[LaineyDee]

So you believe this is true everywhere?

15 yrs ago, I had to yank my kid out of 6th grade because he got ganged up on like this....ending up with a concussion and 4 broken ribs. His crime? Telling a black kid (8th grader) to quit hitting him with a notebook, while waiting in the busline at school.

My son was new at the school....small for his size and hadn't made any friends yet. The principal wouldn't do anything because he feared retribution from the parents of the 5 black kids who attacked my son. I pressed charges on all of them....dealt with harrassing phone calls, stalking, etc. I finally just took my son out of the school, sold our new house and moved to the country.

I didn't have that problem here, but in a small, rural community where everyone knows everybody.....things like this don't get swept under the rug for the sake of being PC. The kids made friends, both black and white....but the difference was and is...the attitude of ALL the parents.

[oceanperch]

Bump to rural small communities.

I grew up as "the cracker" and all the ass whoopins.

No way was I going to raise my son in that environment.

Now 26yrs old and we live in the same small town and he is very thankful.

Only thing to he fears is Bears.
He is convinced regardless of all the homework and Rangers who have talked to him that they can be in the forest around the home, heck if they are in other areas of the county why not.
Can't even have pictures of bears in the house as a joke.
Good thing he doesn't realize the Boomers (aka chupachra) live in tunnels all around here. Saw one and they are very scary lookin'.