People are entitled to feel very angry at the school that reportedly allowed a young Japanese boy to be bullied to the point of suicide. But it is incredibly important that the anger is expressed in a non-threatening way.
Firstly, those concerned should call for disciplinary measures for all those involved (including students, staff and administrators).
Next, they should be encouraging their children and close friends to speak out against bullying whenever they find themselves to be bystanders.
Finally, they should take an interest in how their local schools deal with bullying situations.
One thing they should not do is threaten the school. This course of action is tantamount to dealing with bullying by becoming the bully:
THE suicide of a 13-year-old boy in central Japan has sparked a series of bomb threats against his school.
Threats have also been made against the local government over claims of negligence in the case, police said.
The boy’s death has snowballed into a national scandal amid reports that bullies routinely forced him to “practice” killing himself before he took his own life, and that his teacher brushed off the abuse as a joke.
A letter sent to the boy’s school in Shiga prefecture threatened that the building would be bombed unless the pupils and teachers involved apologise, local authorities said.
Click here to read my post ‘Child Commits Suicide Due to Alleged Systematic Bullying and Inept Teachers’.
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August 11, 2012 at 11:02 am |
I still don’t understand why the students who bullied him don’t see that anything wrong happened here. The news said that in court, the three (?) bullies stated that they were just “having fun”. I don’t quite get why there were no consequences for them.
Most people don’t see that they did anything wrong until they get caught, meaning there are consequences . Maybe that’s why the students who did the bullying still don’t understand that they did anything wrong. They really don’t seem to consider the nature of their act as having any consequences. I, even though I am American, am a Buddhist, and I strongly believe in consequences, which we refer to as “cause and effect” or “What goes around comes around.”
Generally, we do whatever we want to do until and unless something happens to stop us from doing it again. That is the nature of the human spirit. We are basically animals and we need training. I work with a great many people, adults, and children, some who have disabilities, and some who are emotionally and spiritually “disabled”.
I sometimes watch specific students who don’t seem to be able to “turn it off” when it comes to bullying behavior. Most of them end up in jail. We even have a youth detention center in our town who have children as young as eight years old who are locked up for this type of behavior.
August 11, 2012 at 11:12 am |
By-the-way, I have been following this story for weeks, waiting to see if you guys are going to do anything about it other than to sigh and say it’s just too bad. For some reason, it’s really important to me to see what happens next. And thanks for the translation.
I teach in an American public school, in a class for people with severe disabilities. It’s amazing to see what people who have NO disabilities do with all of their well-functioning bodies and minds! The kids I take care of can’t even speak. And people who can speak spend their time doing garbage like this!