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*As schools and students attempt to stop bulling and promote inclusiveness, some parents and politicians are doing their best to sabotage those efforts. | *As schools and students attempt to stop bulling and promote inclusiveness, some parents and politicians are doing their best to sabotage those efforts. | ||
Children are not homogeneous. This is an indisputable fact. Children come in all shades and colors, shapes and sizes, stages of development and personalities, religions and ideologies, ethnic origins, financial backgrounds, and yes, even sexual orientations and gender identities. Children are a reflection of the society in which they originate. A society where even adults have extreme difficulty peacefully coexisting and yet all these diverse children are sent off to a school building for the main part of their day and expected to, "just get along". Of course, that doesn't happen but teachers and school administrators are sill responsible for maintaining order and a safe environment for all their students. In recent decades, school bulling and violence have become an increasing problem, often with exceedingly tragic outcomes. While perhaps not epidemic, School shootings should never have happened even once. And yet, a number of individual and mass shootings have been reported in the last several years alone. Obviously, shootings are an extreme outcome. It is an outcome that is often produced by the the physical and verbal abuse as well as the feelings of alienation that school children inflict on each other, which often comes in the form of bulling.According to the US government website "Stop Bulling", 12 of 15 school shooting cases in the 1990s, the shooters had a history of being bullied. However, it is not the only effect of bulling. | Children are not homogeneous. This is an indisputable fact. Children come in all shades and colors, shapes and sizes, stages of development and personalities, religions and ideologies, ethnic origins, financial backgrounds, and yes, even sexual orientations and gender identities. Children are a reflection of the society in which they originate. A society where even adults have extreme difficulty peacefully coexisting and yet all these diverse children are sent off to a school building for the main part of their day and expected to, "just get along". Of course, that doesn't happen but teachers and school administrators are sill responsible for maintaining order and a safe environment for all their students. In recent decades, school bulling and violence have become an increasing problem, often with exceedingly tragic outcomes. While perhaps not epidemic, School shootings should never have happened even once. And yet, a number of individual and mass shootings have been reported in the last several years alone. Obviously, shootings are an extreme outcome. It is an outcome that is often produced by the the physical and verbal abuse as well as the feelings of alienation that school children inflict on each other, which often comes in the form of bulling. According to the US government website "Stop Bulling", 12 of 15 school shooting cases in the 1990s, the shooters had a history of being bullied. However, it is not the only effect of bulling. | ||
https://www.stopbullying.gov/bullying/effects | https://www.stopbullying.gov/bullying/effects |
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Children are not homogeneous. This is an indisputable fact. Children come in all shades and colors, shapes and sizes, stages of development and personalities, religions and ideologies, ethnic origins, financial backgrounds, and yes, even sexual orientations and gender identities. Children are a reflection of the society in which they originate. A society where even adults have extreme difficulty peacefully coexisting and yet all these diverse children are sent off to a school building for the main part of their day and expected to, "just get along". Of course, that doesn't happen but teachers and school administrators are sill responsible for maintaining order and a safe environment for all their students. In recent decades, school bulling and violence have become an increasing problem, often with exceedingly tragic outcomes. While perhaps not epidemic, School shootings should never have happened even once. And yet, a number of individual and mass shootings have been reported in the last several years alone. Obviously, shootings are an extreme outcome. It is an outcome that is often produced by the the physical and verbal abuse as well as the feelings of alienation that school children inflict on each other, which often comes in the form of bulling. According to the US government website "Stop Bulling", 12 of 15 school shooting cases in the 1990s, the shooters had a history of being bullied. However, it is not the only effect of bulling. https://www.stopbullying.gov/bullying/effects On November 6th, Spiked news in the UK ran this story, Keep gender-identity ideology out of schools A modern book burning: LGBTQ-themed books removed from North KC, Liberty schools Iowa School Board Candidate Wants to Share The Name of Every Kid Who Checks out Pro-LGBTQ Books New Jersey School District Omits Librarians from Review of Several LGBTQ+ Library Books Tennessee bill seeks to ban books supporting, addressing LGBTQ lifestyles, issues in public schools
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