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Not much humor in this column. There’s really nothing funny about the subject.

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Not much humor in this column. There’s really nothing funny about the subject. Can we all agree on the premise that no one is born a bully? In the annals of medical history, there’s not a single case of a baby crawling out of his bassinette in the baby ward of a hospital and threatening the little tyke in the next crib. Bullying is learned. Period. And in my humble opinion bullying has not grown significantly worse in the last hundred years. In fact, there may be fewer actual bullies since we are at least labeling it now and taking steps to prevent it. But the results are more drastic…when you’re humiliated in cyberspace with a potential audience of millions, it’s worse than being depantsed in front of your girlfriend in the Jr. High hallway. And is sadly the case in education, we’re attacking the cure in all the wrong directions. As the comic strip character Pogo once famously intoned, “We have met the enemy and he is us.” Good Lord, just look what’s going on.