Posted on 10/16/2007 4:05:33 AM PDT by Man50D
My #38 post might answer your question.
Thanks to the local police, the Middle School was just the beneficiary of a grant to install new security cameras. It would be up to Aaron Vitt, the Middle School principle to explain what is happening; thus far he has remained mum.
I’m glad your son stuck up for himself, but am sorry to hear that he lost his buddy. I would have to wonder why the other mom feels it’s necessary to not have a sense of “self-preservation”, a key concept necessary to survival in so many ways. IE:finance,health etc.. What a sad story.
This is one GREAT thing about living in Texas - no school district has any authority to do anything to or about parents who home school their own kids. Freedom lovers - come on down! We need more voters who love freedom and the law.
the way schools are going,I’d keep my kids home. Ahnold Schwarzenegger, justsigned into law among numerous bills, the one that allows trans gender students to use each others rest rooms., NO MORE SEPARATION OF BOYS FROM GIRLS?
If I were a student today, I’d hold it til I got home.
We traveled threw the northern part of the great state of texas on our way home from a long needed vacation. It’s our NEXT trip. If I could get our entire family to move there...and I plan to make the attempt, I’d do it in a heart beat.
I bought my mug.... “don’t mess with texas”, and use it at least once a week. I can’t tell you home many people we met on our trip (cross country to calif.), who were from Texas. They were the nicest bunch of foks I’ve ever met. I’m not kidding. They were kind, outgoing, friendly and wonderful to speak with. I can’t wait to go to padre islands....that’s the first on my list, as well as a few cities.
My wife and I used to live near Moberly. I can attest that there are literally several hundred kids ranging from K-12th grade that are homeschooled in this region. There may be thousands of kids now. Homeschool Co-Ops have a huge presence in the Mid-Missouri region. I can’t comment on the state of Moberly Public Schools since we lived in Columbia, MO.
“That’s true — until the victim stands up for himself.”
What’s your definition of standing up? Having dealt with our son being bullied for 2½ years, I can tell you it’s a difficult situation.
We told our son that he would NOT be in trouble at home if he ended up kicking some bully butt at school but the school made it very clear that he would be suspended if he got into a fight, no matter who started it.
We got tired of the school’s inaction and finally, after years of considering it, pulled our kids out of public school last year.
The bullying wasn’t the only reason we chose to homeschool, but it was the proverbial straw.
PING...
“threw meant through”..I do get embarrassed at times at my lack of proofreading. (not always...)
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Missouri is very friendly towards homeschoolers. In fact that region Moberly/Columbia/Jefferson City has a huge homeschooling presence, complete with homeschool Co-Ops.
Your comments brought back a few memories. One of which was when my son was suspended for slamming a kid into a bathroom stall for defending a girls “honor” so to speak. The principal (who was VERY good, and definitely had a lot of commonsense) told me that “I shouldn’t punish my son at home..told me why, and that he would have done the same thing”....Dang, we lost him to another school district within a year or 2.
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I wonder how many students will be pulled out of CA public schools now and homeschooled. Do you know if these new laws affect private schools?
I wasn't talking about standing up to the bully. I was talking about reacting so that the bully knows they are getting to you (i.e. facial expressions, crying).
Where would you expect to hear this - from your kids? Assuming first that they know, they aren't going to tell you, gee, there's this kid in school that this guy has been bullying for 2 years. They might tell you if it was THEM being bullied, but otherwise, very unlikely.
I'm very glad neither you nor your kids have never experienced any kind of long term bullying. I went through some terrible bullying as a child. I was extremely shy and had an alcoholic father that everyone in town knew about. To top it off, I missed most of 3rd grade, then had really ugly coughing fits and couldn't do any physical play for most of 4th grade because of whooping cough with complications. In other words, I was an easy target for bullies. It never reached the level of death threats, but it did get physical. It went on all through grade school.
If anything, it seems to me the public schools are OVERLY sensitive about bullying.
Not in this case. And that's fine. The mother pulled the kids out to homeschool them. The school should just be glad she isn't suing and leave it alone.
In fact, we regularly see threads here on FR making fun of public schools for calling certain things bullying.
True, and most of those who are doing so have probably never experienced the things these kids did, nor the things I did. Some degree of bullying happens to all kids. That's okay - makes us stronger people. But when it gets physical or there are death threats involved, the school must step in or at least let the parents do so.
Of course in her favor.
Considering HSLDA is involved, I figured “in her favor” was understood.
It's also important to consider in this story that the school district still gets to claim a percentage of homeschoolers and collect tax moneys for them. EVEN IF they don't provide a single service to the home school family.
75% of my property tax goes to the local school district. 0% of my children attend or recieve any services from them. My father is still paying 75% of his property taxes to his local school district, though his youngest child has been out of school for nearly thirty years.
Now, this story is really getting under my skin. I'd like to see some of these harrassed home schoolers bring multi-million dollar lawsuits against these bureaucrats and school districts. They have EVERY right to home educate their children if they choose. The districts should butt out.
For five years, I was bullied at school. I was smacked, kicked, punched, stabbed with a pencil, had my clothes torn and drawn on, and one time had a coffee can of motor oil dumped over my head. Really ripped me apart.
My crime? I was a fat kid. We finally moved and that was the end of it. (OK, that was *almost* the end of it. Twice in JR high I beat the snot out of kids who just *started* to give me crap. I lost 50 pounds and took up weight lifting. Didn't do too bad for a girl.)
What's really sick is that kids can be bullied without anyone laying a hand on them. Kids can play some seriously sick psychological games.
IMHO, the only answers are good adult supervision and stable parenting.
This mom did the right thing by yanking her kids. Should've done it sooner.
Oh please. I stood up for myself once (in the begining) and got the living snot kicked out of me. Glasses broke, two black eyes, bent nose and a split lip. What did *she* get? Nothing. Did she respect me more? No. She gave me MORE hell.
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