Posted on 05/19/2014 2:24:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway
“if the mother made a reasonable attempt to get the school administration to stop the bullying and got no help, then a felony charge should be met by jury nullification.”
Plus get a good mean lawyer to sue the school to get the costs of a private school paid for.
“My thoughts exactly. Too often any type of wrongdoing by one child becomes a general punishment for everyone; i.e., Little Joey left his lunch trash all over the table and floor, so the whole class is prevented from having recess while they discuss “appropriate lunchroom behavior.” I haven’t personally dealt with any bullying situations, thank God, but I know parents who have, and from what I’ve heard the school will always take the path of least resistance (usually the well-behaved child with decent parents who don’t want to “make waves” pay the price). I feel forwarned.”
Yes, unfortunately, you have been for warned.
Encourages those who were punished for doing nothing wrong to pay "Little Joey" back for the school's bullying. Nice little game these schools have going... they create dysfunctional environments filled with "problem" students who require increasingly freakish and capricious punishments.
And people wonder why many fed-up parents choose to home school instead of wasting their energies battling a system run by and for bullies. It's a system and culture of abuse that won't shrivel up and die no matter how sick and twisted, because it is funded into perpetuity though force of law, not normal market forces.
Going to take a big zot from above to break open these prisons and set the captives free.
A fat, violent biker-gang kid, about 11-12 years old, who lived across the street threatened my little daughters once - he was always pestering them verbally, but on this occasion, he came across the street and started swinging a heavy bike chain at them while they were playing on the sidewalk in front of our building.
I saw this out of the window, ran down the stairs and screamed at him so loudly he dropped the chain and started running. I ran down the street after him, grabbed him and pinned him to the ground and made him say he wouldn’t ever come near them again. He was crying, I guess mostly because he was so surprised. I’m small and he was bigger than I was, but never get in the way of an angry mother!!! Nothing stops us.
His father, recently out of jail, came over but then just shrugged and said the boy was misbehaving. Later, the kid was taken out of the home - which was totally dysfunctional, because as usual, the parents’ miserable lifestyle had everything to do with his behavior. He’s probably in a state prison or dead now, unfortunately.
Still, the moral of the story, is never mess with somebody’s kid if momma can find out about it. In the same situation, I’d do the same today, no matter what. It’s the only solution to “bullying.”
Reminds me of when I was in the 9th grade and was hit in the back of the head with a “hard” softball after a PE class in an unprovoked attack. When I protested to the culprit, he hit me in the face. Knowing that we were forbidden to fight and were to take such issues to the “coach,’ I did just that. He chose to ignore it, dismissing it with, “You’re not hurt, are you?”
Too bad the daughter wasn’t gay.
Same thing here, my grandson is now home schooled. Got his end of year results last week, in the 99%. At 14 he is already programming. Got help from his dad, who is an engineer. And is his full time teacher.
The bully has been moved because he was getting in too much trouble.
My grandson had been in the same Christian School since K4.
Now he will start college by age 16.
And I am still angry because bullies get away with their bad deeds.
There's the money quote.
Sounds just like my grandson’s principal.
One time when my grandson complained, the principal said “People spit in the face of Jesus”. Oh he is such a moron, and he knows what I think of him.
I could do that, I grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.
I remember as a little girl, seeing the men in white sheets, I don’t recall seeing a hood.
I would know how to dress for the occasion.:):):)
I must say I am kidding. Someone may read this and think I would do such a thing—NEVER_NEVER.
“I am the grandmother of a boy that was bullied at a Christian School, the principal was a good man with no backbone.”
I had a similar issue to deal with - except it was sexual harassment of my daughter.
I made an appointment, told them they had 24 hours to handle it before I filed police charges publicly.
It was handled that day.
Just recalled, my grandaughters teacher in K4 had her husband helping in the school, same Christian School my grandson was in.
He was arrested a few years ago for molesting his granddaughter. I just found out last week, he is already out of jail. His wife is back teaching K4. Though he is not suppose to be within 1000 ft. of a school.
He had also molested another family member and it was kept secret.
Paid for by taxpayers. 'Time to send your kid to school with a wooden pistol.
She’s a successful woman who has worked her way up to managing a large department store.
Meanwhile, I would bet the 350 lb ghetto thugget has 5 chilrens by 3 different mens and pays for her pizza and cable bills with 6 different types of welfare.
Your friend’s daughter won.
I think one of the big problems of Christian schools is that parents of troubled kids pull them out of the public schools and put them in Christian schools, which leads to this kind of thing.
The school students my grandchildren attended are mostly children of active church members. One boy was there because he was not doing well in public school. Only 250 students K4 through grade 12.
We were not members and believe me we were treated as such.
I’d graduated and left home but my sis, normally very quiet and studious, flat cold cocked a hoodlum that was bullying our much younger brother (the one I took to his first day of kindergarden when I was a senior). She put the little ruffian on the floor of the bus, told him to never lay a hand on or get near the kid brother again or she would put him on the floor again. Went back to her seat and never said another word. The old bus driver, the one who drove the hoodlum kids mom when she was in school was laughing about it more than 25 years later.
I think the legend is still told to this day. ‘Course that was in the days when we had gun racks in the pickup and carried our rifles and shotguns to school so we could hunt in the mornings or after school. I even bought a pistol from the coach and kept it in my locker until we went home on the bus.
I’d come around the corner at the parking lot sideways to skid into the parking spot and even got pea gravel inside my tires when the bead would break a bit. Took me a long time to figure that one out.
Those were better days than these. We got to be kids growing up in the country and we had freedom but we also had accountability, responsibility, punishment and consequences then it was over. We worked at whatever we could to buy our old pickups and cars and gas but we worked. None of this life haunting zero tolerance on your record for life crap.
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