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to sons, brothers, sister and wife... 16.11.2016
So
said Professor Dieter Wolke in BBC R4 discussion on PM news today.
Looked him up and paged down to this:
'...In
some societies it has been found that bullying increases when the
resources get scarce and even more interesting is the comparison
between different
levels of socio-economic status: the greater the discrepancy....
'The same mechanism works in schools, where for example classrooms
that have a clearer developed social hierarchy, bullying rates
are higher....'
(A reformed bully who took part in PM
discussion said 'if your own life's a mess, you mess up other
people's'. Bullies too needed caring for, she stressed.)
To
younger brother Martin who may have been bullied by me:
The
Wolke piece also notes that causes of bullying go back a long way and
effects are long-lasting, though more so for bullied than bullies.
Now I wonder if the bullied may not also be bullies, who give as good
as they get to others downstream or roundabout. This sort of
take-and-give is welcome when it's kindness, not cruelty that's
passed around. Better a favour passed on than a favour repaid?
Perhaps I passed on my difficulties at
school to you. I remember Mum saying her elder brother was hardened
by his treatment at public school, blaming her long hard labours on
on him pulling out a chair from under her.
Was
I like that?
I
dont remember being bullied at school, just isolated – tense and on
my guard, keeping my end up, trying to make some mark on people and
events around. One night I leaned out of bed, put one hand flat on
the floor, picked up a shoe and hit the outstetched fingers with
the hard heel.
Didn't Buzzard II pull out tufts of his own fair hair? And what, if anything, had that to do with his father becoming an admiral and knight of realm? At our school, all the male teachers were Sir, though I dont remember any titles for female staff. For Miss Dunkley (who taught us music, arts and crafts, nature, gardening and French0 we only had her name. She probably deserved a title for teaching us to make things, grow things, sing in tune. Instead we laughed at her heavy cord skirts, clipped manner and hair wound round her head.
Didn't Buzzard II pull out tufts of his own fair hair? And what, if anything, had that to do with his father becoming an admiral and knight of realm? At our school, all the male teachers were Sir, though I dont remember any titles for female staff. For Miss Dunkley (who taught us music, arts and crafts, nature, gardening and French0 we only had her name. She probably deserved a title for teaching us to make things, grow things, sing in tune. Instead we laughed at her heavy cord skirts, clipped manner and hair wound round her head.
Greg
And
this from youngest bro:
Nice to know link between bullying and
inequality got an airing on PM. Glad to be able to say that we
were the first to show this link and also the one between reduced
social mobility and inequality - both have now been demonstrated by
other people on larger and quite separate data sets than the ones we
used.
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