The fascinating thing is that high quality only comes from cluefulness at the top of the hierarchy, and it’s hard to transmit clues.
It seems to me that the anti-bullying programs you describe are an effort to mechanize a process which requires consciousness. Even so, they may be of some use if they limit overt violence. One of the things which is hard on victims is for them to be injured publicly, and for everyone to behave as though it doesn’t matter.
An account from fiction of consciousness-based top-down anti-bullying: One student starts calling another “Stinky”, and an upperclassman shuts it down by saying “nicknames should be endurable”. (Sorry, cite forgotten.)
The fascinating thing is that high quality only comes from cluefulness at the top of the hierarchy, and it’s hard to transmit clues.
It seems to me that the anti-bullying programs you describe are an effort to mechanize a process which requires consciousness. Even so, they may be of some use if they limit overt violence. One of the things which is hard on victims is for them to be injured publicly, and for everyone to behave as though it doesn’t matter.
An account from fiction of consciousness-based top-down anti-bullying: One student starts calling another “Stinky”, and an upperclassman shuts it down by saying “nicknames should be endurable”. (Sorry, cite forgotten.)