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Re:Highest rates of teen bullying are between friends and fr... by rawland on Saturday February 20, 2021 @12:06PM (#26205734)
Yepp, most western schools are more a social ladder creation apparatus than educational institutions. The scandinavian school system takes a very different approach. It's worth to have a look.
Re:Highest rates of teen bullying are between friends and fr... by rgblambda on Saturday February 20, 2021 @12:16PM (#26205848)
Could you maybe give a short explanation to how Scandinavian schools answer the bullying problem? I can't find anything that directly answers that question.
Re:Highest rates of teen bullying are between friends and fr... by rawland on Sunday February 21, 2021 @11:03AM (#26214429)
This movie captures it very well: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3215346/

Trailer [en]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_-KrJseVUo

It's very hard to describe shortly... maybe: They start with you as human being first. Abilities and talents to be discovered and developing a humane human who can face the world. They don't treat you like an animal in industrial livestock farming. It has many layers to it, e.g., regular teachers and kindergarden personnel have the social standing of a Professor in your country (assuming 1st world not scand). Teaching the young is understood (like REALLY understood) as one of the most important things a country can do for its future.

Re:Highest rates of teen bullying are between friends and fr... by rgblambda on Monday February 22, 2021 @11:01AM (#26226007)
I'm still not seeing how this addresses school bullying in particular. I only watched the trailer though.

I've heard all these things about the scandinavian school system before. Bullying never came up as a topic.

Re:Highest rates of teen bullying are between friends and fr... by rawland on Thursday February 25, 2021 @05:34AM (#26261592)
What follows from the movie is that there are multi-professional teams at work.

That is, they don't have one teacher who decides about things and especially the fate of the individual pupil but teams containing, e.g., psychologists who decide about things in the regular day to day business.

Of course bullying is an issue there, too. It is pronounced wherever you have esp. social inequality, and minimizing only works approximately. However, they are thinking about this in a progressive and especially compile-ahead-of-time way. The first research on bullying emerged in the 1970ies from these countries actually. See: https://go.gale.com/ps/anonymous?id=GALE|A75022135

Re:Highest rates of teen bullying are between friends and fr... by rgblambda on Thursday February 25, 2021 @06:35AM (#26261862)
Okay I quite like this approach (assuming I understood it correctly).

Instead of a teacher whose job is primarily to educate, having to juggle the job of the emotional development of students that they will always see as a secondary task, there's a professional who is trained for that role who works directly for the school.