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There was a fight between two middle-school boys. This is not a new thing. I think it’s unfortunate, but many men would disagree, believing that fights between boys are a natural part of growth, and that preventing them results in the feminization of all sorts of things. (Fistfights between boys happen even in homeschools.)
What is new, however, is the quick recourse to social media by the mother. I can imagine a situation in which institutional schooling suffers considerable losses of personnel because every academic or discipline situation ends up as a public madhouse.
Most time the school suspends the victim of a bullying attack because fighting or some other inane excuse.
They are indeed.
Because the schools of today are like still like the schools of the sixties and seventies. If you didn’t have a fortunate upbringing then all of this sounds familiar.
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My kid had a craft knife pulled to his throat that was grabbed off of the teacher’s desk. Teacher turned a blind eye. It was my son telling the coach what happened. SRO got involved and the kid was sent to detention. Kid used to bring porn into school as well.
I don’t know any details, but a friend of mine posted that his son was almost killed by a bully at school. Young scumball put drugs in his food. Several days in the hospital followed.
teachers are well aware of bullying, they aren’t blind. they know, and yet they not only ignore bullying, they actively side with the bullies. been going on for decades
Nice to see the future Democrats in action.
Hmmm. Was this a government school?
Buehler? Buehler?
Not prepared to blame the teacher. Why didn’t the kid find the teacher after school and ask what he had done to take care of it? Why didn’t he call his parents and ask for an escort home? Nor does it say how far from the school the altercation happened. I am no fan of public school teachers but I don’t think this should be a case of shaming a teacher instead of the bully himself.
Reminds me of an incident that happened to me in Junior High (now called Middle School) PE class. We had been playing softball when a student (I still remember his name), unprovoked, threw a softball (not that soft) hard into the back of my head. I turned to complain and asked why he did it, whereupon he hit me in the face. I could have (should have?) fought him after that but I decided to tell the PE teacher (coach)instead, which I did. He merely shrugged and said “you’re not hurt are you?” and walked off.