by Philip G. Coggin

Created on: September 20, 2009   Last Updated: September 23, 2009

Bullying in our schools.

When I was a young man at school bullying was a problem then too, I do not feel that it was as big a problem as it is today.

Although it is almost fifty years since I left school I have to ask why are we still in a situation were our kids are kept from their education, because bullying prevails in our schools still.

What the hell are we doing in our country where we allow this problem to survive, fifty years is a long time and the numbers of children who have suffered the torture of being bullied are incalculable but more importantly totally unacceptable.

Have we gone too far with this so-called PC attitude, our teachers and other authority now powerless to address the problems? So what has changed in fifty years!

Bullying is often a means to an end for the children who bully; they are often uneducated themselves or have some learning difficulties, often coming from families with other problems too. No I am not making excuses for these people here, what I am doing is saying clearly exactly what has been know of the reasons for the basis of some of these problems and this has been known for many years.

So! If we are aware of the causes in some instances and we clearly are, why the hell do we still seem to actually not be tackling this problem head on?

While we continue to spend our time talking, thinking, discussing, trying to find reasons and also trying to follow that PC line, we are seriously letting our children down.

Our kids are being sent to schools where they are supposed to learn, they are being sent to comply with a law that demands that they attend a school or some place of learning for a set number of their former years, yet having said all of this we allow them to be beaten-up tortured and generally abused by other pupils.

One word I rarely hear associated with bullying is ASSAULT, when you threaten, hit or generally make someone feels uncomfortable or frightened for his or her own safety, then assault is the act here.

When the perpetrator of these ridiculous acts is allowed to constantly feel safe with what they are doing then they will continue to do it.

Ask any child who has been bullied, even ask an adult who suffered this kind of trauma, they will tell you how frightening it is/was. We loose many children because they take their own life or they suffer serious illness associated with being bullied; it too reduces their capacity to learn. Why should not all children as of right have the same chances?

I know from experience

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