luke walmsley's death highlights, yet again, that many british schools seem to have a heads-in-the-sand attitude to bullying.



i'd love to think that the death of this poor kid will be enough to make them all confront it fully and appropriately



but i doubt it and, like children being abused by adults, will be allowed to continue despite a welter of bureaucratic actions which will do nothing to protect children from their enemies.



i remember my own school days when bullying was just seen as part of growing up.



bullshit.



it's about terror, crime and hatred.



and schools need to do more about it than having a fucking ineffective "bullying policy". that's like a corporate "mission statement" - a piece of crap dreamed up by a marketing moron, not by someone who gives a fuck.



friends of mine had a daughter who committed suicide. i believe she did it after being bullied beyond endurance by some little bastards at her school. the school, of course, claims there isn't a bullying problem and that she killed herself for some other reason.



any school head who says there is no bullying problem at her / his school is a fucking liar. it happens in all schools, all the time.