Blog Question: Is bullying a rite of passage of childhood and adolescence? Is it apart of the maturation process one needs to go through to reach adulthood? Explain. Mrs. Hogeboom brings up this topic on page 108.
Response: No, bullying is definetly not a rite of passage to adulthood. What bullying is is a way to make some people feel good, and some people feel bad. The victim is not passing a sort of test or rite while being bullied or harassed, and it does not change them for the better. What it simply does it removes them, makes them withdraw and start trusting nobody and nothing. They use almost all their energy trying to avoid the bully, and even when it stops they try to stay out of sight, not attract attention. Even those that manage to stop it aren't changed for the better as they just learn to be wary of people and always have defensed focused. If somebody thinks that bullying is a rite or test to prove your matureness that person should think about what he/she would do if they were bullied, and how they would react to the cruel torture.
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Your post is easy to understand and pretty formal. I can tell that your response is focused on teaching us that bullying should be stopped. But the only part I don't get is how you said " What bullying is is a way to make some people feel good, and some people feel bad". Who's feeling good? Who's feeling bad? The Bully or the Victim? But apart from all that, it was a well written and thought through.
Well thought out post and response. Great classmate correspondence. Excellent. r cook
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