Free From Fear
By forest_for_ever
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Free From Fear
Blackboard, chalk scored
Whiteboard, black marked
The jungle’s just as forbidding
A harsh remark
A sly under-table kick
A pellet spat and flicked
‘I’m only kidding!’
Lurking in the shadows
Hidden from periphery
The coward misery bent
stalks a lonely victim
Only those who won’t fight back
Are suitable as prey.
Playfully they reel them in
A hopeful promise
Of friendship just out of reach
Then on a piece of tormented string
The mocking and the bullying begins again.
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Very perceptive. I guess the
Very perceptive. I guess the bullies sadly are often really lonely insecure people, and making matters worse for themselves.
Only those who won’t fight back Are suitable as prey. and those who show they're hurt by it?
Rhiannon
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A knotty and complex problem,
A knotty and complex problem, Graham. The eradication of bullying should be a priority for the education authorities. If not stopped at source it will develop in later life into hooliganism and criminality. A lot is already being done by schools to tackle gender issues and negative attitudes such as racism so it make sense to me that bullying should be part and parcel of the curriculum in teaching social intercourse and behaviour.
Best, Luigi
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Was very interested to read
Was very interested to read this, and the comments. When I was classroom assistant it was much easier to see problems than for teachers. Also children seemed to see us as a go between for them and teachers. But there were lots of cutbacks so there was only money to have special needs assistants only for individual children. Do you have someone in every class just to help generally and listen to problems?
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