You wonder where these kids are learning this behavior.
(Or maybe the kids are a bad influence on the parents from the stuff the bring home from school.)
There should be multiple cameras in these schools similar to a casino. No more excuses for these delinquents getting away with harrassing anyone.
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Where I live, the anti-bullying lobby is actually the pro-gay lobby. They believe tolerance is the way to combat bullying.
She also said she had seen Kelly Medina picked on, and that Kelly “handles it with such dignity and kindness, not fighting back.”
I grew up being the “runt” of my class, smaller than everyone else. Because of that, I was bullied a lot. I learned early on if you don’t fight a bully, he/she will just keep it up. It took until 4th grade before I found a way to stop it. I went “crazy” on one guy. I got the worst end of the fight, but the bullying prectically stopped.
The problem with the schools today is that even if you are totally passive and only the bully is doing the punching, you’re fighting and the school punishes everybody involved. The teachers etc. cannot be everywhere at once, and most are afraid of the students. The kids aren’t taught respect for authority at home, how can they be expected to show it in school?
Let the parents punish their kids, make the parents responsible for the actions of their minor children, and give the teachers back their paddles!!!
Could we have Americans not giving the school away to crimalien invaders?
Crap journalism in the first degree.
The Ophelia project sounds like something to run away from.
Lake county is 36% Hispanic.
Since the article didn’t say that White kids had been the bullies, we can safely conclude that it wasn’t White kids. It wasn’t Hispanics either.
Stupid lib school board members need to be voted out of office.
My daughter was being bullied soon after we moved to the area. It was mostly happening on the bus and immediately after being dropped off at the bus stop.
The school has a zero tolerance policy and were trying to find out the name of the girl who was bullying. The apartment managers found out what was happening and met my daughter at the bus the next day. Had her show them who it was...confronted the girl with an ultimatum...”if you bully her or anyone else in the apartments, your entire family will be evicted”. They called the school to tell them who it was, and the whole matter had been resolved.
Or so we thought...the girl is starting to get onery again. The mom doesn’t speak english (she wears a face veil). She tells another person she thinks I am crazy (because I dare to accuse her child, after her child was caught throwing my daughter to the ground by her hair and kicking her).
I’m going to teach my daughter how to pick up an equalizer...such as a stick, a steel bar, or a broken table leg...and defend herself!
There was a kid who use to whip me all the time when I was in the six grade. He was much bigger than me and he seemed to receive much joy from beating me about the head and face. I never ran from him because I knew he would find me the next day and continue his joy of beating the tar out of me.
Just before school let out for the summer I saw ol’ bully tough guy running toward me and I new what was coming. During all the times we had fought I had never cried. This time was different. This time he tore my shirt that my father had worked so hard to get for me that I cried. He laughed and said he would see me again. As he walked away I told him that one day I would be as big as him and the outcome would be different.
Long story short. Two years pass and I had not see the bully. I thought he had moved. One day as I was walking home from the bowling alley on Cleveland Avenue in East Point I saw the bully. He was strutting along like the Duke of Earl unaware that I was fast approaching him. When I got close to him I tapped him on the shoulder and he turned around. I wish I could say that I wore him out but I didn’t. He beat the tar out of me again only this time it took a little longer for him to introduce my nose to my left and right ear.
I learned a valuable lesson that day. Some people you just gotta leave alone.
James
Those bullies need a serious time out! Yeah, that’ll teach ‘em!
I just read this thread and asked myself a question (again).
There’s poetry and potpurri threads and pinglists.
There’s the Banglist.
There’s the Knitter’s, saddlemaker’s, etc...
Where’s the parenting discussions ping list?
I’m a single Dad of 2 great Sons. I would make great use of a list such as this.
If you’re going to send your kids to government schools, you have to teach them to fight to protect themselves.
No one else will.