Kate Harding Editorial on Teens and Bullying

I didn’t write it and I’m not sure how it connects to the SAT or jiujitsu or pie baking, but it is important. I’ve been extremely lucky to teach kids who are actually really “Good Kids” and I like the idea of that phrase continuing to mean something by not applying it to just any kid who happens to be bullying his or her peers in ways that are shocking and cruel. As Kate Harding says here, could we please just have the decency to stop calling these people “good kids”. Of course, we could switch to using “good kids” as a code for sociopaths, but until that irony is firmly in tact…let’s draw the line somewhere, perhaps at gay bashing and bullying?

http://kateharding.info/2010/10/06/on-good-kids-and-total-fucking-assholes