'The kindness of strangers brought a happy ending for a fourth-grader in Florida bullied for his homemade T-shirt. ... But there are a couple other important takeaways ... in part involving those who bullied him,' writes Peggy Drexler for CNNOpinion
Peggy Drexler is a research psychologist and the author of "Our Fathers, Ourselves: Daughters, Fathers, and the Changing American Family" and "Raising Boys Without Men." She is at work on a book about how women are conditioned to compete with one another and what to do about it. The opinions expressed in this commentary are hers. View more opinion on CNN.
The kindness of strangers brought a happy ending for a fourth-grader in Florida bullied for his homemade T-shirt, and whose story went viral in recent days. It was an object lesson for all of us. But there are a couple other important takeaways that are worthy of our attention -- in part involving those who bullied him.
The little boy's story made the rounds on social media and then news media after his teacher at Altamonte Elementary School in Altamonte Springs posted an account of the bullying to Facebook: the boy, a"Volunteers" fan, had drawn a University of Tennessee logo onto a piece of white paper and pinned it to an orange tee to participate in his school's"College Colors Day" -- and was ridiculed in the lunchroom."He was DEVASTATED," wrote his teacher, Laura Snyder.
Mom confronts class after daughter says she was bullied 01:36 Many bullied kids aren't lucky enough to have someone come to their defense, even on a smaller scale. And yet, multiple studies show that bystanders are the key to stopping bullying, both in terms of how they react, and how they don't. One study suggested that bystanders provide an audience in 85% of instances of bullying, and that removing the audience might make the bullying stop.
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