←back to thread

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

(phys.org)
175 points PaulHoule | 1 comments | 16 Nov 24 14:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
Show context
Kozmik1 ◴[16 Nov 24 22:34 UTC] No.42159996[source]▶
Can anyone comment on the current prevalence of bullying in schools in the UK vs the USA? We have been considering moving from the Us to the UK but perceived higher likelihood of bullying for our mixed race kids is one concern holding us back. It's hard to know if we are exaggerating that concern or if it is warranted, it would seem hard to know the level of hostility of a school environment prior to moving there.
replies(3): >>42161126 #>>42161423 #>>42163403 #
1. gverrilla ◴[17 Nov 24 10:59 UTC] No.42163403[source]▶
I don't know if it answers your question, because I never studied in the USA, but I want to share my experience regardless.

20y ago I did a high school semester in the UK (Worthing) and it was a very good environment with no bullying whatsoever. 3 factors contributed to this:

1) low stress environment as a whole (beautiful campus, calm teachers and staff, etc)

2) the students had a high degree of liberty in choosing what classes they would attend, so they were presumably interested and not rebellious

3) the student divided themselves into strict groups, and these groups barely interacted with each other.. so after class the 'goths' would hang with the goths, the 'sports-people' with the sports-people, etc. I didn't quite like this at the time because I'm very sociable so it struck me as weird. However, it did work in the sense that there were hardly any social problems among the students.