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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bullies do not change unless their behavior is stopped. Maybe they will stop with her DS. They'll move on to the kid who lisps, or the girl with thin hair, or the new kid who can't speak English, or the one who may be gay.  Maybe PP decides that's not her problem.

But you see it is ALL if our problem. There are too many good, kind, smart kids who are driven to depression and worse by the hideous behavior of others, for which there should be ZERO tolerance. At the same time, with all the bully wanna-bes lurking around this website I am not surprised with the blame-the-victim, reaffirm-the-bully-supremacy, attitude shown here. [/quote]

More than 20% of kids say they have bullied others so we are talking about a lot of kids. Including kids who have been bullied - they bully other kids. Bullying is not so simple as just being bad evil kids. Kids especially in the middle school years get caught up in all kinds of social pressure and social politics combined with insecurity. They aren't all evil. My friend's son and one other boy in his class were the targets for bullying in their class. Instead of supporting each other, they then bullied each other. Neither are horrible kids - just kids feeling powerless, and insecure and desperate to gain social traction any way they could. Less than 5% of kids say they bully others on a regular basis. [/quote]

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