A Random Blog

It's been a while since I posted, mainly because my life has been really boring and suburban. With swim team practices, cats, and shopping, just nothing has really piqued my interest.

Although I suppose there are many things. Let me start with the anti-bullying campaign that the schools have imposed on the elementary school students. These are the same students who in first grade come up to me and say, "Mary and Lisa say they're the Queens of the world, and nobody else can be it."

Yet we'll bring the entire school into the All-Purpose Room and give them the idea that, in middle school and high school, if you are being bullied in any way, this will all be ok in the end. For example, if your middle school friends no longer want to be your friend, you can tell on them! Isn't that the greatest thing? You can go to the guidance counselor and say, "Mary and Lisa think they're the Queens of the world, and nobody else can be it. "

Well, the problem is that something happens to the brains of these kids who draw those anti-bullying pictures, and make the books that describe the different types of bullies and how to handle them. It's like that part of the brain disappears and they all become mean, evil bully-monsters.

So the kid who bullies discreetly, but then taunts the fat kid until the fat kid beats him to a pulp in school, he becomes the victim, just like that. Of course, the fat kid is wrong. But the fat kid was also provoked. And fat kids will always be provoked, no matter how much anti-bullying is taught at the elementary level. The reason? Only the kids who would never be the passive-aggressive bullies are the ones who are really soaking that in.

Sad but true, and history will repeat itself, no matter what they say.

I was going to go on about other things, but I won't. My other gripe of the week is substitute teaching. But that's for another day.