Elf Sternberg

It's not just high schoolers. The label "bullying" apparently terrified the school my daughter was at last year. They were willing to sacrifice considerable goodwill and tuition to avoid being tainted by that word.

One of the odder conversations I had involved a board member of the school, who thought "anti-bullying training" had helped their student very much, "although, of course, he didn't have that problem."

The circumlocution was striking. Bullying (and being a victim of it) seemed to be literally unspeakable.