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11:20am October 14, 2013

➸ Youth more likely to be bullied at schools with anti-bullying programs

clatterbane:

Anti-bullying initiatives have become standard at schools across the country, but a new UT Arlington study finds that students attending those schools may be more likely to be a victim of bullying than children at schools without such programs. The findings run counter to the common perception that bullying prevention programs can help protect kids from repeated harassment or physical and emotional attacks. “One possible reason for this is that the students who are victimizing their peers have learned the language from these anti-bullying campaigns and programs,” said Seokjin Jeong, an assistant professor of criminology and criminal justice at UT Arlington and lead author of the study, which was published in the Journal of Criminology. “The schools with interventions say, ‘You shouldn’t do this,’ or ‘you shouldn’t do that.’ But through the programs, the students become highly exposed to what a bully is and they know what to do or say when questioned by parents or teachers,” Jeong said.


Surprise! And adult abusers often learn to use therapy language against the people they’re harming.

I would also suspect the tendency to say, “Look, here are our policies! We obviously couldn’t have a bullying problem here!”, as a substitute for actually doing anything effective to change the conditions which support bullying behavior. :(

That’s what anti bullying policies scare me.

Even in our school which didn’t have one the bullies always had ways of making it seem like their victims were actually the ones causing the problem.

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    This is clearly an example of students being more comfortable reporting bullying, not that it is happening more....
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    Ahhh yes
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