Why would you send your kid back to a school where they were bullied?
Bullies nor any other troublemakers do not get expelled anymore. If your child is targeted, remove them from the school immediately. Your child is not special to the state school.
Good question. They do need to be taught to have a thick skin. I taught mine to care only what carefully chosen friends think of them, and then that with a grain of salt.
Guessing he planned this well before returning to school.
Very bad advice. Being kind to cruel kids doesn’t work. A good ass kicking works. Teach your kids to be strong. Teach your kids to be somewhat disagreeable. The kindness part will take care of itself.
A n equally good question is what is wrong with the schools. A parent of a bullied kid should a registered letter describing the situation to the principal. Then if the bullying continued, sue everyone involved.
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Should have given the kid an Ar 15 to take on his first day back
They were no different 50 years ago.
I put up with a lot of crap from bullies.
Why that mother even thought of sending her son to school knowing what he would be facing, is beyond me.
If a bully was doing that to my kid, they wouldn’t do it again. I raised my kids to be friends with loners and the bullied.
It’s not the kids nor bullies. Always had both.
What they don’t have is adults enforcing the rules strictly and not in a punish both kids when they get in a fight.
Teachers know who the bad eggs are but won’t disciple them h cause it’s “racist”
The boy’s mom says it’s sad for her. Really? That’s it? Sad? How about outraged? If this happened to my kid, I would become a holy terror to everyone at that school demanding answers and accountability.
There are a lot of mean kids there days, as has always been the case. There may have been something about this sad young fellow that invited bullying. I do not excuse it. The article is rather vague.
My Unrequested Speculations:
I’m trying to guess what he was being harrassed about. He was 13 y/o, yes? He has the physique and appearance of an 8 year old boy. He is wearing the clothes a young child would wear. Perhaps he was not well socialized.
Some Home Schooling parents don’t take advantage of the groups and activites available for kids to mix with their peers. Was this a single parent family? We don’t know.
My guess is this kid had never been in anything resembling a fight or an argument where he was expected to respond vs run away from.
I have heard of some folks say they were bullied as children, and they responded with humor every so often.
That would take the ‘permanent sting’ out of shouted insults. Perhaps this poor guy never learned to not take the teasing so deeply.
Something must be wrong with me.
I fought everybody and probably lost more fights than I won.
But I’m sure bullies didn’t want to screw with me at all after their first attack.
What’s wrong with schools that allow it for years?
I had some problems with bullying in grade school. The school handled it quickly.
Now the schools protect the bully and suspend the kid that finely kicks the bully’s ass.
(My 6 foot 2 15 year old gental giant had finely had enough and laid the bully out)
I made sure he had the time of his life during his suspension
Nope, didn't make before the "beat-up the bully" fantasy freepers shit on this kid.
Time for wrongful death suit.
One of mine- the worst was Kg teacher. Teachers can be bullies. Hello. I took the kid out in two days. Out of another school next year. They teachers let her wander the parking lot after school 6 years old bed neighborhood
Outttt!!!
Home school
I tell kids - girls do not have a family with a guy who cannot provide so you can stay home w the kids if you need to or want to
Period. Otherwise you’re slaves to your boss
My boss was my kids.
Private school, public. Catholic. All the rounds
You have no leverage if they don’t think you’ll pull your kid and your 30k out
1st day of HS the report of a bully. Principal the next day stealth visit the kid still doesn’t know The victim cannot know the parent went to bat. The other kids would be ruthless. Principal said thanks for telling me- Did
the principal want to know details. Nope
Next day kid was expelled. I think it was do you want Tge kid expelled? Or do you want to pull him out?
Otherwise we would have gone
The principal knew they had to choose. Keep the bully or the victim. That’s all. No emotion. No excuses. Choose one or the other. Now.
I ao not know. There are no words for this, there is no way the awful pain will ever really go away for mom, dad, sister, etc, The people who were responsible most likely thought of it as just ‘fun’. Casual cruelty is such an easy thing to get into. But this is just beyond tragic and into a universe of meaningless cruelty for its own sake.
If only this boy had had a father at home.