<p>There are bullies who go to boarding schools. And then there are boarding schools whose soil is ripe for bullying. There are also boarding schools where the culture does not allow bullying to take root and where a bullier who manages to slip through the admission’s cracks is presented with a quick ticket home.</p>
<p>Many boarding schools, including mine many moons ago, either turned a blind eye toward bullying or believed it a necessary purging of the weak, or better yet, a socially acceptable form of behavior modification. In my view, the bulliers made a lot of kids’ lives miserable. Nearly every school speaks sternly against bullying in their handbooks, but only a few schools practice what they preach.</p>