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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