Izzy had been successfully teaching kids and schools how to deal with bullying for twenty years before the Columbine massacre. Afterward, he immediately began warning that antibullying, or antibullyism, as Izzy has labeled it, would cause more harm than good. Antibullyism was contrary to basic psychological principles and promoted interventions that tend to intensify hostilities and weaken children emotionally. Izzy has fought an uphill battle fraught with relentless vilification, because the promises of antibullyism are so seductive and no one wants their hopes shattered. Who can resist the irrational ideas that schools can guarantee children a bully-free environment, that victims have absolutely nothing to do with being bullied, and that only bullies are to blame and need to change? Thus, people continue to zealously support antibullyism despite its inevitably disappointing accomplishments.

Without concern for profits, Izzy has continued to challenge the massive anti-bullying industry while disseminating the Kalman Method, also known as Bullies to Buddies, which actually saves schools money. Rather than trying to eradicate bullies, Kalman focuses on teaching people how not to be victims. When victims are armed with this knowledge, bullies seem to miraculously disappear, like sharks with no prey. Furthermore, Izzy does not differentiate between “bullies” and “victims.” Every child deserves to learn how to defuse hostility and to be socially successful, skills that will help them for a lifetime.

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Fundamental to the innovative Kalman Method are compassion, humor, insight, wisdom, and speed. It exploits the genius of children to help them transcend victimization, and it does so in record time. In this almost effortless process, Izzy’s students recoup their self-confidence, happiness, and excitement for life. Some have called the Kalman Method “magical.”