This probably all comes from kids being unsupervised on social media. It isn't even because parents wouldn't teach them the right things or educate them to do the right things. It's just because the power of social media allows anyone to be a faceless keyboard warrior without any morals. The kids being absolute angels to their parents can turn into bloodthirsty demons as soon as they have logged in on social media. And their parents won't even know it because they don't know how to supervise their kids on social media.

I agree with you, but kids are not sponges. They are little and inexperienced people creating their own world, and this is not an opinion of mine, this is scientifically proven fact. Our job is to give them guidance on how to build their own world, it's more than showing a good example. Also, the parents might not be aware of the bullying because kids like to do stuff secretly, and sometimes they're good at hiding and doing mean stuff behind their parents' backs. Until they get caught.

In beginning psychology, you're taught about Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, these are the things that are going to strongly affect what kind of young people our children are being moulded into and surrounded by in group settings. Funneled down thru the need/want behaviors and the kids that are in these peer/cliques groups, the leaders of these groups have the power to use it for good or malicious behavior, too often it's used for the later. In the Hierarchy of the group you will have the leader (most popular/most feared), lieutenant (supports the leader, conveys demands/wishes to the group and delivers messages directly from leader), enforcers ( ralley the message amongst each other, carry the bullying message to the victims and stiring the pot usually while diverting any and all backlash away from the leader and lieutenant) scapegoats (some of the enforcers and peers that can be sacrificed for the good of the upper leaders, used to ralley the peers against a victim or a cause and hung out alone or made to look the leader of the smear campaign against whatever cause, so the true leaders can escape attention. Often victims and sacrifices for the group.) Peers (potential victims or allies depends on day, everyone fluctuating in the group except for the leader and lieutenant unless they leave the environment) . You, as a adult, potentially have the power to change the dymamics of the group if identified early on and possible to change the behaviors of the leaders with positive reinforcement and utilize the group for good, but takes a continuous effort that time constraints may not allow for in certain school situations. Some of the kids in leadership roles are likely strongly affected by lack of needs being met, but in lower support positions there can be both behaviorally challenged and kids from normal home lifestyles. There are many children from normal home lifestyles that act out as well for no apparent reason. Yes, the earliest years will have significant affect on child psycho social development and how they treat other children.

I know, right? Who bullies a kid just because they recommend books to other people?

I always blame the parents. The so-called parents are lazy and irresponsible travesties of human being. They always find someone else to blame for their children's failures: school, community, society, the whole world. There are people who shouldn't be allowed to reproduce.

nothing. instagram and facebook are their parents.

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