Posted on 05/02/2023 7:08:20 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
Public schools need significant competition, which will force them to close and be replaced by a superior range of options.
Sorry, mom, this is nothing new. Now if your boy was in the girls bathroom at the time, the school would be all over this.
That is the exact same rule that I gave to my kids.
It served them well.
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Appeasement NEVER works. Period.
The only way to stop a bully is to give it back twice as hard, or how ever much it takes to stop him or her.
I’ve had to clobber bullies on more than one occasion, but never the same one twice. A solid right cross to the jaw is a tremendous attitude adjuster.
I told my kids that if they were ever attacked, they could do what they needed to do to get out of the situation.
If they saw someone else getting attacked, same thing.
But GOD help them if I find out they ever STARETED the fight, because then they’d have me to deal with as well.
What do you do about a female bully that terrorizes a whole school and whose foster Mother is a school counselor? Kick their butt. I love my granddaughter! Yeah, they went to court, the bully and her protector were a no-show.
LOL, we had a terrible time with a tenant recently so I’ve got “tenant” on the brain.
Managed to finally get the dead beat out, took a while - the laws in my state favor the tenant over the landlord 100%.
I blame the mom. She let this go on? Enroll the son in another school, or homeschool.
Poor son was traumatized and now he is suspended. Good job, mom. PS- where’s dad?
Is Drew white and is the former bully black? This may explain why the school seemed determined to look the other way.
Bkmk
My oldest daughter was being bullied in Junior High School. We tried the school’s way...we reported it. And it continued.
So, we had a sit down with the Vice Principal and I asked about her fighting back since the bullying had become physical...they blocked her from certain halls, etc. I was told if there is any physical altercation, BOTH STUDENTS will be suspended. I asked, even if my daughter is just punched and does not fight back, then she will get suspended? He said yes.
I turned to my daughter, in front of the Vice Principal and said, “The next time they accost you in any way, shape, or form and they physically touch you, I want you to beat her until she cannot move!”
The VP said I could not tell my daughter that. I told him, I just did and I meant every word. Either the school handles this or my daughter will end the bullying!
On the following Saturday, my girls and some friends were playing in the park near the school when this girl and two of her co-bullies showed up. They thought since they were bigger, my daughter and her friends would back down.
The lead bully tried to push one of my daughters off the slide...at the top, and my oldest beat her until she could not move!
The school district said they were going to do an investigation and I told them it was none of their business! It did not happen during school, on school grounds, or during a school event, so my daughter would not be answering any questions and if you ask her about the situation, you will have to deal with me! I told them, that had they “investigated” the initial reports of bullying, then maybe my daughter wouldn’t have had to protect her younger sister from a bully whom THE SCHOOL DISTRICT had allowed to continue to harass others!
My daughter never had another issue with her or the other girls, and they never asked me or my daughter anything about the incident!
I put my kids in martial arts when they were very young - my son had the smallest size “gi” - he looked hilarious but we knew all of this was deadly serious.
My son told me in middle school he was cornered in the locker room by a group of boys that he knew were going to do him serious harm - he let one have a flying kick as hard as he could right in the side, which knocked the bully to the ground. I didn’t know about this until a year later - he said they never bothered him again.
You’re talking about vigilantism.
When the law is powerless to act, or worse when they don’t want to act, then the public must take matters into their own hands.
This happened to me in 7th or 8th grade. A kid just wouldn’t leave me alone. We were in a city school in Ithaca NY and had to walk to a nearby field for PE (no fields on the school grounds). One day he was taunting me for the umpteenth time and I reached my breaking point. I turned on him, dragged him a ways and really clobbered him. Like the kid in this story, he started whimpering and begging me to stop. Problem solved, just like in this story.
Except in my case it was just me and the bully. No PE teacher involved, no suspension, just us two.
The difference between now and then? About 60 years.
Outstanding.
My oldest son took some karate in his freshman year of college. It was a very serious year long course with contact matches and all the rest. It really changed how he carried himself.
School districts talk a good game. Every year our SD requires everyone to take a class on identification of bullying in all it’s flavors. Now is it really done? I don’t know, but I really think it’s to give a district something to point to when they fail to act. “see we have a program”
Always told my kids, you will never get in trouble with me for defending yourself or someone else… I don’t care about what happens with school discipline you stand up for yourself and never ever be afraid to.
I also let them know if they started crap with others the hand of god would be coming down on them so hard they would not know what hit them.
Zero tolerance is basically codifying bullying as acceptable behavior. Treating the victim for defending themselves the same as the aggressor is all about teaching and reenforcing cowardice and compliance to authority no matter how stupid that authority may be.
I was bullied in elementary school. One day I saved my money and bought me a new bike. He pushed me off the bike and got a dent in the chainguard. I was so mad I beat the sh’’’ out of him. He never bothered me again. I learned a lifelong lesson about standing up for myself.
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