Tragic case of bullying. Thoughts?

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lestatdark said:
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That's what's happening in here. Recent education laws have supposedly restricted inside-school bullying mainly because of infractions, punishments, fines and ultimately, expulsion from the school in question. 

But instead of solving the problem, it has taken to outside the boundaries of school, which has only aggravated the problem tenfold. Now we see kids who were being bullyed on school, suffering the same agressions on pretty much everywhere, as there are no methods of control outside of the school recint.

The biggest issue is that the common public doesn't care about that, since we still have that mentality of "The weak have to bend over for the strong", hence no one gives a flying damn about bullyed kids, sometimes, not even their own parents. That was what lead to the suicidal 12 year old kid of last month, even his parents wouldn't believe him.

If no one has the consciouness to deal with this problem head on, how can be ever hope that children will ever learn that what they're doing is wrong and destructive, not only for the ones that they are bullying, but also to themselves. 

Over here in Finland, many people still have that same mentality, and to an extent, they're right: People should try to solve their own problems when it's reasonable. However, they also take it to a ridiculous degree - it seems to be a part of Finnish mentality to assume one should always solve personal problems by themselves, regardless of the problem and whether it can be done or not. I've known people who have died because they've been way too stubborn to ask for help when they needed it the most (ie. going to a hospital). But I digress.

Parents are a big factor in bullying, since they can both strive to stop or exasperate it. It's not exactly uncommon for parents to always take their kids side and outright refuse to believe their little sunshine could ever do anything wrong. On the other hand, they could also just not care what their kid does, or actually act to stop it, like my mom did. Then again, parents can't really do everything in this case, since outside of drastic measures like switching schools, there's only so much they can do by themselves - the school, the parents and the kids themselves have to be involved in the solution of this problem.

I'd personally also task the politicians to help with this as well, but when the government is busy dealing with great, pivotal and above all visible issues like the economys freefall and healthcare, what do a few suffering schoolchildren matter?

And many former bullies have wisened up with age, realized what they've been and stopped, becoming decent people. However, there are those who didn't or even liked what they did, and now they're either criminals, addicts or otherwise troubled people, or CEO's and politicians. Go f'n figure.