COVID Shaming: The New Face of Bullying in School?
COVID Shaming: The New Face of School Bullying?
The classroom door opens and an administrator or advisor calls out a name. This was formerly known as "Ooooh! You're in trouble and you're going to the office!” Now there's silence and sideways glances. Everyone knows that the student faces a two-week quarantine. Across the country, schools still conducting face-to-face classes are having to deal with notifying close contacts of COVID-positive classmates. Unfortunately, calling on a student in class often leads to the spread of gossip as well. Children are naturally curious. You wonder who was exposed. Has anyone tested positive? Who else did they give it to? But the curiosity doesn't stop there. It turns into COVID gossip, teasing and bullying at school.
COVID restrictions create pressure to confo...