Bullying: a cottage industry

  The current push in education is to not only acknowledge bullying, but to lecture on it, to encourage entire communities to get involved in stopping it, to get teachers to trawl Facebook at night for cyber bullying and to make it a frequent topic of conversation amongst school and community members. 
  A Google scan reveals that this push to stop bullying, started by George W. Bush and continued by the current administration, has spawned a cottage industry of sympathetic advisors, psychologists and former educators who get paid an enormous amount of money to develop materials that identify bullying ("teasing, being excluded, ignored"), write surveys and school educators in the perils of bullying.
  A 2007 Daily Mail UK article cautions against too much coddling:

Police officers warned this year that a target-chasing culture is forcing them to make 'easy' arrests for offences such as bullying.

In one example, a child in Kent was arrested for throwing a slice of cucumber from a tuna sandwich at a classmate.

The latest Government guidance to schools urges heads to record all instances of bullying and report the findings to their local council.

But Mr Gill, who led the first Government-backed review of children's play areas in 2003, warns against mollycoddling children by describing everyday teasing as bullying.

  It's difficult to find that balance today, four years after this article was written. Since the DOJ is threatening to file lawsuits against schools who are unaware of cyber bullying on such social sites as Facebook, schools are now open to more lawsuits from parents who didn't know their kids were being bullied/bullying online any more than the school did but who need someone to blame.
  Why, one might wonder, might the current people in charge be so focused on bullying when the behavior of adult bulliers is being ignored, all across the nation?
  While Claire McCaskill, like John Kerry and his boat, feels no need to pay taxes on her plane and Eric Holder feels it is his duty to promote Ghaddaffi being removed from Libya, people's lives are being threatened, polling places are being stalked, businesses are being crushed, abusive and sexual insults are being hurled and no one on the whole civility side of the aisle feels compelled to ask them to stop, even while they wail about children being bullied.
  The speak civilly advocates feel absolutely uncompelled to stop any of the vile language and activities going on now; ditto the whole bullying thing.
  Let's face it.
  The bullying IS going on, along with law breaking.
  It's the preferred modus operandi for the speak civilly crowd.
  No one's asking to be coddled. No one's asking to be babied.
  It'd just be nice if the bullies would be civil, once in a while, and enforce the law.