Kids can’t defend themselves nowadays. If they do, then they are the ones’ to get kicked out. I know I’ve been there and my son has been there. Schools are worthless when it comes to protecting the innocent.
“Kids can’t defend themselves nowadays. If they do, then they are the ones’ to get kicked out”
Absolutely correct. I’ve told my kids they are free to defend themselves regardless of the consequences. Of course we homeschool now but the rule stood while they were in public.
Back when my youngest son was in middle school, there were these two boys who thought they were hot stuff and they started messing with him, especially on the bus. Finally, one day he had enough and when challenged, he beat the crap out of one of the bullies, with my blessing. Both my son and the bully received the exact same punishment for fighting, regardless of the history and circumstances.
I knew what was going on and countered the school's lack of common sense by not punishing my son. Just to clarify, I didn't encourage him to become a bully himself, but to defend himself.
BTW, my son played football and also started power lifting and also wrestled. He countered the bullying crap by developing himself. He became a New York State Champion in power lifting in his senior year of high school and he plays college football now for a school out in the mid-west.
Lesson to be passed on. If your kid is getting bullied, encourage them to develop themselves through weight training, self defense training and stand with them when they defend themselves, especially at school, because they will get in as much trouble as the bullies, but after they get their butts kicked, the bullies will leave them alone. That's the only thing that works.
When I was a young {13 yr old} teenager a 16 year old bully took pleasure pushing the younger kids around.
He was a head taller and 50 lbs heavier than I was.
When I decided that I'd enough, I got two rolls of pennies and put leather gloves on.
When I saw him after school, I walked straight over to him, looked right at him as he dared me to hit him and I punched him "in the groin area".
I beat the hell out of him and I was a hero to all of the younger folks.
It's wasn't the Marquis of Queensberry rules but I didn't plan on letting him beat me up again.
Neither my buddies nor I cared that I had an equalizer but if that happened today, I'd go to jail.
The bully boy didn't mess with us younger kids even though he found out that I'd used weighted gloves to pummel him.