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10/13/2012 06:58:30 PM · #26 |
That is horrible!!
There needs to be a law requireing you to be licenced to raise a child!!!!! If all Parents taught nothing more than RESPECT.. for others for yourself. I believe things would be different on both ends bully's and victims!
I was bullied for a year in 6th grade, only because we moved into a RICH Dr's area and my Dad wasn't a Dr... Finally after I had done all the correct things Dad n Mom taught me to do, my Dad had enough and said SIC EM... I literally scalped the biggest girl who was the one the others pushed to do their dirty work.. To this day she has a bald patch! The bulling ended there, Yep I got in trouble with the school for fighting, Dad came and tried to put his boots up the butt of the principal! I walked a lot taller after that not just because the gang left me alone but because my Dad defied the powers that be on my behalf!
Parents make the differance |
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10/13/2012 07:22:42 PM · #27 |
Originally posted by Spork99:
Schools are all about being anti-bullying these days, but the reality is that instead they're protecting the bullies.
My friend's son was bullied repeatedly by an older kid who would throw him on the ground, taunt him, grab his head and stick the younger boy's face into his crotch. My friend's son told the teachers, the principal, and the playground supervisor every time it happened. They'd talk to the older boy about what he'd done, explain to him how that was unacceptable...maybe make him stay inside. Nothing happened... as soon as the bully got a chance, he was right back to it. The victim was, of course told by his teachers that retaliation was just as bad as bullying and so on. Finally he told his dad what had happened and how the school officials had essentially done nothing to stop it. Of course my friend went to the principal to get an explanation...after some hemming and hawing, she admitted that she hadn't suspended the boy or really done anything beyond some counseling because the boy had a difficult home life, he lived in a poor area and his dad was in prison, his mom worked 3 jobs so she felt bad for him and thought it was better for him to be in school...my friend was livid.
About a week later, he gets a call from the principal who tells him his son is in trouble and is sitting in her office. Evidently during his latest beat down, he'd decided he'd had enough and had hit the bully in the testicles and proceeded to vent his pent up rage on the bully who now in addition to sore genitals also had a bloody nose and two black eyes.
The bully was never a bully again...at least while he was at that school. |
EXACTLY!!!! A couple of weeks ago, one of my son's friends got two days out of school suspension because he got on a fight on a bus. A bit of background -- K. is one of the sweetest, most polite young men (11 years old) you could ever hope to know. He is an A-honor roll student, and has NEVER been in trouble at school before. On the bus home, a kid insulted his mom and K. went across the seat and had him in a choke hold. Now, there is a lot you can say should or shouldn't have happened in this situation, but the most telling to me was that the assistant principal told K's mom, "I know K's not a bad kid. This boy had been goading him and trying to get him to fight for weeks and K. finally just had enough." SERIOUSLY. You (school administration) KNEW this kid was poking at another kid, you do absolutely dip-squat about it and wonder why the good kids are having enough and fight back?
How long should kids put up with it?
TODAY, a friend of mine was telling me about a kid at the local high school where she works. A small boy, with mental developmental issues, has been picked on for weeks by a bigger "normal" kid. The administration knows this is happening. The smaller boy was found with a metal rod in his pocket and he admitted that he had gotten in his welding class and was going to use it for self-defense that day. He got in trouble for having a weapon at school. The other kid gets nothing.
yes, the bullies definitely get the protection it seems. |
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10/13/2012 07:34:42 PM · #28 |
I'll just add my experience on the issue: I put 3 (step)kids through public school, all had issues, or had friends with issues of bullying of various degrees. None of my older kids graduated from high school (nothing to do with bullying, but other discipline issues). We sent my oldest son (kid #4) to private school K through 12 at great expense, but his schools DID NOT TOLERATE ANY DISRESPECT to anyone. There were ZERO incidents of bullying or any other disciplinary problems with our son or any of his schoolmates.
Just making a case for vouchers / school CHOICE. |
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10/13/2012 08:24:30 PM · #29 |
| FWIW I was always told by my parents to ignore bullies and they'd leave you alone. Ha. Never happened. But although I had a lot of fights behind me - even as late as high school, I'm ashamed to say - I always ended them. I never started them. |
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