Posted on 04/21/2012 3:41:34 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
A nine-year-old Colorado boy has reportedly been suspended from his elementary school after standing up to a bully who was physically harming him.
Nathan Pemberton, a third grade student, claims that he was subject to beatings from another child and when he finally garnered the courage to stand up for himself he was punished and removed from West Elementary School in Colorado Springs, which his parents think is ludicrous, according to Mail Online.
"One kid kicked me in the back, then punched me in the face. Then I punched him in the face and then I got in trouble," Nathan told KDVR-TV.
Nathan had previously complained to the school about the constant bullying, but his parents claim that he did not receive the right assistance to properly resolve the problem.
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Public schools, ruining generation after generation, one life at a time.
He started it....
..and we wonder why this nation is going down the crapper....
The bully started it and the victim finished it. The only thing a bully understands is a fist in the face, and suddenly, the 10 watt bulb in their head goes on and they realize they can get hurt trying to push other people around. At some point he’ll mess with the wrong person and end up seriously hurt or maybe dead. Tough way to learn, but then again, i knew some guys growing up that the only way you could get them to pay attention or stop doing the wrong thing was with a 2x4. Oh well, not everybody can be an Einstein, I guess.
I’ve been in the same spot as this kid. Got tired of getting pushed around by the school yard bully in elementary school and fought back. I had tried “following the rules” by going to the teacher twice and she basically told me to go away. So, I punched back and got creamed and in trouble.
In the end, it was still worth it, though. I didn’t win the fight by any means, but I popped the creep a good one in the mouth and he never bothered me again.
I teach 3rd grade in a public school in Texas. I always tell my kids that if they bully someone, expect their victim to one day get tired of it and fight back. I also tell them that when they do, don’t come crying to me. Obviously any bullying that I see I immediately nip in the bud, but I cannot be everywhere and see everything.
Liberal Nathan would know from national politicians to engage surrogates to do all the fighting back, and another stuttering kid to speak for him, in order to maintain plausible deniability, while blaming the previous administration of teachers for the unprecedented bullying he inherited.
Even in CO Spgs., no good deed goes unpunished.
The parents are right. Self defense is not a crime, this kid was punished even though he did nothing wrong.
What's worse, the school did nothing about the bullying (that's what I got from the article), but all of a sudden decided to enforce some zero tolerance policy only when the kid fought back.
The schools think they're above the law, and can enforce any law any way they like for whomever they wish to enforce it for. Guess what, until they are held accountable for this, they're right.
Any takers?
School is a crime.
Why is it so difficult to get a reasonable decision out of school personnel? The answer is simple. The schools of education and journalism in our colleges and universities have the lowest average ACT and SAT scores in the schools. They are the intellectual dumping grounds. If you can’t make it in almost any other field then take either of the above mentioned. It is sad but it is true.
You know, at my print shop we’re making books for an 80 year old woman, and she told us that bullying was nothing new (shocking, right?). You just had to develop a backbone and fight back. She told me she stood up a boy almost twice her size. As she put it, “I went psycho on him.” She leaped onto him, scratching his face, pulling out his hair, knocked him to the ground and smashed his face into the dirt. She was never suspended (she actually thinks the teacher watched from the school window), and the boy never bothered her again... nor any other kid.
I too have read that Education majors have the lowest scores.
On the other hand, at my old school, the Elementary Education majors included some of the hottest girls one could imagine.
Public schools, ruining generation after generation, one life at a time.
The same kind of crap happened in Catholic schools in the 70s. I should know, I went through it.
Public schools are not perfect, by any means, but the constant bashing of them by a certain few members of this site has totally gotten out of hand.
Those that do it, and you know who you are, enjoy taking an incident here or an incident there and extrapolate it to any and every public school that exists. Guess what folks? You're wrong.
Please remember - correlation does NOT equal causation.
Those who so viciously attack us who choose to send our children to public schools or choose to work in them prove by their own words they are not the saints they wish others to believe them to be.
I had originally planned to comment on the ridiculousness of this situation, but the immediate public school bashing tossed all thoughts of that out the window.
You defeat your purpose with the constant bashing, since the vast majority of it is irrational.
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When moral absolutes coming from God are rejected, then human invention replaces Right and Wrong. And since humans without God's wisdom are notoriously wicked and deceitful, now Up is Down, Good is Bad, and so on. To torment another child is tolerated, but the tormented child defending himself - Bad!! Just like Zimmerman should have allowed himself to be killed. Schools are designed to make children immoral, crazy and stupid.
Uh-uh. This exact thing happened to my nephew in a parochial grade school. I was furious! We started home teaching the next year, and his learning curve shot up!
Just take your kids out of public schools.
It will help the taxpayers too.
Take the kid to an amusement park and get him some boxing gloves.
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