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1. My three children are out of school just and sadly, I believe cyber bullying is much more common than the statistics quoted above.
   Cyber bullying is a cowardly way to vent anger and frustration.
   Jealousy plays a big part, especially with girls and the need to be superior and popular at any cost drives a lot of this behaviour.
   I also think schools unconciously promote this need for popularity, in the way leaders are selected and also the attention given or not given for the right reasons.
   Cyber bullying is growing and will be a very difficult problem to solve.

   Posted By: Cate Wallace

2. I think Cate makes a good point in that how children are treated by teaching staff can cause extra problems.
   For instance, favoring a child who is politically correct over one who is honest.
   What we are seeing is a watering down of traditional morality in favor of a more relativistic outlook and all that comes with it - sadly.
   On the whole, I do think that teachers are unaware of the effect this has on children and it is really just a result of a wider cultural problem. The sooner the root cause is addressed the better; here's hoping.

   Posted By: Mary

3. 'Politically correct' as opposed to 'honest'? The 2 descriptions are not mutually exclusive.
   Mary, would you mind clarifying?

   Posted By: JR, Sydney

4. Sure: “It's politically correct only to speak of those things that are subjective, only to speak of those things that you determine 'work for you,' they may not 'work for me' … We're in a prison with that.” - Bishop John Quinn
   And from George Cardinal Pell, "Examining how relativism in the form of school-based post-modernism proposes to make students into ‘agents of social change’ makes it apparent very quickly that there is another agenda at work underneath it all. Generally accepted understandings of family, sexuality, maleness, femaleness, parenthood, and culture are treated as ‘dominant discourses’ that impose and legitimise injustice and intolerance. These dominant discourses are then undermined by a disproportionate focus on ‘texts’ which normalise moral and social disorder. Too much time is given to narratives about sad and dysfunctional individuals and shattered families … [S]tudents are not forced to confront and learn from the great English language classics but are allowed to sink towards the sordid and the dismal rather than strive towards the good and the beautiful."
   Relativism and political correctness are mutually inclusive, to the exclusion of honesty and truth.

   Posted By: Mary

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