L Milton Hankins Poet Senryu

Playground Menaces

school playground menaces
beastly children; rude bullies
teachers seldom see

disruptive home life
victims* hate coming to school
tattlers are punished

mimicking teachers
dysfunctional parenting 
learned behavior

[*both the bullied and the one
doing the bullying are victims]

written January 27, 2022

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Caren Krutsinger January 28, 2022 at 10:59 AM "dysfunctional parenting" is often to blame. So many times it is notorious. L Milton Hankins January 28, 2022 at 11:48 AM Indeed. You are right about this. But I have also seen examples of bullying in schoolteachers, which I found irreprehensible!

Tom Cunningham January 28, 2022 at 8:53 AM Many bullies are often the victim of bullying themselves and see bullying as the norm, a vicious circle. Tom L Milton Hankins January 28, 2022 at 9:22 AM I believe so, Tom. I suspect many a boy has been turned into a bully by a bullying father.