Posted on 03/12/2009 11:59:17 PM PDT by tlb
A 16-year-old charter high school student allegedly struck out against a classmate who had been bullying him Wednesday by stabbing the youth with a scissors in a school hallway.
Chicago Public Schools officials said the stabbing happened during a "conflict resolution" session -- in which the perpetrator and his father had come to meet with the dean of academics over how to address threats from the alleged bully.
CPS officials said the father and son had been meeting with school officials on the issue just before 9 a.m., when the son left the dean's office and encountered the alleged bully in the hallway.
The alleged perpetrator reportedly ran back into the office and grabbed a scissors from the dean's desk before the stabbing, officials said.
The youth was in serious condition Wednesday.
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LOL. And so it begins....
And voila, the conflict is resolved!
“Sounds like we had a breakthrough today in counseling.”
Don’t bring a bully to a scissor fight.
Conflict resolved.
Don’t bring a big smart ass mouth to a scissor fight. ;-)
Well I can understand. I was considered a nerd and tormented by many during my school days. One day, one of the bullies walked by and slapped me and kept walking.
Unfortunately for him, I had had enough and knocked him down from behind and stomped and kicked him. I truly believe I would have killed him had my friend not stopped me.
Well, I knew I was going to be in deep crap, but he refused to tell what happened to him. We had been out of sight during lunch. He had to go to the hospital and missed school for over 2 weeks but never said anything about it. Nor did my friend or I. He also never messed with me again!
Well...I guess that handles the bullying...
That’s awesome, I mean “horrible”, no I mean awesome.
Didn’t his mother tell him never to run with scissors?
Guess not.
At least no one lost an eye.
I got my 10th grade bully .. finally ... 30th Reunion .. I flattened him... went to the bar put $20 down..told bartended.. when he comes too,,, the next rounds on me.
During HS... he always had a gang with him.. when I had it. swung around and proceeded to open a can of whoopa** on the BIGGEST of the gang (not the perp) pounded on him until he got the best of me.. He never bothered me again. .. until^
Good decision. He’ll probably get juvy. School probably sucks for him anyway. Any decent lawyer ought to be able to get him off any real jailtime.
I say the victim figured out quick that Conflict Resolution is a joke...and just went after the bully anyway
Conflict Resolution is a joke...it equates the perp to the victim....and tries to put blame on the victim.
Its that liberal pro-criminal mentality that permeates in liberal society....like being pro-illegal alien, no capital punishment for murders, reduced sentences for violent criminals....all methods that value the rights of criminals over the rights of victims
now that is conflict resolution with a vengance.
Problem solved
conflict resolved...
Exactly! I had this happen with one of my kids. They said things like, "What is it about your behavior that brings your classmate to do things to you?"
We told the principle to stop the 'counseling' and bullying immediately or else. It stopped.
It usually works.
In my mid teens I had a similar problem. We had just moved from Pennsylvania to North Carolina - and I was “That Damned Yankee”. 5 kids decided to fight the civil war over again.
My mother just kept telling me there was never a reason to fight. If I did nothing they’d soon tire of it. My father had a different opinion and enrolled me in a Judo/Karate class.
I put up with it for about a year. One afternoon I was cornered in a room with the 5. They attacked, I defended. I herded them to the office and reported the attack.
The principle laughed and told me “Boys will be boys!”, sent one kid to the hospital and told me I was suspended and to go home. I went to class.
There were kids of thought using Judo wasn’t fair. I’d ask if 5-1 odds was fair. I wasn’t bothered again. 2 of them became friends.
I had this same kind of crap to deal with. I had a ultra-Leftist educational-establishment step parent at home whose attitude was always ‘well, you must’ve done something to set them off’.
Well, yeah. I can see how walking to class with my book bag minding my own business might be viewed as a grave provocation. *spit*
The only thing that ever worked was to flatten the bastard. The last time that I had to resort to that was in the service. After repeated, unprovoked attacks and harassment, I flattened a Lance-Corporal with a mattock handle across the shins. I was careful not to break them. I was a private just out of boot. He wanted to be all buddy-buddy after that. I wanted him to fsck off. He finally did.
...I will give up my scissors when they pry them from my cold dead hands...
When “busing” began in out area, we were bused to a mixed school We were a bunch of rich kids. We had always fought by Queensbury rules. Black kids didn’t fight like that. If one kid got an advantage, the other kid pulled a weapon. It was quite the education.
These types of things do not end as well as they used to. There used to be a code of honor. You had a bully and another kid, and the friends of each would ensure that it was mano-e-mano til one was the clear winner.
Now days, the jerks pile on, jump you outside of school, in hallways. These people are dangerous gang members. There is no honor.They are brought up devoid of values, in a culture of death. They go after your property, your family, and will try to kill you. They use weapons and intolerable forms of initmidation and torture. The schools are impotent as they have had all the tools they need to be in control removed, and have created a sense of entitlement. The teachers are too afraid of the students to stand up to them, and the administration says these animals are entitled to an education so unless they kill someone, they are not removed, they are just susupended for a couple days. They come back with a vendetta, and the student they beat up/bullied is the person they blame for the suspension so they come back with the intent to harm them again. This goes on in suburban schools and it is widespread. If you kids are in public school, and you can make the necessary sacrifices, get them out asap. There are tons of great programs online to let them get a HS diploma, and as far as socialization, who wants their kids socializing with these animals?? Let them socialize with LIKEMINDED people. Ones on their sports teams, church youth group, and other controlled situations.
