She was also told that causing a 'nuisance' at school could constitute a criminal offence and that any further incidents will be reported to police.
Posted on 07/20/2009 2:31:50 AM PDT by arbooz
A mother has been banned from a primary school after confronting a bully who used her five-year- old son as a 'human punch bag'.
Christine Hart, 38, calmly asked the pupil to 'please stop hitting' her son Arthur after he endured months of bullying despite several complaints to teachers.
But a teaching assistant saw and hauled her off to the headmistress, who told her not to cross the school gates and to attend a hearing with the governors to discuss her conduct.
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She was also told that causing a 'nuisance' at school could constitute a criminal offence and that any further incidents will be reported to police.
Yet another reason to homeschool.
...Deserves a sack over the head and a good pummeling with some phone books and be left with a warning "tell the cops and you'll get it twice as hard next time."
One more reason to avoid England.
Did she go to school in her slip?
In the UK it is a crime to interfere in the duties of a criminal or thug.
That is all.
I spent some time there in the very early 1960's (USAF) and the difference between then and now could not be more stark.
Our country just elected the Kenyan and look at the white man who is a second class citizen.
It will take a revolution, hopefully it will be peaceful for our country to be any better.
We are almost totally socialist and the Kenyan is going to go after American patriots next. England is no worse than we are.
England is no worse than we are.You're forgetting one little detail: we have guns.
Where were you stationed?
I spent some time here in the very early 1960's and the same thing can be said.
“Yet another reason to homeschool.”
Yes it is. We now have some children in the public schools who are like animals. My wife is in education, and we have kids who are so hardened at 12 or even younger that they will most likely never be rehabilitated. We have always had bullies, but over the last number of years things have changed a lot for the worse. The schools fail to remove these kids, and if another student defends himself or herself, they are apt to be punished. We are starting to see the fruits of our declining morals and the effects of the decline of the family. I am afraid it is going to be a rough ride.-—JM
I experienced frequent physical attacks along with the odious indifference of some incompetent teachers and principals who tried to put the blame on me (nevermind I was usually the smallest in class), and this was in the early ‘80s. My responding on one single occasion to a bully (punched the little punk right in the mouth, knocking him to the ground) landed me in trouble, and I refused to apologize. Ultimately, this went on for years and the stress ruined my health to the point I was vomiting every morning and I had to withdraw for the sake of my sanity by the 8th grade (had an assigned teacher for my remaining 5 years). I wouldn’t send my child to a public school at gunpoint, and if I actually did and my kid went through a fraction of what I endured, I’d have gone down to the school, grabbed that little thug and curbstomped him to Judgment Day.
“I spent some time here...”
I started school in the 60’s. I was a bad kid, I was always getting into a fight or some kind of trouble, even up till I was about 20. I was always held accountable. I was paddled in school and at home, and although this is a cliche, “I was drug to church”. I thank God now, because if I wasn’t, it scares me to think how my life would have turned out. See my reply at 14.
BTW - I turned out OK.(I guess?) I have been married to the same wonderful woman for 25 years, have 2 daughters in college and have a good job. I also lead a fellowship group at my church. If it wasn’t for the love, concern and discipline of people (family, teachers, even law enforcement!) my life would have been drastically different. They all have my love and gratitude.-—JM
Assault and battery is why we go to the police and get charges filed and people arrested, if school officials refuse to "handle the situation" on a lower level.
Just as there is a chain of command for appeal, there is a chain of redress for line weakness, without going postal.
As bad as the United States is becoming due to the minions of the poisonous anti-ethos known as PC, we can always take some variety of cold comfort from the fact that England is far, far worse.
At all events, it simply cannot be denied that there is something very, very wrong going on in virtually all of the Western nations - a kind of creeping but rampant mental illness - such that one is left scratching one’s head and wondering if it’ll ever be reversed and the human race ever get back its collective capacity for common sense.
That’s what a couple of people posted in the newspaper.
That’s what liberals do. Harass and arrest the GOOD people while leaving the irresponsible slackers alone.
Give the kid some pepper spray.
“there is a chain of redress for line weakness...”
I agree with you 100%. I certainly don’t advocate going “postal”, and situations should be handled in the system. But, the “system” often doesn’t work. While I don’t advocate violence or taking the law into our own hands, I do consider it the right of any person, regardless of age, to protect and defend themselves from violence. And, they shouldn’t be punished for trying to protect themselves from harm.-—JM
Every parent, every adult has the right to scold a badly behaving kid. This parent had every right to stop the assault and scold the bully.
In junior high, there was one particular kid who really seemed to have it in for me. One day after school let out, I was walking out the door and he came up alongside of me and just punched me. I'm not sure what happened next, but I remember letting go on him, fists flying until they pulled us apart. This time though, HE was the one crying. He never bothered me after that.
There is so much of this that goes on in our schools every day. I think I came out of it a stronger person, but many who suffer this abuse are affected by it permanently.
Take no prisoners. He ought to kick this bully in the nuts, jump on him, punch him in the face 20 times, stand up, open a window, stick his head outand say: “I’m as mad as hell and I am not going to take it anymore”.
I taught my son how to punch and kick key pain centers of his bully tormentors. After he kicked one of them in the knee, and punched the other in the throat, they soon found another victim to bother with.
Most English women dress like salty old whores.
Yep, that is the best way to handle a bully. My son had a similar experience in the 5th grade; he waited until he saw the kid go into the bathroom then followed him in and pummeled him, no more problems after that.
My other son’s 7th grade teacher fell into the anti-bullying campaign and had the kids read a book called The Misfits, which has a homo theme throughout. I spoke w/the teacher after school and told her that anti bullying was nonsense and my son had instructions from his mother and I to beat the snot out of anyone who bullies him and that if we ever heard of him bullying anyone he’d get the same from us. She was not amused.
HE would be in trouble for defending himself.
This IS the UK after all.
By the way, that was my first thought, too. But I was thinking “give the kid a ‘shiv’”.
RAF Bentwaters, Suffolk.
Let me guess, the youth doing the hitting is “Asian?”
You think that summer dress is a slip? What in the world would that have to do with this article anyway?
Even within systems of trust, there will be breakdowns and inefficiencies, but with trust, those issues can be resolved without the confrontational results (ie. banning parents).
Bottom line, the school can't have a parent interfere with it's percieved authority. Meddlesome parents are a threat. Parents cannot possibly know what is best for their child, that's what the school is for......
“trust”
I think you hit the nail on the head. I am just an old country boy, but when I was coming up, people didn’t lock their doors - even when they were going out of town. We respected and believed in our teachers, law enforcement and our neighbors. It wasn’t Mayberry, but things worked and folks trusted one another. I don’t want to sound cynical, but I no longer feel I can trust those institutions. And, even more sadly, I lock my doors because I no longer trust all of my neighbors. Thanks for your excellent reply.-—JM
I’m afraid I’m more in the latter category, since I still have nightmares over 20 years later. I saw the dysfunction of our public schools at the time and came to oppose them, because concern for children’s well being was the last thing on the order of importance. Teacher job security and leftist indoctrination/dumbed-down agenda was #1 and #2 in importance, although there were at least a few that tried to teach above-level. There really is no accountability.
I sent my son when he was in middle school to take care of a fifth grader who was beating two first grade boys every morning outside my window. It was horrendous! I did not know any of the moms.
Hey, says I to the big kid. Go over and wait with those little kids till the bus comes. They are not safe. He did and unfortunately, the fifth grader didn’t listen to him when he told the bully to stop it!
No more problems at the bus stop. In fact the fifth grader stopped going to the bus stop. Parents can’t do that.
Massive LOL.
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