The bullying issue in schools has become a pc timebomb.
Two years ago, we knew a couple, whose daughter was bullied. The mother is Mexican American, and the Dad is African American. The girls, who bullied her were blacks and Hispanics. Her guilt, she was smart, did her homework and never caused problems at school.
I suggested to the parents they get some evidence of the bullying. They had relatives, and uncle and aunt in a separate vehicle video tape their daughter being bullied and basically assaulted after they dropped her off at the middles school.
The relatives were in a separate vehicle and got close to the action. The aunt taped the bullying. It got so bad, the aunt got out of their vehicle and hollered at the bullies that they were being video taped. Their response was the famous one finger salute. While they were saluting, their niece ran into the school.
When the parents of the poor girl talked to the principal, he refused to do anything even when shown the tapes. I suggested they tell him and the superintendent to do something or they would show the video to the cops, file charges and post a copy on You Tube. They met the superintendent and showed him the video.
The school administration’s response was to change her school and bus her to another school. That was an extra 15 minute ride each way for her, and she was the innocent one. The bullies remained in the school and continued to bully others.
A similiar incidence happened in an elementary school where the kids of younger relatives go. A girl being bullied was white, and she was being bullied by a mixed group. The girl’s parents had visiting grandparents tape the bullying from their vehicle.
This school administration’s response was the same. The girl being bullied was transferred to a school 30 minutes away versus her current school which was minutes away and could be walked to with good weather. Her family sold their home and moved back to a small midwest city.
Our younger relatives at this school have a son who is a jock like his dad, uncles and his mother. So he hangs around with other small jocks, sometimes they tackle each other or dare to kick a soccer ball at each other. Several times they have been supposedly called in for bullying when they tackled each other. The last time all of the parents went to the principle’s office told him bs. There was no bullying, these were just normal boys, who were young jocks playing. He said that he still had to write them up. One of Dads of the “bad” young jocks asked his lawyer brother about it. He was told the principle needed some paperwork showing that he was on top of any bullying.
I think when the district’s solution was to inconvenience the victim/remove her from her friends, I would have threatened to take it to the DA and see if I couldn’t make it into a criminal matter. The bullies should have been the ones inconvenienced. If the bullies get thrown out of every school where they bully others, either they’ll stop or it’ll end up as a de facto expulsion.