The Weird Kid In ClassThere was a kid in my class who stood up every day and told everyone he had new shoes. This went on for weeks, and we all thought him nuts. Then, one day, he stood up and told us a long story about why his family were moving to another part of the country, and how excited he was. The next thing we heard was that he'd died in a plane crash.
Let's hear about the weird kid in your class...
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Fraser has joined the Moomins., Fri 19 Jan 2007, 10:18)
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we've never received any complaints.I briefly worked for the Department of Health, doing a couple of phone surveys.
One of the surveys they ended up not doing.
The reason for this was that they realised that certain of the questions could lead people to give answers which indicated that there might be abuse going on in the family.
So they had to take some time to work out how best to pass this information on to the relevant agencies, right?
Oh no - because they didn't want to be liable, they had to re-write the survey so as to rule out the possibility of hearing any evidence of abuse. If they didn't hear any evidence, they couldn't be legally liable for not having done enough.
I suspect the person who made that decision also wrote the school system's bullying policy, and later went on to distinguish themselves advising the church on how to deal with abuse.
This is in case anyone thinks I'm being paranoid by asserting that schools aren't interested in stopping bullying. 'Anti-bullying policies' are actually 'anti-legal liability policies'.
(, Thu 25 Jan 2007, 9:28, Reply)
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