I can remember as a kid dreading the coming school day. Something had happened in the playground the day before which immediately translated into name-calling, taunting and ridicule. I didn’t like it then, and I don’t like it now.
It has been brought to an art today with cyber-bullying and the like. What once could be kept innocuously in a schoolyard can be successfully transmitted internationally.
In retrospect, I should be thankful the kids back then didn’t pool their milk money and rent a billboard…Please click here to read Michael Scholefield’s editorial in the Times.