Bullying

I don't think bullying in any form should be taken lightly. There shouldn't be a set definition of the word because it doesn't matter what one person believes it should mean. In the time that someone sits down to decide what "bullying" should encompass, there are children that are being hurt either physically or emotionally. It seems that adults are the people worked up about the issue, even though children are the victims. Why should someone, who is merely an observer, be allowed to decide the difference between teenage drama and bullying? I believe that the two are equivalent to one another. If someone is constantly involved in conflict with their peers, they are slowly beaten down until they have no fight left in them. If someone wants to actually address the issue, they should stop bullying at the source by providing positive interactions between students. There was a show on TV a couple of years ago that brought a group of people into schools with major conflicts between students, and made them all sit through a day of group discussions and activities that allowed them to get to know one another. The students learned about the backgrounds of peers that they may never have had contact with before, allowing each person to understand that before choosing to make a rude comment or to push someone aside in the hall, they should think about how that person may be affected. It is easy to hate someone when you don't know them, but it is impossible to have any negative feelings towards a person when you begin to realize why they are the way they are. Why are adults so worried about defining bullying when they could be doing something about the conflicts?