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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Can he put a Confederate flag sticker on it?
If my kid was being bullied I'd find out what he was doing wrong and correct him. If he wasn't doing anything wrong then I'd tell him to defend himself. If some other parent's kid was being picked on I'd tell them to tell their kid the same thing.
I think kids should try to solve their own problems. If the parents need to talk about it that is fine. I would want to know if my kid was acting out of line.
Like “roll” in the hay model? :-D
Rapists also perform a service by teaching women to be more careful. Thank God for rapists.
I'm a boy, I'm a boy
But my ma won't admit it
Christ is for the weak you know, and not a good role model.
Explain how abhorrent, abnormal, socially unwholesome behaviour is akin to wearing a jersey with Jesus Christ on it.
Two sides of the same coin, really, just a difference in what you and the other guy think makes for a Wuss.
“a 9-year-old North Carolina boy who was being teased at school for wearing a “girlie” My Little Pony backpack to school”
“Teasing” is society’s way of telling you to get with the program. Teasing is society’s immune system. Without it you end up with a country full of freaks and wierdos. Sound familiar?
Geez - you're awfully worked up about a stupid backpack.
Kids are getting teased for not hanging out with the cool queers. That’s all good, too, I guess since “getting with the program” now includes accepting sodomy as normal, right?
I’ve seen no reports of any physical confrontations over the backpack. Everything that’s being called “bullying” is described as his being teased over it. Apparently teasing is the new bullying.
I don’t like it either, but I think part of the reason some latch on to it is that in this pretty much spiritually dead culture, it is one of the very few platforms where virtues - however simple and simplistically - are promoted. I think that is also why it triggers so much real hatred. Its short, juvenile steps towards decency are more than some denizens of this inhuman culture can stand.
I really don’t know. I am trying to make sense of the passions it arouses, as it seems a vapid and grating cartoon, although it does promote entry level morality in a viciously amoral culture.
Disagreeing with a liberal is the new bullying.
Because I think some girl setxting pics of her genitals is waaaayyyyy worse than him using Rainbow Dash as his screen saver.
“Grayson Bruce”
Boy, that name alone will entice bullies, I wouldn’t risk the backpack too if I were him.
Someone needs to warn that girl via her parents that that is a felony in some jurisdictions. Trashy pranks need to be dealt with, but sanctimonious scolds and stonethrowers have cranked it up to a -felony-
You can get a Marine assault pack at armygear.net for @$30. That’s what my son has. They last.
Well, then how could the school ban parents from sending boys in wearing a dress? This is not primarily about the school or even the child. This is more about the parents and particularly the father (if he’s present in the home, but if he wasn’t, it wouldn’t surprise me). I’ve made my views on public school clear in other threads, they’re indoctrination centers that produce crappier results than alternatives.
Let’s say this happened in 1954 in a little public school in, say, Arkansas. What would the media reaction have been? Would they have focused on the school, or the kid? No, they’d have been asking where the hell the father was,and if the mother was mentally competent. I think the criticism is mainly directed at the crap that passes for parenting in this country nowadays.
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