Comments on: Bully for you http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/03/30/bully-for-you/ Celebrating Women of Style and Substance Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:41:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: LPC http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/03/30/bully-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-1724 LPC Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:45:05 +0000 http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=4789#comment-1724 Great story, Susan. And I believe that the Internet has made bullying even more possible and even more insidious. Wide access, insults make the insulter seem cool, etc. Great story, Susan. And I believe that the Internet has made bullying even more possible and even more insidious. Wide access, insults make the insulter seem cool, etc.

]]> By: Duchesse http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/03/30/bully-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-1722 Duchesse Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:11:46 +0000 http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=4789#comment-1722 I admire institutions (schools, workplaces) who post a code of conduct and enforce it. Why is this so difficult? If people who resort to physical or emotional abuse think it will be tolerated (or worse, admired) they will continue it, at least until they mature or heal enough to abandon these sad weapons. I have seen the damage bullying does and am not willing to support organizations who turn away from the issue. I admire institutions (schools, workplaces) who post a code of conduct and enforce it. Why is this so difficult? If people who resort to physical or emotional abuse think it will be tolerated (or worse, admired) they will continue it, at least until they mature or heal enough to abandon these sad weapons.

I have seen the damage bullying does and am not willing to support organizations who turn away from the issue.

]]> By: Geri http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/03/30/bully-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-1721 Geri Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:17:10 +0000 http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=4789#comment-1721 Hi Maureen and Susan, Thank you for clarifying that the mom did report it. Your story, Susan, is wonderful. Geri Hi Maureen and Susan,

Thank you for clarifying that the mom did report it.

Your story, Susan, is wonderful.

Geri

]]> By: Susan http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/03/30/bully-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-1720 Susan Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:51:28 +0000 http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=4789#comment-1720 I was devastated by this...I just knew from your post title what prompted it. The mother did report it (acc. to friends living in the area. I know very little personally.) I tire of hearing adults pooh-pooh this as "stuff" that happened when they were kids. No kidding. It wasn't acceptable then. When I was a little girl, the first phone call I made (without help--I was not authorized, ahem) was to the parents of a boy who was bullying another little boy in our school. I cannot imagine what the parents thought when they heard my little voice delivering the news of their son's terrible behavior. Nothing like a righteously worked-up 6-year old. (I was still polite, though.) Ever after, my mother asked me to please report to her so that she could make the phone calls. I make no apologies for "tattling" on bullies. Then or now. BTW, Ms. Campell made the news again recently for conduct most unbecoming (& illegal). Cheers. I was devastated by this…I just knew from your post title what prompted it. The mother did report it (acc. to friends living in the area. I know very little personally.)

I tire of hearing adults pooh-pooh this as “stuff” that happened when they were kids. No kidding. It wasn’t acceptable then. When I was a little girl, the first phone call I made (without help–I was not authorized, ahem) was to the parents of a boy who was bullying another little boy in our school. I cannot imagine what the parents thought when they heard my little voice delivering the news of their son’s terrible behavior. Nothing like a righteously worked-up 6-year old. (I was still polite, though.) Ever after, my mother asked me to please report to her so that she could make the phone calls. I make no apologies for “tattling” on bullies. Then or now.

BTW, Ms. Campell made the news again recently for conduct most unbecoming (& illegal).

Cheers.

]]> By: Maureen@IslandRoar http://blog.faboverfifty.com/2010/03/30/bully-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-1719 Maureen@IslandRoar Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:27:25 +0000 http://blog.faboverfifty.com/?p=4789#comment-1719 Yeah, apparently the mom did report it to the school. I think some administrators need to be held accountable as well. Yeah, apparently the mom did report it to the school. I think some administrators need to be held accountable as well.

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