Is bullying and teasing a natural progression for humans or is it taught? If you looked at daycare with children 3 year old down they seem to be interested to play with each other across racial lines, economic lines and to a good point gender lines, but when the kids get older (and it seem the higher in school they go the moiré it happens) a group of the suppose “in” kids start to single out those with physical defects; cleft pallets, strange birth marks, dwarfism etc, and those with Tourette syndrome, Asperger syndrome, etc, later on any kid that don’t “fit in” because they don’t like the music everyone else like, they don’t have a Wii game system, they can’t afford $80 sneakers, or designer labels, etc. If parents did not teach these kids to be so cruel in their teasing and bullying where did they get it from? They must be pretty stealthy if the parents don’t know their “little angel” is terrorizing other kids at school. If the parents did not teach them bullying is it something that just happens like other traits of childhood?

Topics: school, friends, groups, tolerance, bullying, peers, clique