We’re mean
Tue, 2014-11-18 09:42
News Staff
By Lynette Sowell
One of my favorite books from childhood begins like this: “It was a dull autumn day and Jill Pole was crying behind the gym. She was crying because they had been bullying her. This is not going to be a school story, so I shall say as little as possible about Jill’s school, which is not a pleasant subject.” So opens The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis, published 60 years ago. Supposedly at Jill’s school, the leaders believed children should be allowed to do what they liked, and about 15 of them liked nothing better than bullying the others. Was it stopped? No. “Instead, the Head[master] said they were interesting psychological cases and sent for them and talked to them for hours.
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