Posted on 03/15/2011 9:44:34 AM PDT by MissTed
Create vouchers and let parents decide where their kids attend. Schools will have an incentive to get rid of trouble makers since they will chase away prospective customers. As it is now, school administrators are taught to make no decisions that might force them to make a court appearance.
I doubt that the bullying happens when teachers or adults are around. What should the schools do?
If you were a school administrator, would you want to go to court everytime a kid gets bullied?
What the article does NOT mention, is the question “Did the 7 yr old provoke the 12 yr old?”.
I’ve seen young kids(4-8 yrs old), walk up to much older (10-12 yr olds) and kick them in the shins, and hit them - then when they get their ‘reward’ - the little kid runs to the adult and claims to be picked on. They then laugh, that not only did the “bully” get abused by them, he got in trouble from the teacher too.
Wish I could say this is an isolated case - but when you have schools with zero tolerance (and zero brains) - this is the type of behavior you create and reward.
That said - a Bully typically doesn’t change his striped. He learns to hide and wait until he thinks no one is watching. But, a ‘Bully’ is a mentality of superiority, that one can abuse others for entertainment and self-gratification without remorse or retribution - this is not isolated to the older kids. Younger kids are learning to manipulate the system.
Sadly, this is completely believable.
By chance, does Wayne Brady have a child at this school....?
20 years ago, when my son started high school, he was bullied unmercifully from almost day one. His locker was taped shut, his book bag stolen and thrown somewhere near the gym, he was ambushed by the bullies after school and tried to beat him up, but he did a number on them instead. We went to the school principal and were asked if our son was doing something to egg this on! We were dumbfounded. The principal said they would “talk” to the boys, but it did no good. They did suspend them for a few days, but the tormenting resumed when they returned.
Finally, my husband and I had enough, so my husband called the police and the students were pulled out of class and brought to the principal’s office while they awaited their parents arrival. They were arrested and we pulled our son out of this school and put him in another smaller school, where he was quite happy and made friends without the bullying that he experienced at the other school.
Instead of dodging and avoiding the problems, I would find it easier in the long run to solve the problem, even if it meant absorbing a little personal pain initially. Even if it meant I had to suspend some students and lose some state assistance that is sometimes paid based on student attendance.
Next time I saw them, one of them asked me to dance at a school function.
I have two kids in public school and this type of behavior has never happened. It sounds like very extreme cases to me. That being said, people wondered why I enrolled my daughter in Krav. Believe me, I got a lot of slack from some family members who thought “ballet” was a better girl activity. I know that she can protect herself better with what she has learned than without.
Survival of the fittest! /s
They have a right to do it.
Reparations and all.
Box cutter, where are the teachers? Box cutters are not bulling they are gang activity. Home school.
The commies will never allow vouchers. Homeschooling or private schooling is the only solution. Then, all that will be left in the PS system will be bullies.
This is no surprise to me. My son went through h*ll here before he finally managed to finish high school. He was an outsider from the start, and so was I - couldn’t get a phone call returned for anything, including volunteering. We were made the problem instead of getting any kind of help with little exception. I trusted the school to help for too long,because past experiences had been great. He ended up with an injury that required cosmetic surgery, but before we could sue the school (”nothing” was on video that the school had just installed in the halls), he took things into his own hands and was expelled and charged - in effect solving everything for the school and putting our family in a difficult place. He had never even had a parking ticket before this happened. It all worked for the good, or is now -
He is over it - and in college and doing well and has a good job - is building a good life. He is bigger and had a little more “mass” than then, and is most certainly a champion of the underdogs in life, because he has been one. I need to get as far away as possible so I don’t think about it any more - or start some kind of action group to get it out of my system.
We are on the Front Range not so far from Denver, but I don’t think it makes any difference - it’s all over the country. Administrators in the vast majority do not care about it at all unless there is threat of a lawsuit or embarrassment.
There are some really mean people in this world. And some of them start really young.
And so my question is, why are the non-blacks in the public school system?
That's not quite the point of the story. The schoold did do something: They forced the survivors of the bullying to conform to a new behavior, IOW they punished the victim.
My son has only had one brief issue but he took care of it himself.
I enrolled my son in martial arts when he was 5. He’s now a black belt.
I told him I would back him up 110% if he ever had to defend himself in school.
I instructed him to beat the ever loving hell out of anyone bullying him and to not stop even if it resulted in serious harm or worse.
The one time he did have an issue he confronted the kid in the hallway, saying as loud as he could for the kid to come on and start something with him. The kid backed down and that was that.
This year he’ll start high school. Should be interesting.
Their parents think that just because they pay the taxes that make it possible, they have a right to use the public education system.
Silly, I know, but there you have it.
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