Posted on 03/21/2014 11:22:12 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Earlier this week, I wrote about a 9-year-old North Carolina boy who was being teased at school for wearing a “girlie” My Little Pony backpack to school. Administrators at Hyatt Elementary initially tried to solve the problem by telling Grayson Bruce to not wear his beloved backpack, telling him was a “trigger for bullying.”
But then a social media firestorm ensued. Grayson’s mom, Noreen Bruce, launched a Support for Grayson Facebook page, attracting over 70,000 fans, and people all over the world wrote in messages telling the boy that his love for My Little Pony is awesome. Men posted images of themselves holding pony dolls. Media outlets across the country picked up the story and it sounds like the folks over at Hyatt Elementary heard the outcry because they’ve changed their minds and are letting Grayson wear his Rainbow Dash backpack to school.
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I debated whether or not to point it out - be nice and ignore it, and be nit picky and teach? In the end, nit picky won out. ;-)
You distilled it perfectly. This is how kids learn to sort things out and get along in society - out in the harsh jungle of the schoolyard.
He need to be given a marine backpack and an ammo belt for his pencils, markers and weapons.
Sorry, I didn’t see this before I posted mine.
Color me skeptical. It’s society, not God, that called little ponies feminine.
Sometimes.
Instead of immediately making a stink, it would have been better for his dad to encourage the boy to say shoot yeah I like my little pony and I’m a cowboy, yeehaw, and what’s it to ya? You don’t have to go to fisticuffs to show punks that they do not impress you.
When I was young I was bullied unmercifully by a group of kids at my school. My family moved to our town in third grade so I was a new kid and wasn’t one of ‘the group’.
While walking home from school I’d be surrounded by a group of 4-5 kids and taunted. I’d fight, it wouldn’t do any good. I’d yell back, it wouldn’t do any good.
It finally stopped when I became a school patrol. One day the group was taunting me and I reached my driveway. At that point I took the metal flagpole I carried and gave my chief assailant a two-hander across the midsection so hard I bent the pole in the middle.
I then had the fight of my life — but in my own driveway where my dad could see what was happening. At that point it all stopped.
In my judgment the school acted properly by removing the source of the distraction. But I don’t care how many bullies there are, the district has the obligation to punish each and every one. I took matters into my own hands, which is the way it used to be done, but if districts aren’t going to let kids handle things the old-fashioned way, they have to take decisive action.
The homosexuals hijacked the rainbow as their badge of honor so to speak. I only recognize natural rainbows. Anything else is an attempt by the homosexuals to use something that all kids identify with to spread their filth.
Do like the military. Have a list of approved backpack colors. Plain solid colors, no logos, no pics, no writing etc. Only name tag authorized on said backpack.
I watch the kids cartoons but it’s for quality control and I only watch what them lil ones watch. Anything with a political slant or homosexual undertones gets zotted.
That makes sense. Private schools have dress codes and they don’t seem to have this sort of trouble, at least not that is publicized.
Private school have a reputation and profit margin to protect. They have issues but the parents and schools find a happy medium to resolve matters. If you can’t get it fixed it’s a simple matter of finding somewhere else to spend your money.
I apply the same responsibility that I faced for years with my business. A company can't allow a hostile work environment. The school has the same responsibility.
What I found as I confronted a bullying situation at school was the administrators had no concept of that role. The they walk a different minefield when it comes to these issues but that does not absolve them of the need to make sure the kids have a safe environment.
An 18 year-old MAN who likes “My Little Pony”? Oy,vey.It's not my way to question a man's interest, be it hunting or gardening.
The thing is, I don't recall any 18 year old males who were into Pound Puppies. Do you?Never knew any myself, but I'm referring to someone the age of the boy in the article. I did know a man who was a "Welcome Back Kotter" fan. Even had the action figures mint-in-box.
Reading this thread and the article which occasioned it, I'm not surprised that so many young men behave as though they never came in contact with testosterone.I always question that sentiment. Reminds me of my father, who I never cottoned much to. "MEN don't do track, they do football." "MEN don't cook, that's woman's work." "MEN don't use computers. That's for nerds. REAL MEN work with their hands." "MEN don't read books, they go hunting." So on and so forth. Well, call it a difference of opinion and leave it at that.
No idea where you grew up but where I did the vast majority of the teasing (they call it bullying these days) was from friends.Grew up in Georgia. Most teasing came from my family. I made sure to repay it seven for one. Friends of mine didn't tease. If they did, they quickly ceased being friends of mine. I never took well to teasing. Everyone I ever knew who teased did so because as, at heart, they had a streak of cruel in them. I prefer not to know cruel people if I can help it.
It was rare for someone you didn’t know to say or do anything to you once you were out of first or second grade.I can't say the same. I would see whole classes descend on some unfortunate in high school, for no reason other than they were an albino or wore especially thick glasses. It was sad and illustrated how mankind is by default selfish and cruel.
Wear something stupid and you were hounded all day even the teachers got in on the action.I think you were in high school about 15-20 years before I was. A teacher engaging in such in my time (early 90s) tended to end up in front of the County Board of Ed and getting their butt fired.
Times have changed my friend but not for the better. Sad to say but that kid is headed for hard times later in life.
And there you just confessed your problem. You let homosexuals dominate any rainbow artwork. That’s damned wimpy. It’s time to recapture the territory.
I’d begin possibly by suggesting a “straight” symbol (which can apply equally to marrieds or virtuous singles). A target painted with its rings in rainbow colors, and an arrow in its bulls-eye.
Do we really need symbols? Their use of the rainbow or whatever they want to use just lets me know who to avoid.
Do we need symbols?
Ask any church. Are crosses important?
Ask a Jew. What if we did away with the Star of David?
Ask a Marine. What’s the US flag?
You’ve just stepped into doo-doo here, deep doo-doo.
"The thing is, I don't recall any 18 year old males who were into Pound Puppies. Do you?"
"Never knew any myself, but I'm referring to someone the age of the boy in the article."
But you were responding directly to a Freeper's statement that her 18 year old son likes My Little Pony. It's just an interest, you said, and Pound Puppies were the thing back in your day. I pointed out that Pound Puppies fans were kids, not young men.
"I always question that sentiment. Reminds me of my father, who I never cottoned much to. "MEN don't do track, they do football." "MEN don't cook, that's woman's work." "MEN don't use computers. That's for nerds. REAL MEN work with their hands." "MEN don't read books, they go hunting." So on and so forth. Well, call it a difference of opinion and leave it at that."
Well, you can question whatever you like, but the fact remains that many if not most of the young men you see today look almost as feminine as the girls. We're in trouble when adult males are prancing and flitting around, gushing over cartoon ponies.
I feel sorry for decent young women like my niece, a gorgeous, down to earth Christian girl who loves nothing better than her guns and hunting. I don't envy her, being stuck with a pool of such weak, feminized pseudo-males.
Then again, this is the South. We grow real men down here, so her chances are somewhat better.
I’m not into symbols.
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