Comments on: Fight brews over school bullies

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:39:25 +0000

Any idiot who is bullying is probably the biggest coward. This person needs to display physical strength because internally he is a quivering fool and feels unsure of himself inside. So really it is sort of humiliating for the bully because he’s letting everyone know that he has to compensate somehow for the little “pe–s” between his legs. If he were a true confident guy, he wouldn’t need to prove anything at all.

By: NR

NR — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:16:52 +0000

I am a mother of 4 and have experience the bullying first hand with my young child. It seems that no matter how much you talk to the administrators of the school very little is being done. The problem seems to go away for a few weeks but the issue always resurface.
I am in the process of opening a non-profit private school for parent who cannot afford to send their children to private schools. The name of the school will be called Redirection.

I have had enough of the children that are looked upon as different because their not as rough as others. Children are in school to learn not to be harassed.

By: jim d

jim d — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:33:37 +0000

Spank him send him home and sue the parents?

By: Reality

Reality — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:36:29 +0000

jim d – Please do not put words in my mouth. What you wrote is not what I said at all.

If an 8 year old does shoot someone, then yes, that 8 year old needs desperate help. However, the parents are also to blame. In these types of cases currently, everyone only has sympathy for the 8 year old shooter (usually). My point is that it IS the parents responsibility to raise, manage, teach, control, whatever, their own child and they obviously failed which resulted in someone’s death – isn’t that sort of the legal definition of manslaughter? —to be indirectly responsible for someone’s death?

So then, jim d, you tell me… if an 8 year old does kill someone. What do YOU think should happen?

By: Sarah H

Sarah H — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:12:27 +0000

I see that my comment is gone. Was it to truthful? Is the new blogging system still a piece of stuff?

By: School system did all it could

School system did all it could — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 04:49:16 +0000

It appears the school system has done all it could. Hired counselors, adopted programs, invoke fancy slogans, every thing but the ONE thing that could stamp it out. Swift, sure and compelling consequences.

If a parent complains repeatedly and no action is taken against the offenders, the system has blood on its hands.

I hope that, for the sake of those in the future, EVERY legal remedy is explored because it seems the ONLY way the school system will respond is to be forced to PAY and PAY and PAY until it becomes SO painful, MORE painful to not address it than to, as should have been done in the first place, address it with the appropriate consequences.

By: MC

MC — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:05:20 +0000

My problem is at my childs school some of the teachers are bullies. What is a parent suppose to do about that? This is an elementary school with no more than 600 kids!! It’s awful what children have to deal with these days.

By: Those bullying programs

Those bullying programs — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:22:29 +0000

Of course schools do everything in their power to stop bullying. They hire counselors, they develop programs, they adpot slogans, they do it all. Everything except the ONE THING that will stop it: enforce consequences. When schools develop the BACKBONE to enforce REAL and MEANINGFUL consequences, bullying and all OTHER misbehavior goes down.

If fact you can’t point to a SINGLE school system in this country that has made REAL, MEANINGFUL, and most of all CONSISTENT consequences the focal point of their policy that hasn’t had discipline improve.

Now of course the sample of school systems that have done this is exceedingly small and you certainly aren’t going to find one named DEKALB!

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:02:26 +0000

The bottom line is this – between the hours of 7:30am and 3:30pm, school administrators and teachers are responsible for maintaining a safe environment that is conducive to the learning process. Failure by the school personnel to enforce proper standards of conduct by the student population undermines this structure and before long, the troublemakers are running the show.

Apparently, we crossed that line many years ago.

Once again, the real losers are the good parents of the good students who are forced to fend for themselves in the cesspool of public education dispair.

By: ScienceTeacher671

ScienceTeacher671 — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:57:53 +0000

Just noting that there are private schools that cover up bad behavior – and allow “bad” students – either to protect their reputations or because they don’t want to lose the tuition.