"Mean Girls": The Reclassification of Children's and Adolescents' Folklore
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How can the study of folklore help us to understand bullying? The media have given more attention to boys' bullying than girls': a natural choice, since the perpetrators of the Columbine massacre and other school shootings were boys. Since the winter of 2002, some media attention has shifted to the bullying patterns of girls In this essay I want to examine bullying by girls and, to some extent, bullying by boys, using information from children's folklore studies, the popular press, and a discussion group for parents and educators. I also want to explore how parts of children's and adolescents' folklore have been reclassified: instead of being viewed as traditions belong- ing to young people, they have become known as negative behaviors prohibited by school regulations and public policy. This reclassification has major implications for those of us who teach folklore and work with children and adolescents in the public sector.
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