Local example:
My son reported this incident to me. As a member of a highschool
service organization called Chain Reaction, he was participating along
with a group of peers in Walk America sponsored by the March of Dimes.
They were all wearing their Chain Reaction T-shirts. During the walk they
caught up with a man in his twenties also on the walk. He was
handicapped, moderately but noticeably, both physically and mentally. The
man noted the T-shirts and asked the group what they stood for. My son
explained that they were a service organization that helped out in the
community, especially working with other kids as volunteers, tutors etc.
The man asked if that meant that they went around beating up bullies.
Disappointed to learn that Chain Reaction had never beaten a single bully,
the man explained that his whole childhood had been spent living in fear
of bullies, who targeted him because he was different. "If you really want
to help kids," he offered, "you should clean out the bullies."
Is that a bird? a plane I see? or is it superman.
How do these bullies find the opportunity to torment the unfortunate? It
happens right under our noses, no? What constitutes bullying (just to use
this instance as an example that has many other versions)? God is in the
details.
Greg Ulmer * * * * * * *
http://www.ucet.ufl.edu/~gulmer/