<p>mimk6-- agree that kids need to be empowered to deal with harrassment, assualt and stalking issues. However, just as adults sometimes must resort to the court systems and the police in these cases, so the kids need to learn to take these things to the police.</p>
<p>Even the fact that we have a different name for it, “bullying” when it happens with kids, “harrassment, assault, emotional abuse, stalking” when it happens with adults is wrong. I think we need to call it what it is.</p>
<p>The fact is that while some of it is mere sniping, a lot of it is criminal behavior in the adult world, and just like the old schoolyard fistfights which are now called assault, these behaviors need to be called what they are. And criminal behavior is not the victims responsibility. It’s simply a crime.</p>