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Choice's Outstanding Academic Title list for 2013 In today ?s schools, kids bullying kids is not an occasional occurrence but rather an everyday reality where children learn early that being sensitive, respectful, and kind earns them no respect. Jessie Klein makes the provocative argument that the rise of school shootings across America, and childhood aggression more broadly, are the consequences of a society that actually promotes aggressive and competitive behavior. The Bully Society is a call to reclaim America ?s schools from the vicious cycle of aggression that threatens our children and our society at large.Heartbreaking interviews illuminate how both boys and girls obtain status by acting ?masculine ? ?displaying aggression at one another ?s expense as both students and adults police one another to uphold gender stereotypes. Klein shows that the aggressive ritual of gender policing in American culture creates emotional damage that perpetuates violence through revenge, and that this cycle is the main cause of not only the many school shootings that have shocked America, but also related problems in schools, manifesting in high rates of suicide, depression, anxiety, eating disorders, self-cutting, truancy, and substance abuse. After two decades working in schools as a school social worker and professor, Klein proposes ways to transcend these destructive trends ?transforming school bully societies into compassionate communities. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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In a way, it is very much like a prison (and those are catastrophic already). Klein characterizes many of the bullies as having 'hyper-masculine' instincts. Apathetic to authority, a need to 'show off' to others through conquests physical and romantic. Economic and social status. Incredible pressure to compete, or conform, or hide. Basis of gender, sexual orientation, physical appearance as major factors for being targeted.
Not all those who are bullied become school-shooters, though, as Klein tends to overemphasize. Most only hide further within themselves. Although this crucible of an educational environment only makes those individuals already susceptible to violence even more likely to crack.
Furthermore, I would hesitate to characterize the flaw of the educational system as being the cause of all of our major social and economic woes, although it does play a not insignificant role, and one that needs action, not my mere words.
Raises some tough questions. ( )