The persistent and pervasive impact of bullying in childhood and adolescence

I have run into parents who homeschooled their children and let them follow their curiosity. Some of the results I saw them get were completely out of this world. The kids taught themselves multiple languages and instruments.

I’m going to be faced with a similar choice with my kids. I will likely put them through public elementary school. Junior high I feel is abusive to children.

They are going through very complex hormonal and emotional changes and on top of this you dunk them in a tank surrounded by parasites who are garaunteed to act like savages.

With mobile phones and cameras.

I think I could see a strong argument to skip junior high and high school altogether and explore home school.

If anything like what happened to me happens to them (and I honestly didn’t have it that bad), I will seriously consider pulling them out.

The damage that was done to me lasted 15 years. That is unacceptable.

I personally had severe acne. Putting me in junior high to get taunted - irreparable self esteem damage.

Parents need to understand.

Let’s be honest. The elephant in the room is human beings get ahead by bullying Eachother and forming mobs and cliques.

This behavior has shown up at every job I have ever had. The dumber the people are the more likely they will use this “strategy” to get ahead. It is the go to dumb person strategy.

You can only avoid it often by working at smaller companies or developing much better social skills.

Just in case any psychologist are reading this, I would like to point out a type of bullying that I experienced but it is never talked about. It is basically sexual harassment by closeted homosexuals. One kind of assumes that homosexuals are these fey, thin mild mannered and fashionable kids, but in reality a lot of the fat nasty bullies were self hating closet homosexuals. I was always a target for them because I had this childhood disease that made me very thin and tall and pale, and apparently that is very attractive to those scumbags.

And they bullied me verbally and physically and always made me feel like shit. The worst part is I did not know what was happening to me because I did not know much about homosexuality (I grew up in a communist regime that preferred to sweep that stuff under the rug). So I grew up thinking there was something seriously wrong with me.

There is a lot of talk about bullying of gays in school, but there is also the problem of bullying of heterosexuals by homosexuals. To solve this, schools should teach their kids about homosexuality early. Probably as soon as puberty because by then these kids will be confronted by it. And while schools do teach that sexual harassments is wrong they should make it clear that the same holds true for homosexuals. I have a feeling that a lot of gays think they are special and above the general society rules about sexual harassment. Even in my forties I still get my drinks spiked from time to time! And most importantly teachers should be taught to recognize and prevent sexual harassment in the homosexual context as well as the hetero one.

While assigning them to read and discuss Lord of the Flies...