Posted on 09/08/2022 4:32:55 PM PDT by Morgana
My boy arranged an encounter with his bully where the TV cameras had no view, and then gave him a roundhouse. The Karate lessons were a wise decision.
Mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy, here’s a dad joke, mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy, here’s a dad joke, mommy, mommy.....
Their parents obey the pagan culture clerisy. Some don't know any better. Why would you send your kid back into theat den of vipers? Why didn't the father take care of business?
I struggle quite a bit with stuff like this. Jesus told us to be kind and compassionate, but people who quote the “turn the other cheek” verses, I believe, don’t really get it.
Yes, turn the other cheek, but in the middle of a passage in Romans, Paul puts in a qualifier - “If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.” So sometimes, it must be IMpossible.
In the garden, Jesus gave himself up to be crucified. But when Peter drew his sword and cut off a servant’s ear, Jesus didn’t say “Why do you even have that thing?” He said, “Put up thy sword into the sheath...” Think about that. Jesus did not condemn Peter’s preparation, or the mindset that had him carry the sword.
In other words, I believe we are not to be doormats. I believe there is a proper time and there are proper circumstances when we are to resist.
May this boy rest in peace. I have no idea how he was raised, but he should have been raised to know that God loves him and that no one else’s opinion matters. “If God be for us, who can be against us?” Had this been a core part of his thinking, he might not have killed himself. And, it seems we are raising an entire generation of boys to remain children and never learn how to fight back - verbally or otherwise.
I took a lot of crap when I was a kid in school, but my parents and God loved me, and I knew it. But after a while, if you pushed me far enough, I’d deal with you. The guys that messed with me didn’t any more. Friends or not, they respected me. And I could talk to them.
Kids need to be kind, but ALSO tough. We live in a fallen world. God’s men need to protect their families, and we can’t do it if we don’t learn to defend ourselves first.
I’ve raised two boys, and they could stand up for themselves and be friends and respectful to those who provoked them afterwards.
This ain’t “Leave it to Beaver” any more. Some kids are evil because their parents have taught them to be. Some are even deadly. We have to teach our kids right.
(Father, please forgive me if I’ve mis-represented your Word.)
I had an older brother that is OCD, a gentle giant, he was the target of lots of bullying when we were young.. from age 11 or so I would make it my mission to absolutely destroy bullies.. I got kicked out school, off the bus alot for a while, had a few stitches, lost a few fights, won most. In a year or so things settled down and the bullying pretty much went away accept when new kids moved in.. . I have to say decades latter, I would do the same.
oooooh...you bad!
ya, well it ended all the problems my son had. so...
Most school principals now seem to be middle-aged female liberal harpies.
I was bullied in elementary school.
At “graduation” I was sucker punched. I - for the first time, retaliated - in spades. In front of all the parents I punched the bully in his mouth...his mouth full of braces.
Blood flew everywhere. We were hustled off to the office.
My mom was looking at me like I had been replaced by an alien or something. The principal approached us and said, in front of my mother...
“You took it for five years, couldn’t you take it for five minutes more?”
Administrators and teachers DO NOT CARE.
Wendell Middle, Wendell, NC 27591
508th of 760 North Carolina Middle Schools
Student/teacher ratio: 14.3
Number of students: 815
Racial breakdown:
Hispanic:36.9%
African American:36.6%
White:20.0%
Free/discounted lunch recipients: 52.9%
https://www.schooldigger.com/go/NC/schools/0472002825/school.aspx
The reporting here does not go into exactly why this kid was bullied. He did not fit in and there is an obvious reason.
Small white kid in a ghetto school. What could go wrong?
You are correct. Also, unless you come back with brutal force of biblical proportions, drag them into court, press charges through the police and not the resource officer, threaten to or actually sue, get to the parents and raise holy hell that hits their wallet, most schools do little to stop it.
I am blessed that my youngest son is in a school that protects him. He is special needs, so when he was attacked for wearing a Trump lanyard that his brother gave him as a gift and it was all caught on video, the police were completely on our side.
I gave the school the name and phone number of my attorney and told them to explain to the parents that if their little darling or any of his friends so much as said a word in my son’s direction, I would press criminal charges, bury them in legal bills in civil court, take it to the media, and THEY would be paying my son’s college tuition. I had time enough, money enough, and fury enough that I would make their lives hell. I said this all in a calm, relaxed voice with a smile on my face.
The smile made everyone nervous.
What did the officer say? “Ma’am, I like your style. I will let them know.”
Apparently, he did. They stay far away from my son and zero retaliation.
Before this school, the other ones wanted to sweep things under the rug.
That would work. My dad said to sting like a bee. Anyone can kill a bee with a hand swat, but no one wants to be stung.
A kid can learn to handle bullies in many different ways. But, sometimes a kid is so emotionally beaten down, as this boy was, that he can't handle it. In that case, a kid could build self-confidence through martial arts.
Even better, remove the kid from the school.
The problem is, kids don't tell their parents everything, so most parents don't know the full extent of the bullying.
So many kids have been committing suicide. I feel so sorry for this boy and his family.
A video at the link shows the boy’s mother with a group of supportive friends in her community. It is a group with a mixture of people heartbroken for this young boy.
Mental anguish is a killer.
God can forgive, as only he can Judge rightly.
I love it when a plan comes together. Your son has a loving & a fierce defender.
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