Bullying In Schools

[Outinleftfield]

Can anyone explain how the capitalist system leads to bullying in schools?

[jake williams]

- By encouraging the organization of society along hierarchical, competive lines, where individuals sometimes violently compete with each other for power over each other.

- By leading to miserable conditions of life, where parents and other relatives take out the violence of society on their children, who themselves take it further to school.

- By creating a dysfunctional education system, with administrators unwilling and teachers unable to actually do the things which would be required to seriously deal with the problems of bullying.


All that said, I think a lot of the moral panic that surrounds things that go on in schools is often misplaced. A lot of things that get called "bullying" aren't.

[black magick hustla]

bullying is a really big problem. some kids are made their life hell. its not just some petty buisness man. i got bullied the shit out of when i was a kid

[jake williams]

bullying is a really big problem. some kids are made their life hell. its not just some petty buisness man. i got bullied the shit out of when i was a kid
I did too. I still hate Oprah.

[black magick hustla]

I did too. I still hate Oprah.
then why do you think people make a big deal out of it? i never watched oprah and i listen to grindcore so i prolly hate dat shit 2 but still man

[Tablo]

One kid at my school suffered from a genetic disease that severely hurt his communication capabilities. To say the least he was a nice, but terribly annoying kid. Unfortunately we have a lot of assholes at my school who decided to pick on him. The kid was pushed so far that he started making pipe bombs in his basement and planned on kill a lot of kids. I was on his list since I was a member of the school band that he, sadly, got kicked out of. He was caught and is now in prison. :/

It was a very sad incident and I wish someone who new about the harassment he received would have stood up for him, but it seems like no one did.

[Uppercut]

One kid at my school suffered from a genetic disease that severely hurt his communication capabilities. To say the least he was a nice, but terribly annoying kid. Unfortunately we have a lot of assholes at my school who decided to pick on him. The kid was pushed so far that he started making pipe bombs in his basement and planned on kill a lot of kids. I was on his list since I was a member of the school band that he, sadly, got kicked out of. He was caught and is now in prison. :/

It was a very sad incident and I wish someone who new about the harassment he received would have stood up for him, but it seems like no one did.

That's horrible. But yeah, annoying kids are difficult to deal with sometimes. There are some "slow" kids in a few of my classes and they really do annoy the Hell out of me. They're fine with communication and they act perfectly normal, but they think they're funny and cool whenever they make stupid jokes or comments.

[red cat]

Have any of you attended a school where typically the students with proletarian backgrounds are targeted, by both teachers and elite students ?

[The Vegan Marxist]

Maybe because within capitalism we are taught that we must compete to make a better of ones-self, & that there's a higher order of people than some others. The educational system promotes capitalism with full force, for instance: Say you get into a fight with someone because s/he was bullying you. Of course, you both get in trouble & suspended because you both fought each other, despite the fact that you were merely defending yourself. I, myself, have been in such situations before & the response that any teacher or principle would give me would be that I should've just not touched him & to get the teachers to handle it or them to handle it. Of course, this puts in effect the idea that one is dominate over you, & that you need higher authority to take care of it. We develop this mindset that these principles that we go by are right, that's if you actually followed the rules in the educational system :D, & that mindset develops further once you advance in your education & then after that as well. Capitalism plays a big part in the educational system & the bullying that takes place within it.