By: Tim White

Tim White — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 09:48:25 +0000

As a former teacher I am aware that the department’s priority with bullying is not action but rather covering their butt. My experience supports the comments of a well-known Victorian education researcher who remarked bullying among students reflects the culture of bullying among staff.
The AP at my last school took teachers – myself among them – to task for enforcing bullying policy. At a school camp where a YR. 7 student was experiencing anxiety about being away from home he responded by saying that the experience would “make a man of him”. Fortunately we were able to contact the boy’s mother who authorised his return home.
A proactive school counsellor who challenged the abuse he saw was himself bullied. Not only are students being bullied but, behind the scenes, teachers are too.
The school in question has a horrific history of violence and abuse among students. It displays the mandatory bullying posters but the culture is unchallenged. No-one has challenged the culture of abuse which exists among staff. Arguably, this culture is encouraged and
maintained by the Dept. and its administrators to terrorise teachers and students into compliance.

By: vikki bye

vikki bye — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:40:39 +0000

Bullying scares me, I have seen the results of what mild and middle bullying has done to my now sixteen year old. Sometimes I think it was not just the bullying but the ignorance of the teachers dealing with it. They had no idea and did not acknowledge what he was feeling. He felt that I was the only one who would fight and then he felt like a mummy’s boy. Schools suck as a social interactive arena and we place our vulnerable five year olds right in the middle. Why? because the Government said we have to. I hate it. He is clever but he’d rather not use it he just floats by his school years now. God I hate it.

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