Bullying is ignorance ‘inherited’ from parents

Having watched the father of Phoebe Prince speak on RTÉ’s The Late Late Show on Friday night, I want to highlight a cause of bullying.

I’m tired of the diagnosis that a psychological defect causes people to bully.

A bully is the product of bad parenting. In my experience at secondary school, bullies seemed unintelligent and badly reared.

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