telling their kids something like that, but the thing about bullies is that people don't often actually challenge them. Befriending people who bullied me was easy because I thought school was drudgery and bullshit even at 9 years old, and already used curse words and told dirty jokes when teachers weren't around. I wouldn't fight my first bully until age 14, and even though the fight was considered a tie, I won a lot of respect for sticking up for myself, especially since the bully was a good foot more tall. It was a great feeling, the bully's friends would come up to me in the hallway and fist-bump me.
Nowadays in the nanny-state teachers and authorities are more involved, but there are going to be times when mommy and daddy and authority will not be able to solve your problem. At that point, you can stand up for yourself, or you can hang your shoulders and bend over and say, "Okay" as you passively take everything your regretful life shoves you up the ass.