Posted on 12/07/2019 4:25:13 PM PST by NohSpinZone
A Missouri mother’s unapologetic Facebook post on Monday defending her son’s decision to fight back against a bully has gone viral.
Allison Davis posted a selfie picture of her son, Drew, who was suspended from school for “beating up the kid that has been tormenting and bullying him since middle school.”
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Take kid to Disney while suspended
“Take kid to Disney while suspended.”
Then teach him how to shoot.
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Well there goes that theory. The school is run by a bunch of feckless ninnies then.
Good on you, Drew. I hate a bully, and I had educators that punish people who protect themselves against bullies.
Where do I get my donut?
I wasn’t aloud to hit, not for any reason, not even for self defense. So one day walking home from school Vinny was again bullying me, I turned around and there he was in my face - so I pushed him! Vinny landed butt first into a galvanized trash can and got stuck!
Funniest thing I ever did in my whole life :)
Not necessarily.
Sometimes they are a kid that’s big for their age but they’re clumsy, or have trouble learning, or older kids are bullying, or they suffer abuse at home, or they’re just mean.
In the school system I grew up in most of the bullies were the athletes and that had gradually come to be the case over the years because they discovered that there would be no punishment whatever they did and they began competing at bullying other kids.
Absolutely.
About time.
Give the kid a medal.
“In the school system I grew up in most of the bullies were the athletes and that had gradually come to be the case over the years because they discovered that there would be no punishment whatever they did and they began competing at bullying other kids.”
We need to teach kids the seven magic words: “I will hit you with this brick.”
Issues that used to get resolved between a parent and a school principal are now adjudicated by millions on social media.
My daughter was plagued by a bully. The usual “ignore him”, “tell the teacher”, “avoid him” did not work. It was mostly pokes, and prods, and name calling so I thought it best if she tried these first. Mostly because I knew the school had a zero tolerance policy and she would get in just as much trouble for defending herself as he did for instigating things.
But he continued despite my daughters attempts to just steer clear. Finally I told her that next time he bothered her she had my permission to slug him. To make sure the school knew this I went to the office and told them so. “I know if she does this you will call me and tell me to pick her up for the rest of the day. I will do that. And I will take her out for ice cream as many scoops as she likes.” The office lady thought that was great.
I was a lanky skinny kid, had a fat kid bullying me in grade school. One day at the bike rack, I had enough. My fists started flying and next thing I knew he was on the ground bawling. We saw the principal, who I thought grinned at me a little at the end of our ‘talk’. Never got bullied again, got some rep from it. Never told my parents.
Old school, long gone. My dad was from Detroit, in his youth fisticuffs was a common way boys resolved their disputes. For millennia, actually. Until decades ago...
Bingo!! My take: let the kid take care of it as he did, and shut up! What do you have to prove advertising it on “social” media?
Schools are run along the same lines as prisons. The real problem makers never get dealt with because they keep the small fry in line.
I told my kids as they were growing up that if someone attacked them or tried to push them around, or they saw someone who needed to be defended, that they were to do whatever it took to put a stop to it, and then they were to immediately get an adult and tell me.
But I also told them God help them if I found out they were the ones who started the fight because then they'd have to deal with me.
I would not put up with them starting anything, but they sure could end it.
My son had some altercations with a couple kids who were (very stupidly) picking on him (he was build like a brick wall, not fat but solid and kids would bounce off him if they tried to knock him over). The one kid stopped after my son dumped him head first into a snowbank.
More likely the bully was in Exceptional Student Education and had an IEP. The discipline procedures for such students can vary a great deal from what is the rule for the general student population.
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