jailing for bullying

[McMullen]

I absolutely think you should go to juvenile hall for bullying. Unfortunately if passed it will probably be carried out in the same fucked-up way that schools always do things; the bully and the one being bullied will both be jailed. I suspect that it'll often even be just the victim who gets disciplined.

There is no reason why this behavior should be tolerated. It causes a variety of psychological problems for the victims and, I suspect, provides evidence to the bullies that being an asshole can be a successful life strategy. Perhaps it wouldn't be if, you know, people actually fucking did something about it.

And there's the Rage. Always comes back when I think about those days, even after a decade and a half. It's actually directed more at the school staff than the bullies. I suspect many of the bullies were just as naive as the victims were, and were for the most part performing the role that the emergent junior-high culture demanded of them, for fear of joining the victim caste themselves. Some of them even tracked me down and called me years later and apologized. The staff, on the other hand, allowed this culture to exist, should have known better, and should have intervened.

So yeah, I support it but don't think it'll end well if it's left up to the schools to enforce it.

 

[Jodah]

Not really. I was the middle of the road guy in high school. Some people would try to bully me and I would bully some people. I'm not entirely proud of either but I never thought of taking my own life or another persons. Kids need a little backbone now and need to learn to deal with jerks. There are going to be a lot of them when they grow up.

That being said if the bullying crosses the line to assault then they should be punished.

 

[Digitaldreamer7]

With laws against minors being what they are, jail isn't an option. Some sort of probation or community service maybe... Really though it should be enforced on the parents, not the child. This sort or behavior isn't something they just spontaneously develop. It's taught at home. It could be directly or indirectly taught by the parents bullying the kids playfully or indirectly by the parents not punishing the siblings as they bully each other. My daughter has a younger uncle and grandpa that use a sort of picking on or bullying as a way to "play" with her. Needless to say they are not allowed alone with her and are swiftly corrected by me when they try to "play" with her.