Posted on 11/03/2017 6:49:48 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
“..perhaps they had no choice.”
What? The parents were being forced to send their child there?
“Career choices, housing choices, lifestyle choices—all geared toward surviving on a single middle-class income.”
Your complete post is the same mindset that my wife and I took on.
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Who do the children belong to, you or the government?
“Children are dying over this and something needs to be done!”
Parents responsibility - remove the child from that abusive environment.
Well, I never would have, but I didn’t want to be pointing a finger at them. If they both work, and didn’t have the intelligence to know how bad it was, maybe they felt like it was something she was going to get through. Personally, I would NEVER send a child to the public system now. I home-schooled my own kids because I didn’t want them indoctrinated....and that was 25 years ago!
“My advice to parents of a bullied kid: sue the school district.”
Sue the school district. Also file PERSONAL suits against each employee, teacher, principal, etc., at the school who had been made aware of the situation.”
It has to hurt. Examples need to be made to alert teachers that it can hurt them and their own personal financial futures. Suing a district with tax funds to settle a suit is one thing. Suing individuals who allow it to occur will make others pay attention.
“Whatever was the reason she kept her daughter in that school ...”
I’m guessing it was a paycheck. Maybe her career.
I have an 11 year-old sixth grade girl.
She’s the center of my universe. My sunshine. My reason.
I can’t imagine this. I just can’t.
“Most times projecting confidence is enough to deter a bully”
I was bullied from kindergarten through sixth grade by one boy. No huge reason. We were pretty poor. My clothes were not nice. I was shy. By sixth grade, I’d had enough, and happened to be on crutches for a while. Then one day he started in on me and without even thinking about it, I took one of my crutches, swung it around with quite a bit of force, and just took him down. That ended it. No repercussions. (It felt GOOD! It still does — 55 years later.)
She shot the wrong person.
I’m guessing it was a paycheck. Maybe her career.
That is not a reason to keep a child in a school where she is bullied for months and the school hasn’t helped. There are other public schools. There are free charter schools that might be more of a drive, there is homeschool (maybe with a babysitter or elderly neighbor checking in during the day until daughter is 12). There are many options besides your daughter’s suicide. Too late for this poor girl.
But your thinking is how many people think. I HAVE TO DO WHAT MY GOVERNMENT SAYS NO MATTER WHAT. The worst thing on the planet is to lose a child. Surely people can get the proper priorities straight if they realize Gd made us free and we don’t have to keep a child in a dangerous school.
“That is not a reason to keep a child in a school where she is bullied “
I totally agree. I wasn’t making any excuse for her.
“They had a case in New York City where a kid who was apparently being bullied killed two of his tormentors right in the classroom in the middle of a history class. I’ll bet they won’t have any more bullying problems at that school for decades”
If I were on that kids jury, he’d walk.
In this brave new world you are right. In a simpler time a simpler strategy worked.
“What is with the Mean Girls mentality? I’ve had three boys and this never happened with them. And now I have a daughter and even in preschool girls start this sh*t, where two girls won’t let a third one play. Where girls make another girl feel like she isn’t good enough.”
It’s been happening since forever. This is not new. There is no “mean girls mentality.”
“where two girls won’t let a third one play. Where girls make another girl feel like she isn’t good enough.” Again, since forever.
Our society has changed. We don’t handle this like we used to. Also, not everyone has to like everyone else and that shouldn’t be considered “bullying.” We as a society have gone from one extreme to the next.
I’ve raised four daughters and have been employed in the school system, on and off, for 29 years. When any of my daughters had issues at school, we handled it. We didn’t rely on someone else to fix it. I’ve found the main issue with the school system to be the takeover by the liberal/left and the main problem with parents to be they aren’t raising their kids.
It’s all not “bullying” either.
Too many parents aren’t raising their kids and would rather allow a child to deal with stuff for two months and have someone else fix it. They’d rather set up a gofundme page after the fact.
So the parent knew for a year that her child was being bullied at school and still sent her child to that school?
As an involved parent, I’ve had to weed through the teasing, normal behavior of kids to actual threats. Name calling to physical. Same as my parents did with me and my siblings. Never rely on anyone else to fix it.
Former student of mine, 14 years old, hospitalized for depression and suicidal, and he wasn’t “bullied” at school.He was in the best school environment yet still suffered from depression and was hospitalized for depression and under suicide watch.
If all these kids are being bullied at school, as reports lead us to believe, I think parents should pull their kids out because that’s the only thing that will make it stop. If a serious bullying issue is occurring at school, pull the kid out and it affects the bottom line of funding. Scream about it to the media. However, I think the issues are way more than what the parents want to deal with.
Bullying is the new trend and it sucks for kids who are/were actually bullied. Just like the “rape culture” on campuses screws those who really were raped and “sexual harassment” is the new thing and #metoo nonsense.
Again, this parent knew her child was dealing with this for a year or more.
This explains some of it.
My advice to parents of a bullied kid: pull the kid from the district. Deplete the number of students/funding. If a parent isn’t willing to do that, then they’re only looking for a lawsuit.
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