Posted on 11/28/2008 9:16:33 AM PST by LurkedLongEnough
WATERBURY, Conn. -- Waterbury's school board has adopted a new policy to deal with school bullies quickly.
No longer must a student be involved in intimidating a student over a series of incidents to be identified as a bully. A student can be labeled a bully for as few as two incidents and these need not be against the same victim.
The new policy also comes with stronger reactions. Parents of both the victim and the bully must come and meet with school administrators, in a mediation session.
A bully can be suspended for up to 10 days or can be transferred to a new school.
The new policy is the result of a revision of the state's bullying laws, which lower the threshold for being labeled a bully.
Do NOT send your kids, grandkids to any “publick skools”! If you love them, and I mean really love them, you just won’t ever do it! Seriously.
As a kid as well as a parent, my bully policy was recommending a series of hard, fast and unwavering punches to the bully’s face. Sure ... I got into trouble with the edukaytors but the bullying stopped for some reason ... LOL!
Not all public schools are bad. I live in a rural area in the midwest and I have to say my boys elementary school is excellent. They are two years ahead of where I was at their age. It is a conservative area of the country and the school board reflects the demographic. We moved here from Ga. just to get away from some of the horror stories we had been hearing about the public schools there.
And not in Waterbury, Connecticut at any rate!
Should a kid be attacked two times by different bullies, and resist, he can be tossed on the street.
This sort of thing is so common in New England and other Liberal dominated areas it raises serious questions about keeping those places in the Union.
I thought people weren't supposed to be labeled, because it hurts their feelings.
Your post makes way more sense (in terms of how this will actually work) than the article.
Of course the local school district here has had it in place for many years ~ your kid gets attacked and beaten at school, Fairfax County kicks him out for 10 days as well.
Doesn't even matter if he or she fought back.
Exactly. I had several personal experiences of that nature.
Seems like they stop bullying when you start punching....wierd.....
Its even better when they are bullying someone else and you start punching. Makes it kindve hard to tell your soft targets from your hard targets....
wonder if anyone has done any govt. Studies on that?
:-)
I contend that they are due to the watered-down curricula. (I believe you when you say that there exist “good schools”, with good people, etc., but what do you get when good people are pushing a bad product/bad curriculum? Answer: Our dumbed-down schools.)
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