Bullying in our Schools and Bullying our Profession- Are there Similarities???

By Michael Nibert posted 03-14-2011 02:09

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Hello AARC friends,
I feel compelled to start this Blog that understandably may be controversial but needs to be said. There has been much attention in the news and Dateline about school bullying. As you know kids can demean other kids that are not in the mainstream and witnesses for the most part NEVER speak up. I had it happen to me in Junior High school but the media did not recognize it or report it so it was passed off by teachers and school administration as normal adolescent behavior. Times have changed since the 60's and now that type of behavior is not tolerated in schools, workplace, or other venues. So now the analogy: Why to we allow our Respiratory Care colleagues at work or in professional circles bully our professional organizations such as the AARC or State Affilliates and we do not stand up and defend what was started many moons ago (1946) in Chicago Illinois ?
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respiratory_Therapy).

So the next time you hear derogatory remarks about the people that represent us, will you standby and be silent???

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Jeffrey Davis

03-14-2011 15:06

Interesting analogy, Michael. Can you be more specific in the ways you are seeing our professional organizations being bullied? Obviously we are still the new kids on the block as a health care profession that is only 65 years old.
Politically, we are at a huge disadvantage due to our poor membership. We're sort of like the 90 pound weakling that gets bullied on the beach. He orders the Joe Weider system from the back of Boy's Life magazine and bulks up! Suddenly the girls love him and the bullies leave him alone! (Do you remember those ads?) So the big question is, how do we bulk up to keep the bullies off our backs???

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