Can bullying be stopped
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OF COURSE NOT!
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Stopped? No. Reduced? Yes. Maybe if the education system stop worrying about SAT scores (meaningless numbers) benefits and how "healthy" the school lunches are and focused on stopping kids from being tormented in a place that their forced to go to by law, then maybe the problem might get a little better. Side: Possible
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I agree. If teachers and school officials worried less about the SAT's, which are not a test for the students, but a test to see how the teacher taught the student, they would be able to focus on the needs of the children's social life as an important development factor. Instead they choose to wait until kids either kill themselves or kill others until they take action. Bullying needs to be stopped, but it can't be, because with every new generation comes new fads that either create or destroy a child socially. Schools need to take a more effective way of managing the problems of student before incidents occur. Side: Possible
it is almost impossible to stop bullying completely considering there are so many variations of bullying. Just look at the instances of cyber bullying present on the Net. What would be a more plausible solution is to reduce them, with effective punishment imposed on the act, or with moral suasion by teaching that bullying is wrong. Side: OF COURSE NOT!
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Sadly I'm not sure if any terrible aspects of human nature can be stopped completely. Bullying is extremely hard to regulate, partly because bullies are very smart and sneaky, and partly because there is no set definition of bullying, and so lots of people get accused of being oversensitive when they claim to be bullied. Still, that doesn't mean something shouldn't be done about it. Side: OF COURSE NOT!
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I don't think bullying can be stopped altogether but it can be kept in check. For what it's worth, I don't think it should be stopped altogether. A certain amount of bullying is helpful, because our kids won't grow up to live in Smurf Village; they'll grow up to live in a real world, where they will have to learn to stick up for themselves. Dealing with difficult and confrontational people will always be a fact of life. My brother home schools his children and I don't think it's a good idea for that reason. He thinks he's protecting his kids. I think he's making them weak. Kids need to go to school and fight with the other kids. It's how they learn to deal with conflict. My brother's kids are going to go away to college with no idea that difficult people even exist, let alone how they should deal with them. Another brother of mine sends his kids to public school. And just the other day, my nephew was complaining about some bigger kid picking on him. I told him "This was you gotta do: You have to kick him in the balls. He'll stop once he knows that messing with you has its own set of challenges." Side: OF COURSE NOT!
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