A little-discussed Government report last week continued the troubling trend of positioning bullying in Irish schools as primarily a social and cultural problem, rather than as an interpersonal problem between specific students or groups of students.
In other words, the report seeks to provide the justification the Government needs for continuing down the dodgy Bí Cineálta road the nation’s schools are already progressing along – and which has essentially provided a foolproof method for further shoehorning identity politics into Irish education.