> Experiencing bullying is (unironically) one of those shared social experiences

It also teaches you to deal with bullies. That said, we had homeschooled kids in my Boy Scouts troop. They learned how to deal with bullies just fine.

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somanyphotons 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Kids (and teachers) generally don't deal with bullies well.

It really just results in them continuing to being bullied, or reacting badly and getting blamed themselves.

	▲	JumpCrisscross 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Kids (and teachers) generally don't deal with bullies well Are there studies on whether bullying is higher in lightly supervised versus moderately supervised groups? Or mixed-age versus single-age groups? Scouting is lightly-supervised mixed-age groups. If an older kid bullied a younger kid, that resulted in adults reading them the riot act. But if a younger kid bullied a younger kid, the two sort of wound up sorting it out until someone threw a punch or pissed off an older kid. (For being annoying.) That second dynamic was, to my memory, unique to mixed-age groups.

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oceanplexian 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Why would you need to learn to deal with bullies?

If you try that the modern world as an adult you get charged with aggravated assault, pick up a criminal record and then are weeded out from polite society.

	▲	JumpCrisscross 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Why would you need to learn to deal with bullies? Because bullying is an extreme example of a common human power dynamic. > If you try that the modern world as an adult you get charged with aggravated assault, pick up a criminal record and then are weeded out from polite society Fair enough. I was thinking exclusively of non-violent bullying. (It may get physical. But in a roughhousing way. Not one intended to cause pain or injury.)