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Re: Bullying? Are you nuts?
Dec 15, 2008 8:04 PM
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Yes schools must stop bullying. Kids have enough to worry about outside school grounds. Bullying leads to physical confrontation. If I'm being bullied, you "betcha" I'm goinna strike back.
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Re: Bullying? Are you nuts?
Dec 10, 2008 3:56 PM
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babygirl1979
LOL! That story just made my day! Thanks for sharing!
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Re: Bullying? Are you nuts?
Dec 10, 2008 3:50 PM
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I agree anna i have a bad taste in my mouth when I think back to how uppity those people all were. Alot of them used their money against the rest of us without. It was bitter - sweet to know that my mom drove a beater and the girl in my grade 10 math class drove a convertible that her dad bought her for passing. The sweet part came in one day as per usually she sneered at my mom's car and drove off .....right into a parked car lmao it was a beautiful day.
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Re: Bullying? Are you nuts?
Dec 10, 2008 3:18 PM
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I love the term "good" school-my son attended high school at one of those so called good schools and recently the little rich boys and girls were busted for lunchtime home robbery ring they had going.
They also liked to ride around in mommy and daddy's SUV's after school and jump the kids that are walking home from school-but not before calling them losers from having to WALK home.
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Re: Bullying? Are you nuts?
Dec 10, 2008 11:58 AM
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I agree with you that the schools should do more. When i was in my first high school (and yes there were a few) I was told i was in the best one. It was where all the upper class kids went. Each area and school has there own individual problem with fighting ....this one was horrid. There was this club called the brookswood boys where a bunch of guys who were and had graduated ran the younger up an coming fighters. You had to be in the know not to get picked on.....some of these guys were in there mid - twenties oh and as a girl you were protected and popular if you dated one.
The teachers and principle would stand aside until the fight was decided. I saw people hit in class, in their desks and the teachers not do ANYTHING.
I thought this was how all schools were until i hit my last one that was filled with kids who if you were academically smart you were popular ...what a shift! There were still a few fights but the ratio was 2 or 3 a year opposed to the 100's that were happening in the other one.
The difference?? zero tolerance and it was enforced! The kids felt safe. I believe it is a community issue and everyone needs to be involved to stop it. Parents, teachers, police officers ....everyone.
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Dec 10, 2008 11:40 AM
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Yes the schools should do MORE to intervene. It's simple. There is so much positive stressed about how teachers, parents, authority figures, and so on are supposed to be the most influential people in our children's lives as they grow. SO why shouldn't the schools intervene more on bulling?
I have a 17 year old brother who was discussing this with me yesterday. He said that the principle makes all students in the school go to commons (lunch room) while waiting for classes to begin in the morning so that they are not hanging out in the halls fighting. Well there are still fights in the commons hall also. What was the point? A boy he knew was punched in the nose and started bleeding. This is in a rather GOOD school.
My response is that if something like this ever happens to my kids, I will definitely be up at the school and my question will be first asking what the school intends to do and what can they do to prevent it from happening again to any student? My statement would go along to say that what if my son brought a gun to school for protection? Then what would they do? I am not promoting guns and I would kick my sons *** if he did, but the point is that, as unreasonable and sick as it is, many of the kids who bring weapons to school are those who ARE GETTING PICKED ON.
This is not a case of "suck it up and deal with it". There ARE kids AND adults who are simply just not fighters. NOT EVERYONE can kick someone's ***. Hitting is never okay. We teach domestic violence abuse is wrong among other things, so how is it okay for a kid to get beat on by another kid just because some ignorant people believe fighting among kids is normal or common? I think people who believe in that theory must have been the ones picking on the weaker either when they were kids or now as adults. Now THAT is weak!
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