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Originally posted by True_Moose:
ratting them to teachers, while the encouraged "solution" isn't far behind, there is still a playground sense of honor.
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To me the playground sense of honour helps the bullies and makes it worse. Now you have a situation where the bully can do whatever they like and make some kid's life a living hell, and they can say 'you tell anyone and you'll be breaking the code of honour', basically giving them a
'legitimate' reason to bully them more if they do tell. So the kid not only has to endure torment from the bully, but if they tell, also the ostracising of most of their classmates. The whole concept of protecting people like bullies because of some idea of 'honour' is ludicrous! If people are beaten or raped or mugged out in the real world and they know their attacker are they encouraged to keep silent so the perpetrator won't get into trouble? And yet if a bully beats up one of their classmates or engages in insidious mental and emotional abuse leading them to fake illnesses to miss school and totally withdraw into themselves and someone asks them who's responsible the honourable thing is to say 'no one'? What rubbish [img]graemlins/idontagreeatall.gif[/img] .