Both of my kids are currently in public schools. My older son is in all honors courses and has an excellent education. My youngest is in ESE education (he has aspergers syndrome)and these classrooms, at least in the upper grades, are just holding tanks for future criminals, and that is according to a teacher on the inside! I will be taking him home for the rest of this year. I can do this better and keep him safer. Check out your schools, this is much more prevelant than most parents would like to believe, and many students won’t tell for fear of retribution since most parents would be on the phone to the school that very minute. Next thing you know, your child has committed suicide for feeling like they have no way out. Socialism doesn’t work, and it destroys schools from within. We, as parents are not as aware as we should be because we remember with nostalgia our own school days, and cant imagine saying F#CK you to a teacher or admin, much less not being disciplined for it! this happens every day in almost every classroom. I was stunned, and while many on here may say they were not, I cannot imagine that if this were widely known, that parents would not absolutely storm the schools and DEMAND these maniacs be removed from school immediately! Their childrens safety is in jepordy and their educations are non existent. Their kids live in constant fear and when their teachers aren’t having sex with them, they are having in, in the classrooms, bathrooms, lunch rooms, and buses, with each other. Teen pregnancy, drug use, alcohol use, and cutting are climbing rapidly.
I get nervous when I see a gang of kids while I am walking to my car at the mall. If they notice me, I walk quicker and am thankful I took necessary steps to protect myself. I cannot imagine being a kid and having to spend all day around them, watching them take out one kid after another and always wondering, when will it be me. This is not a good learning enviroment! Remember, this is going on at your school, unless you go to sidwell friends, check it out for your kids sake!
Government schools are socialism in action. I hear a lot from conservatives these days about socialism, when are they going to start including government schools in their critique of socialism. Until they do that, they’re not serious.
My kid’s sixth grade teacher was offended when I told her the anti bully program was ridiculous and that my son had my permission to haul off and knock the snot out of anyone who bullies him.
They need to bring back Reform Schools.
I graduated from High School 30 years ago and we had the same kind of thugz running around then. No discipline.
My son has apparently has had someone making his life miserable in school. The last straw was this week, when this kid grabbed a female friend of my son, threw her up against a wall and twisted her arm up behind her back.
According to all reports, my son simply beat the tar out of him the next morning before school. He got 3 days suspension and an arrest for misdemeanor assault (we have yet to go to court on that) but I think he feels quietly proud of himself.
It tended to be concentrated in certain areas 30 years ago, except for the Scott Farkases of the world (as I am sure you know, thats the bully from A Christmas Story). Today, they will kill you over a pair of sneakers.
You are right though, reform schools would clear up the problem so fast your head would spin. I know that here in FL, it will never happen because a kid died in one here, as he was badly beaten by drill seargents. Yeah, its that bad.
The teachers and principals at my daughter’s school feel the same way. If she gets physically hurt by a another student, she is supposed to tell a teacher.
I told her to beat the person up, instead. That is the only way to make sure that person won’t mess with her in the future.
She has the right of self-defense. She also has a black belt in karate, and her next plan is to get a black belt in judo, too, while still working on karate.
The principal told me that if that happened, my daughter would be suspended. Go for it, I said.
No way is my daughter going to be raised to be a victim from the get go. What happens if a criminal goes after her? She’s got to have a self-defense mindset, not curl up and take it, then go find a teacher.
I had dinner with friends last night. One of the women mentioned that gangs are so prevalent in Jersey City public schools — not because of recruitment — but because these thugs are the children of gang members.
Well, at least they send their kids to school.
“Well, at least they send their kids to school.”
The thug kids go to school because they’re shaking down half the student body and selling drugs to the rest.
Well, that’s one way to resolve a conflict.
“conflict resolution” 1960s version! LOL!
It worked for me. I beat the crap out of my tormentor and he left me alone after that.
Counseling, especially the lib social/post modern kind never works! THE ONLY think that would help this kid is forgivness, and a relationship with Christ. I’ve been in his place, though not with the violence, and these school admins/professionals are usually dodos who look past the real heart of the problem.
Hahaha!
Great picture post, Bon. Wonderful
Ask your son if he does feel proud of himself. Then tell him he has every right to be.
When I was in school, I would stand where others could see me and my shadow. And, I would shadow box.
During one fight, I got a black eye, chipped tooth and a bloody nose. And, the school bully’s never tried to asault me when my shadow was around.
“got my 10th grade bully .. finally ... 30th Reunion .. I flattened him... went to the bar put $20 down..told bartended.. when he comes too,,, the next rounds on me.
During HS... he always had a gang with him.. when I had it. swung around and proceeded to open a can of whoopa** on the BIGGEST of the gang (not the perp) pounded on him until he got the best of me.. He never bothered me again. .. until^”
Well done! I still have enough anger in me toward my school tormentors that I believe I would stomp them to death, even today, if I had the opportunity.
Well, that’s one way to resolve the conflict.
bttt
There is nothing that can be handled in a school hallway that can’t be handled after dark wearing a ski mask. So much random crime these days.
I have similar stories. I was just a quiet kid, not even nerdy, but that was enough to be a bully-magnet anyway. From elementary to junior high, I smacked down half a dozen of the creeps after they refused to leave me alone. Two mothers called my mom after their angels lost some teeth. My mom said, “Then tell your kid to stay away from my son.” and hung up. By high school most of the bully types were mellowed out on drugs.
As I posted - it works.
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