Do We Really Need the Federal Government to Address Bullying?

SEE HERE Insanity! The Federal government has no business entering the bullying discourse. Bullying is a problem. Another problem is civility and respect which isn't demanded either. So the government has already been involved in making the bullying worse by creating an atmosphere which tolerates and empowers it.

What is required is some sanity, but that is exactly what you never get from government. Instead we will get all kinds of bureaucracy jammed down our throats with all kinds of high sounding rhetoric which on balance will be socially destructive. That's what we've gotten ever since the government has been in the education and other businesses they don't belong in, one steady downhill trend.

I know. Why don't we just strap all the little kids in their seats while they are being indoctrinated and then put them in handcuffs before they get on the bus to go home. Sure that's crazy, but then so is suspending a kid for bringing a 1 1/2 inch keychain gun ornament to school or confiscating his feather collection because some of the feathers were from songbirds (birds do shed feathers and maybe we should arrest cats for eating birds while we're at it). Both of those were cases that I personally read about.

Bureaucracy knows no common sense bounds at all. They pass rules and then the mindlessness begins even if the rules don't seem mindless at first. I think that is a form of bullying too.