Posted on 02/04/2015 3:20:14 PM PST by Olog-hai
Montana legislators will consider Wednesday afternoon whether to join every other state in the nation in putting anti-bullying policy into law.
A bill being introduced by Democrat Rep. Kimberly Dudik in the Montana House Education Committee would define bullying, prohibit it in public schools and require that public school districts enact their own policies addressing bullying. […]
Julie Hertzog, director of PACER’s National Bullying Prevention Center, said most state laws enforcing bullying definitions and procedures were enacted in the mid-2000s, with updates like cyberbullying provisions being added every year. She said the laws build better environments for kids to learn and mature in.
“Law really drives the policies and practices of schools,” Hertzog said. “And the law sets standards so there are some consistencies between schools,” she added later. …
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It really doesn’t have anything to do with bullying, does it.
That would leave seven more states to go...
That will solve the problem and make it go away for sure. I'd really like to see bad hair prohibited as well. Do you think that could become a national movement?
It’s always nice when the biggest bullies (government) are worried about bullies (sigh)
Kids will never learn to overcome adversity. Protect them so they don’t get boo boos or splinters .....lets wipe their butts till their ready for food stamps and obummercare
A bullying law for our schools? Great idea!
I’m all for anything that would stop teachers, administrators, school boards and other educrats from bullying our children with Common Core, crappy MObama lunches, zero tolerance policies, teaching and promoting queer sex, and a whole host of other liberal tactics that only serve to dumb down our children.
Yeah there are bullies in our schools. Adult bullies.
That’s they’re not their.
The gay ribbon bullies are at it again.
“WHO won’ wear da ribbon?!!!”
They need to rewrite this to control the out of control bullying of the Gaystapo. Kids grow out of bullying or leave schools where bullies roam. Gay bullies will never leave anyone alone and have the full power of the federal government on their side..
If used to be better when you could pummel any kid who insulted you. No adult intervention needed.
I seem to remember that in my small town all the bullies eventually got their asses kicked. Usually by someone smaller and meaner.
Agreed. I have always said, how are kids supposed to learn how to overcome adversity if they’re never allowed to fail?
I have no idea why some consider harassment acceptable as long as it’s kids harassing each other. The same behavior by an adult would have serious repercussions and even land him in jail.
Bullies pick victims that they know cannot fight back. They not only harass the victim, they recruit others to harass the victim. I’ve heard of instances where parents of victims have gone to the extreme of moving to get their child away from the bullying situation. That is utterly wrong—no one should have to move because of an abusive bully.
I get really tired of this attitude that victims of bullies should just suck up and take the abuse (and that they’re weak crybabies if they don’t). Really? Why should any victim of abuse just learn to take it? Or that they should somehow fight back—usually said by some guy who is so big that no one would dare try to bully him.
Victims of bullying sometimes feel so helpless that they end up committing suicide. Other victims of bullying end up with psychological problems for the rest of their lives—unable to ever form lasting relationships, unable to make friends, unable to work at a steady job.
Bullying is not a case of “kids will be kids.” It is as serious as any other kind of child abuse, and the fact that it is perpetrated by a child does not change that fact.
Good for Montana, that it is finally addressing the problem.
I haven’t heard anyone say that the victims of bullies should take the abuse.
And this isn’t the first time you’ve said that more government is the solution.
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Maybe if the present crop of metrosexualized woosies had learned to fight back instead wearing pink shirts on Thursday, they wouldn’t need the collective herd to pass a law for protectification whilst being edumacated by their state keepers.
Maybe not in this particular thread, but I've seen plenty of other threads where someone mouths off and says that the victims should just learn to deal with it--which is essentially the same as telling them to shut up, quit complaining, and bear it.
Extending criminal law to cover crimes committed by a juvenile when they are already crimes when adults commit them is hardly claiming that "more government is the solution." I'm a conservative, not a libertarian, so I happen to support the constitutional functions of government--which include taking actions against criminal activity.
Nah. They put stickers on the doors, and your kid gets beat up in the locker room by a half dozen ferals and they don’t do anything unless your kid is a faggot. If the (victim) kid is queer, they’d respond with lights and sirens to any imagined (verbal) insult. It is bullsh*t.
Don't be fooled by the fact that the MSM only discovered bullying when it turned out that some of the victims were those accused of having a gender-related mental illness. (I'm not convinced that teens can be aware of having that mental illness, but that's a topic for another discussion.) Bullying existed LONG before the media started glorifying the "LBGT" type of mental illness. Only about 1-2% of the adult population identifies as "LBGT", but 17% of kids report being the victims of bullying 2 or 3 times per month.
Kids who get bullied are usually small and timid; they often are bad at sports but very good at intellectual activities. Bullies pick them for the precise reason that they cannot fight back. It's no different than parents abusing children or spousal abuse.
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