Abstract
Bullying is a serious and enduring problem in education, an agreed upon fact that seems to resist efforts at improvement. Since 1999, when the Columbine shooting occurred, there has been increasing awareness of the connection between bullying and school/mass shooters. There is an increased effort to disarm schools and students when gun violence arises, however the very efforts may be causing more harm than good. The connections between bullying and LGBTQ+/gender issues are just as serious as the school shootings, because they are resulting in large numbers of deaths. The chapter presents the seriousness and pervasiveness of bullying from diverse perspectives; linking them through the Social Ecology of this moment. Current solutions are evaluated at the end of this chapter, along with Trauma-Accountability strategies to counteract bullying.
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“California is 41st in the nation in per pupil K-12 spending, but “No. 1 in per prisoner” spending”.—Delaine Eastin on January 13, 2018 in a town hall.
The annual cost of incarceration per prisoner in California is around $80,000, compared to annual per pupil spending in K12 education at around $10,291 year, about $1900 less than the $12,252 per student spent by the nation.
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The gender issue for males may lie in the stereotype of males. The dominant culture commands a strong masculine identity for males. Being a victim of bullying is inconsistent with being male which invites violence as one way of resolving this identity threat/crisis.
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Cisgender is a term referring to people who feel congruence between their gender identity and the gender assigned to them at birth. Conversely, transgender is a term referring to those who feel incongruence between their gender identity and the gender assigned to them at birth.
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Gray, LA. (2019). Bullying. In: Educational Trauma. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28083-3_14
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