The victim is s the new age bully who needs to be punished, clearly. He is probably racist or transphobic.
a few days suspension is a tiny price to pay for future years of freedom from torment in school - and a lifetime of self-respect.
Good on this kid for doing the right thing.
My dad’s rule I passed to my boys.
You start a fight, I’ll bust your butt.
You run from a fight, I’ll bust your butt.
There was an older, bigger kid on my block that picked on me all the time. I hid a billy club on the side of my house because I knew he would come back around. Sure enough he did. I grabbed the billy club and nailed him on his elbow as he was riding off on his bike. Cried like the little pussy he was.
He never touched me again.
And it's important to personalize the bullies. It's not "the school" that took no action other than suspend the kid for defending himself, it's the principal, the vice-principal and the individual teachers that took no action to stop the bullying. Then by suspending the kid for defending himself, they clearly identified themselves as bullies, too.
And if the Congress would reverse the theory of “qualified immunity” created out of thin air by the Supreme Court, every last one of these scumbags should be SUED into Bankruptcy and Homelessness.
I understood intellectually, but lacked the confidence until Jr. High.....it worked!
“For years the school has failed Drew,” she continues.
WTF didn’t the parents do something years ago? They need to take responsibility for this. That being said, good job, Drew.
Drew should have pounded him another three or four times after the slug started screaming. That would have made the message indelible.
“will result in conversations between Allison and the school that will lead to them actually taking action against this bully and others.”
The time for “conversations” is long over. Those “conversations” did no good and the harassment was allowed to go on unimpeded - even with good evidence.
I’d get a lawyer at this point. The school, school district, the bus company and driver - and principal need to all be named and sued, personally, for what they allowed to be done to this child - especially as I’m sure the school has a “no bullying” policy - and the #1 tenant of any school is to ensure the safety of its students.
Three punches is not “beating up”. I was in numerous fights as a kid, three punches is the warmup.
yes indeed.
I agree.
Public schools need significant competition, which will force them to close and be replaced by a superior range of options.
Sorry, mom, this is nothing new. Now if your boy was in the girls bathroom at the time, the school would be all over this.
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Appeasement NEVER works. Period.
The only way to stop a bully is to give it back twice as hard, or how ever much it takes to stop him or her.
I’ve had to clobber bullies on more than one occasion, but never the same one twice. A solid right cross to the jaw is a tremendous attitude adjuster.
I told my kids that if they were ever attacked, they could do what they needed to do to get out of the situation.
If they saw someone else getting attacked, same thing.
But GOD help them if I find out they ever STARETED the fight, because then they’d have me to deal with as well.
What do you do about a female bully that terrorizes a whole school and whose foster Mother is a school counselor? Kick their butt. I love my granddaughter! Yeah, they went to court, the bully and her protector were a no-show.