Liz Spetz Why Bullies Succeed

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Halloween is a day of make believe and scary images. Everyone knows it’s a spoof and that
it’s just for fun. However, there are people who make scary times an everyday event.
They’re not ghoulies or ghosties but real life bullies.
We haven’t much problem with bullying in our school but in other locations it has lead to
tragic consequences. One school in the news lately has suffered four suicides by children
who have been literally been harassed and bullied to death. How does this kind of thing hap-
pen in a society that is so well informed and educated?
The theories about children as bullies are numerous but I suspect that the real source of their
power is outside their own personal aggression. As part of a close-knit group of people, we
can see every day when someone is being singled out for punishment. We see it, it makes us
cringe but we do little or nothing to intervene. Why?
There are two major reasons that are as true for children as for adults. First, the unwritten
MLS #377454 law that says “never tell”, never rat out your colleagues or your peers to those in higher au-
thority. The second is fear; the real possibility of retaliation combined with the belief that
www.REALTOR.ca even your friends won’t have the nerve to stand up for you. These two factors combine to
allow bullies to succeed because we let them intimidate us. It worked for the Mafia and it
works just as well for children.
To combat this difficult impasse we try to provide safe means for children to get the mes-
sage out to someone who has the power to protect victims. Obviously, this doesn’t always
work. Too often the message fails to be delivered or is misinterpreted. Once or twice
missed, the opportunity to change events may not come again. Both victims and passive
observers become isolated and feel powerless. The heroes in the movies are the ones whose
Great October Films!!! sense of righteousness is so strong that they eventually step up and give the bully a beating,
giving that person a taste of their own ugliness. Often this only happens in fiction. In real
Saturday, 29th life you’re more likely to just keep your head down long enough to get out of school, get
Young Frankenstein another job or just move away. And that’s how bullies keep winning.
The only way to defeat bullies is to take responsibility and act as a group to stand against
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them in the first place. The longer they have power, the harder they are to defeat. Yes, it’s
Halloween Double the responsibility of those with authority to be watchful and protective but, foremost, it’s
Feature! necessary that the whole peer group have a set of standards that they will stand up for.
1:00—Scooby Doo! That’s a lot to ask of children but if you don’t act then you share a degree of complicity in
Abracadabra Doo the crime. The adults’ responsibility is to be aware and listen and get involved immediately.
This effectively makes the adults de facto members of the group. However, those who have
2:30—Prize Draw! authority must be seen to act quickly or they lose respect. If one person of authority doesn’t
Come in costume to respond then find another.
win a prize! Bullies succeed because they are tolerated and their viciousness is dismissed. We must have
3:00—Scooby Doo! zero tolerance of bullies in our schools and homes, in the work place and in government.
We defeat them by working together and taking responsibility. JK
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What a Year! (2010)
this spring and summer
the hills were so green
as to rival Ireland`s landscape.
the abundance of color and life
took our breath away ….
the responsible abundance of rain
made us wonder
If there was to be a time
to plant and seed,
let alone harvest ….
now, the late autumn-sunshine
and unexpected warmth
have leached the color away,
the hills standing like sand-sculptures
among stubble-fields of dusty gold.
i find myself
liking the honesty
of this barren-ness,
this bare-ness
as much as the lushness …
just another face of nature
teaching us about
… ourselves …
Gabriele Kück
Luanne Armstrong
Recalls a Childhood
on the Farm
Luanne is the 2010 winner of the Stegner
Grant for the Arts and has just finished
spending the month of October in Eastend.
She is the author of fourteen books, in-
cluding poetry, novels, and children’s
books. She has been nominated for numer-
ous prizes and awards. Her first novel,
Annie was a best-seller in Germany. Her
YA novel, Jeannie and the Gentle Giants,
was nominated for Canadian Library As-
sociation’s Book of the Year; the Sheila
Egoff BC Book Prize award and the Red
Cedar award. It placed second in the Sil-
ver Birch Award. It was also named by
McNally Robinson Booksellers in Winni-
peg as one of their top ten all time best
children’s books. Her essay, Tuning the
Rig won the Canadian Author’s Associa-
tion first prize. Her most recent novel, The
Bone House was shortlisted for the Cana-
dian Sunburst Award for Science Fiction
and the Relit Prize for Fiction.
Luanne gave a public reading on Oct. 22
from Blue Valley, an Ecological Memoir,
describing her childhood on a hard work-
ing fruit farm in BC where her father’s
favourite motto was “you work, or you
starve”. However, trying financial times
never kept exuberant children from excite-
ment and curiosity in everyday chores.
One of her great escapes was reading and
she announced at a young age her determi-
nation to be a writer.
She succeeded and gained a PhD. along
the way, but, she never gave up the farm
that provided her original source of fasci-
nation. Now she lives there “alone” with
dogs, cats, chickens, a horse and a large
extended family. Luanne matches rural
life with an adjunct professorship teaching
Creative Writing online; proving that rural
living can combine with an unusual and
rewarding career.
JK
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And long-legged beasties
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And things that go bump in the night,
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Pilgrimage of Remembrance by Brenda Fredrickson
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