Post by Village Idiot on Jul 14, 2020 17:58:18 GMT -5
Thanks for posting this, Terry. I agree that it's a good article, and heartily agree that maybe a kick in the nuts would work too. I've passed the link on to several people.
I didn't read the article not just in the light of bullying, but also in the light of child behavior.
I've been driving the hospital van a couple days a week, a two hour courier route between outlying clinics. It's given me the chance to have conversations with safe, common sense masked people who keep an appropriate distance. What I heard today in the Urbana clinic today was that despite our governor's suggestion that students don't need to be wearing masks when attending school this fall, most districts are requiring that anyway. One person asked how teachers could possibly enforce the mask rule with an entire roomful of students. My answer was that teachers won't have to.
Just like the rest of us, kids have been isolated since, in Iowa at least, March 16th. Unlike us, they hate the isolation even more than us adults do. There is no way they are going to give another kid the chance to ruin the socialization they've finally been given by coming back to school. If there's a kid trying to skimp on mask wearing, the other kids are going to jump all over him or her. They won't get away with it. Nothing like self-policing when it comes to children with things that are very important to them.
How does this fit into bullying, which is the topic of this thread. Easily. The kid who is going to resist the mask, most likely, will be the bully. The kids who self-police proper mask wearing will, most likely, will be the ones who are usually bullied.
We hear and read that this pandemic will be a life-changing experience. This will count for kids as well. It'll be interesting to see how it all turns out.
I didn't read the article not just in the light of bullying, but also in the light of child behavior.
I've been driving the hospital van a couple days a week, a two hour courier route between outlying clinics. It's given me the chance to have conversations with safe, common sense masked people who keep an appropriate distance. What I heard today in the Urbana clinic today was that despite our governor's suggestion that students don't need to be wearing masks when attending school this fall, most districts are requiring that anyway. One person asked how teachers could possibly enforce the mask rule with an entire roomful of students. My answer was that teachers won't have to.
Just like the rest of us, kids have been isolated since, in Iowa at least, March 16th. Unlike us, they hate the isolation even more than us adults do. There is no way they are going to give another kid the chance to ruin the socialization they've finally been given by coming back to school. If there's a kid trying to skimp on mask wearing, the other kids are going to jump all over him or her. They won't get away with it. Nothing like self-policing when it comes to children with things that are very important to them.
How does this fit into bullying, which is the topic of this thread. Easily. The kid who is going to resist the mask, most likely, will be the bully. The kids who self-police proper mask wearing will, most likely, will be the ones who are usually bullied.
We hear and read that this pandemic will be a life-changing experience. This will count for kids as well. It'll be interesting to see how it all turns out.