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Survey Question on bullying

October 13, 2010 by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) at 06:37 AM

SQE’s study of the demographic characteristics of Ontario families who choose private schools showed that the top reason for choosing private schools common to parents at both academically-defined and religiously-defined schools was safety.  Bullying is often the reason why parents move their children to other public schools or into private schools.  The next survey question asks about your personal experience with bullying either with your own child or grandchild, or friend’s child,  for instance.   There is an opportunity to leave your comments as well by clicking on View Results.  Results will be posted in the next newsletter. 

Last term’s survey question asked readers “Do you support school vouchers?”  79% said YES and 21% said NO

Comments

Here is a timely link titled - Canada’s Child Soldiers. It caught my attention, and to my surprised it is advocating a solution, many parents of bullied children would like to see. Very difficult to do in today’s society, when adults expect our children to policed themselves, even though the vast majority of children do not have the skills or abilities to do the policing. without adult supervision.

“For years, schools and community groups have offered bullying prevention programs aimed at getting children to understand bullying and to prevent it amongst their peers.  But while we’ve made children more responsible for self-policing, adults have become less responsible. Numerous studies have shown that adult intervention and supervision is the biggest factor in reducing bullying. Instead of adding more supervision, we’ve asked children to fight for themselves. And they lack the tools to do so. Despite studies that have shown that 75 per cent of children will say that telling a bully to stop is the right thing, less than 40 per cent of those self-report as having actually intervened.”

The solution is, “What does work is immediate adult intervention with swift and seen consequences.”
http://www.thewesternstar.com/Opinion/Columns/2010-10-13/article-1842165/Canadas-child-soldiers/1

For the people who have said no to the question, “Do you know of a child who has been bullied in school to the point that his or her parents had to intervene?”, rethink your answer, keeping in mind that today’s present bully policies are asking our children to take on responsibility, that is normally reserved for the adult world, and opting for a world where adults become less responsible, for their children’s actions.

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