Posted on 09/17/2010 11:04:23 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
FLORIDA (KGO) -- A father boarded his 11-year old daughter's school bus in central Florida to confront her alleged bullies.
She has cerebral palsy, and James Jones says some kids on the bus had been taunting her, hitting her and had even thrown condoms at her. He brought her on board and asked her to point them out.
"Everybody sit down. Everybody sit down," Jones said on the surveillance tape. He then orders his 11-year-old daughter to point out her alleged tormenters. "Show me which one. Show me which one," he said.
"I'm gonna (expletive) you up -- this is my daughter, and I will kill the (expletive) who fought her," Jones said.
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>>If that were my child that was taunted, I would have gone berzerk.<<
If that were my child taunted, I would have never sent her back to that “Lord of the Flies” atmosphere.
Real life is not like school.
In theory you are right but the school board would probably have been as impotent as the rest of the school officials. Everyone afraid to stick their neck out by taking positive action.
Do you have the same thoughts concerning victims of violent rape?
The father lost control because thugs harmed his disabled daughter and the school did nothing.
Funny, your user name works with blame the victim logic
“Back in the day, kids were afraid of their parents. I was never afraid of facing the principal, I was afraid of facing my Mom.”
That is all true but you can’t do that today.
When I was in elementary school, my junior high brother got into an altercation with his vice principal. This resulted in detention for him and a phone call home, which I witnessed my father answer. I also witnessed my father confront and ...well...”educate” my brother about how such things WON’T happen again. That butt kicking was a “twofer” as my brother went on to be an honor roll student for the rest of his school days and I myself made it a point to ALWAYS be respectful to the administrators whether I agreed with them or not.
But you see, today my dad would have been put in jail for it.
Bottom line is: Parents are afraid to discipline their kids for fear of the nanny state. And that is why we have jerks on the bus tormenting little girls with disabilities.
dittos
What self defense technique would you recommend for a disabled girl with cerebal palsy to defend herself from multiple bullies? That's what this article is talking about.
“…Nothing has changed…”
I also as well, along with everyone else had such things happen, and remember it well, the problem is limiting direct retaliation allows the bullying to continue…
Since Government Education has taken it upon themselves to be the arbiter through their many fraudulent programs to decide what is and is not something to be acted upon. Considering several points, this child is disabled, they are in charge of the child’s welfare, they have video recorders on the bus; the father did what Government Education (aka school system) refused to do…when it is you and your kids I could only venture to guess it seems to be more important; although, for some reason Government Education does not comprehend this.
So you obviously applaud his inaction. I guess you feel I should have fought the guy who attacked me. Perhaps so, as I conceded, but I still think the coach should have interceded. This was not an argument or dispute but an assault.
good post
“Blaming the victim” is a bad thing, huh?
>>Do you have the same thoughts concerning victims of violent rape?
If a whore gets drunk and goes partying in a bad part of town, guess what?
Now. Back to the topic.
You said “The father lost control...”
Thank you. You proved my point.
You can justify why he lost it. You can excuse it. You can say the punks had it coming, whatever. But if most FReepers would stop the knee-jerk reactions for a minute here, then they would see the Father did have other (better) options and he - as I said - has no self control. Or as you said, he “lost control”.
He already did. Next he should have gone Neville Chaimberlan on their asses and wrote a strongly worded letter to the local paper.
The father did NOT lost control.
Losing control would have been beating the snot out of them (which they probably deserve anyway).
Being fearful is a good thing for bullies.....get a clue.
Yeah, that’s the problem with America today. Little girls with cerebral palsy are such wimps! /s
If a whore gets drunk and goes partying in a bad part of town, guess what?
Not every rape victim is a "drunken whore" in the "bad part of town."
We seemed to have hit a nerve. Did you used to get your jollies molesting the special ed kids? Looks like we found a troll and a pervert.
“she deserves to be raped...”
Not my opinion. Must be yours. If that’s what you think, then keep it to yourself.
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