Treating bullying as everyone's problem reduces incidence in primary schools

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175 points PaulHoule | 1 comments | 16 Nov 24 14:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | source

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alexpotato ◴[16 Nov 24 20:59 UTC] No.42159272[source]▶

Many years ago, one of the popular news shows (Dateline or 20/20, I can never remember which) did a special on bullying.

They showed one elementary school where the entire organization (teachers, students, staff etc) implemented some kind of holistic approach to bullying that actually worked. They even interviewed a group of kids where they said "Oh yeah, Tom used to be the bully and we were all afraid of him but now we're all best friends".

I don't remember the exact plan implemented but it struck me as both simple and common sense with excellent outcomes.

Despite much searching on IMDB, Twitter, Google and even using LLMs, I have yet to find the exact episode. Now that I have kids of my own, I'm even more interested in finding it. Any suggestions from the HN crowd?

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SoftTalker ◴[16 Nov 24 23:16 UTC] No.42160407[source]▶

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Kids becoming friends with someone who used to bully them isn't all that uncommon. It can happen especially if the bullied kid fights back and earns the respect of the bully.

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1. andai ◴[17 Nov 24 01:01 UTC] No.42161051[source]▶

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My entire experience of being bullied (there wasn't really any at my school, not sure why) is that one kid made fun of my acne. I just shrugged and then he said "you are cool." I thought it was a strange phenomenon.

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