Public schools, ruining generation after generation, one life at a time.
He started it....
..and we wonder why this nation is going down the crapper....
I’ve been in the same spot as this kid. Got tired of getting pushed around by the school yard bully in elementary school and fought back. I had tried “following the rules” by going to the teacher twice and she basically told me to go away. So, I punched back and got creamed and in trouble.
In the end, it was still worth it, though. I didn’t win the fight by any means, but I popped the creep a good one in the mouth and he never bothered me again.
Liberal Nathan would know from national politicians to engage surrogates to do all the fighting back, and another stuttering kid to speak for him, in order to maintain plausible deniability, while blaming the previous administration of teachers for the unprecedented bullying he inherited.
Even in CO Spgs., no good deed goes unpunished.
The parents are right. Self defense is not a crime, this kid was punished even though he did nothing wrong.
What's worse, the school did nothing about the bullying (that's what I got from the article), but all of a sudden decided to enforce some zero tolerance policy only when the kid fought back.
The schools think they're above the law, and can enforce any law any way they like for whomever they wish to enforce it for. Guess what, until they are held accountable for this, they're right.
Any takers?
Why is it so difficult to get a reasonable decision out of school personnel? The answer is simple. The schools of education and journalism in our colleges and universities have the lowest average ACT and SAT scores in the schools. They are the intellectual dumping grounds. If you can’t make it in almost any other field then take either of the above mentioned. It is sad but it is true.
You know, at my print shop we’re making books for an 80 year old woman, and she told us that bullying was nothing new (shocking, right?). You just had to develop a backbone and fight back. She told me she stood up a boy almost twice her size. As she put it, “I went psycho on him.” She leaped onto him, scratching his face, pulling out his hair, knocked him to the ground and smashed his face into the dirt. She was never suspended (she actually thinks the teacher watched from the school window), and the boy never bothered her again... nor any other kid.
Just take your kids out of public schools.
It will help the taxpayers too.
Take the kid to an amusement park and get him some boxing gloves.
Looks like we have to redefine “bullies”.
My son has been instructed to beat the snot out of anyone if they try picking on him. He might get in trouble at school, but he gets one get out of jail free card at home. Fortunately, he has not been a target thus far and I doubt he ever will be. He is very likable.
Son, you just keep punching those bullies in the mouth.
You’ll grow up just fine.
Parents: If you love your children get them out of the government schools.
Do whatever you have to.
I told my kids you gotta bully a bully. I coached my daughter on how to handle one particular queen bee and it worked.
...Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in,
Bear’t that the opposed may beware of thee. —Hamlet
I was bullied in grade school. Back in 1974, I was in 2nd grade, I used to get picked on by this one kid. Mom told me that I had to defend myself or she would clobber me. The next time he picked on me, I slugged him back and we both got sent to the principal’s office and we got paddled. After that we became friends but I was scared that I’d get punished at home because of the paddling at school. I kept quiet. 1 day passed, then 2, then 3, then months and finally 20 years later, in 1994 I confessed. Mom said she would not have punished me and just today, if she knew this went on, she’d go up to school to raise Holy Hell. I figured even then, I would not have been punished but you got to remember, “8 yer old kid logic takes over” and you clam up.
When I attended school in the 50s and 60s, the public schools were excellent as was discipline.
The only teacher with a real political agenda was Mr. Hester and he was extremely right wing so I got along with him just fine.