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Did you know that "being nice" to the kids who are being bullied has been tried?

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“Robinson wrote that she first encountered Cruz when he hit her in the back with an apple and displayed no remorse. A year later, she recalled, she was assigned to tutor him as part of the school’s peer counseling report:

“Being a peer counselor was the first real responsibility I had ever had, my first glimpse of adulthood, and I took it very seriously.

Despite my discomfort, I sat down with him, alone. I was forced to endure his cursing me out and ogling my chest until the hourlong session ended. When I was done, I felt a surge of pride for having organized his binder and helped him with his homework.”

Looking back, I am horrified. I now understand that I was left, unassisted, with a student who had a known history of rage and brutality.”

Suggesting that Cruz’s issues could have been remedied by being “loved more by his fellow students,” Robinson wrote, represents both a fundamental misunderstanding of mental health and a dangerous idea.
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On Facebook a Jelly said there was something like that in her school too and she was on The List. It just meant they got singled out even more, and led to many disingenuous, fakey conversations with staff and some students, and even more teasing by other students.

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