Posted on 03/21/2011 1:50:08 PM PDT by Main Street
This emotional video will break your heart. Listen as this 16-year-old special needs student talks to Craig Rivera about what happened when he was punched by school bullies. Plus, find out what police are — or aren’t — doing to protect the teen.
Media Meme alert. Very predictable outrage generation method ahead. Expect more of same until the “Sheeple” demand The Federal Government Do Something About It.
Then rinse and repeat.
Or others to step in and kick some bully ass, but sissification makes that less likely.
I think that a length of broom handle ended with about a dozen seve penny nails and wrapped in duct tape would solve the problem.
It did for me.
Well, the bully is a “protected class” don’t’cha know?
Where may I ask is that? I live in metro Atlanta, but I know that my 6½-year-old son will regress in the local public school. They are not equipped for nor are they interested in advancing his development. He is in his first year of private school now, and it has done wonders for him. His communication skills have improved tremendously.
It seems pretty obvious that the principal who handled this was choosing his battles carefully. If he had expelled the attackers, a bunch of “community leaders” would have been marching, and Al Sharpton would have come to town to support them. All the special-needs kid has going for him is the dim threat of a federal injunction. When the school superintendent was asked about the matter, he chuckled that he was through with it—meaning that he had saved his own job and those of his underlings. Balancing interest groups to stay afloat is what public education is about these days. Anyone who doesn’t like it can go elsewhere, but (unfortunately) they can’t take their school taxes with them.
Can anyone tell me where this happened?
My son, who is normal but was very tall for his age was punched at a football game by a HS kid who had been told by a 3rd student that my son was making smart remarks and was from another HS (he was actually 12 but nearly 6” tall).
The puncher came an apologized profusely when he found out he’d been “punked” by the 3rd party into assaulting a twelve year old.
My point is that sometimes these altercations occur because a unseen 3rd party is manipulating the aggressor often just for personal amusement.
This is just sad. Of all the reasons to homeschool, it’s one of the better ones, isn’t it?
In Mississippi
I guarantee the perp & his buddies play sports for the school, explaining the light punishment & the refusal of police to arrest them.
I grew up in such a town. The jocks get away with “murder”. Nothing is more important to towns like these than a winning season.
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Liberal Idealology = Lord of the Flies Mentality
Craig Rivera was visibly moved interviewing him and his father. He tried to get an interview with the school principal, but got stonewalled by the school secretary.
I saw on another thread that Megyn Kelly had this on her show this morning.
That’s (one of the reasons) why we homeschool our daughter.
Why the heck is this boy is this school? Parents are either idiots or cruel. “My child HAS to be in this public school. Why? Because... that is what we are supposed to do. Right?” IDIOTS.
There are a lot of parents with kids, special needs or maybe just timid, whose kids are being abused at the school, and the parent wrings her hands, talks to the child, but drives him there the next day. Just “because.”
THERE ARE ALTERNATIVES, people!
My son with autism told me, when he was in 3rd grade, that he played a fun game with the kids in his class. They took his things, and he would get upset, and isn’t that a great game? That was his last year at school (and it was a private religious school too). He was homeschooled forever after.
Have you seen this video? It’s apparently made a lot of waves.
Boy bodyslams bully (in Australia)
http://topics.myfoxboston.com/m/37936813/boy-bodyslams-bully.htm
I agree...but some people live in areas that do not have alot of choices for school choice for special needs. And they may have to work. The law is on the autistic families side. But oh my...it pained me to watch this. Hurt me actually. I have a autistic son. He doesn’t speak as well as that boy. And I am outraged by this. I hope they can get a para - professional to help him around school and yes, to watch over him.
I live up in NW Washington state where we don't tend to get the same challenges with race relations. My reasons are pretty obvious. I don't even consider it as much a race thing as a culture thing.
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