We had to move away from the small district my wife went to school in back in the day for jobs when my last two kids at home were in 7th and 4th grade. we knew everyone in town.
My daughter had a terrible run with bullies starting her 7th grade year as soon as we arrived to this was a “nice” middle/upper class school district. I don’t mean just name calling. The usual name calling, tacit physical aggression when nobody was watching. Teachers told he to “ignore it” or suck it up. She could not fight back and she should NOT have to.
We lived on the boundary of another district that was supposedly better and changed schools. Facebook and cell phones helped the bullies notify their scumbag friends at the new school about our daughter. One of the bullies got suspended from the first school and guess what?... she ended up at the school we moved to. It took one week for it all to start again. They urinated on her clothes during gym, pushed her around, pull chairs from under her while sitting, broke her band instrument, started rumors about her, and finally escalated to several beating her up when my daughter started to try and stand her ground. We found out that some teachers saw it going on in the halls and did nothing. I hate public school teachers, they are cowards. Flame me all you want this is one absolute I feel is pretty close to 100% true.
After several conferences with no action I made a statement in the principal’s office that I needed contact info for the criminals parents and I would handle it myself. The principal called the police on me for making threats. I told the officer it was not a threat I will get satisfaction one way or the other. He chuckled and we had a good conversation about how bad the school actually was and that the school rarely called them because they did not want the “bad” press to stain their image because we are seeing economic growth (Texas).
We complained the whole time and the school did nothing. One assistant principal and a football coach tried to intervene but were told it wasn’t a big deal and to stand down that my daughter needed to handle it. Kids that tried to aid my daughter were threatened with disciplined for being aggressive (zero tolerance) because bullies are smart about when to be victims themselves to hide their criminal behavior and some of those good kids were then targeted themselves when alone. Finally two of the criminals were charged after we went to the county attorney. They both did one week in alternative school. Big woo?!
We finally pulled our last two kids at home out of public skrewl and put them in private Christian school. A complete 180 and my daughter is flourishing. I cannot retire now for a few more years but it kept me from going to prison for murder/assault.
Death to public schools, a plague on all who support them. I hate them as much as I do Nobama.
The bullies were both low life mexican trash and the white trash that hung with them and a couple upper scale kids. Parents were trash as well and basically totally detached from their kids lives.
Call me jaded. I have already made it clear to my children that none of my grandkids better set foot in a public school.
The time frame for this was about 4 months before we pulled them from school.