What is bullying — and who decides when conflict is bullying?
That's a hard call to make, especially in a time when the word
"bullying" means different things to different people.  The
public rarely hears the whole story when accusations of bullying
are aired, because schools are forbidden by law to discuss or
release information about students.  On Thursday, we ran a story
about a man who was outraged about what he saw as bullying of
his granddaughter, a Wiggins student. However, Wiggins is hardly
the only district that deals with that kind of situation.
Certainly, we can predict every school in Morgan County has had
the exact same dynamic played out.  All school districts work to
deal with conflicts between students, and set up policies to try
to make the process fair.  School officials and parents never
know the whole story, either, though.  Face it, children
sometimes lie. Bullies rarely admit what they do — or make
excuses — and those actions are kept out of the sight of
teachers and officials. At the s