Bullying
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Re: Bullying
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I feel like their was a little bullying when I was in high school but nothing like that. I also feel like most if the time it was started because someone was being a jerk to begin with and then everyone was was against them. I am a fourth grade teacher now and my husband teaches middle school. Most of the bullying we see isn't bullying at all. It's just a kid who isn't getting there way pitching a fit to mommy. Real serious bullying is fairly rare but does still happen. I'm sure it carries from school to school also.KAV wrote:Maybe I'm crazy or just naive, but I don't remember there being that much bullying in my school. I know this is a huge topic in schools now, but I graduated with about 700 people, less than 10 years ago. I remember there being the "popular kids, the band geeks, the nerds," etc but no one went out of there way to make fun of someone. There never would have been a dumping beer episode at my school or cruel nicknames that follow you through the years like "mellow yellow." People just hung out with their own friends and left everyone else alone. We even has a school ambassador program so new kids would have someone to eat with at lunch until they made friends of there own.
Did anyone else really have this much bullying and issues at there high school?
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Now when kids walk up and hit him...for no reason, because they know he's not a fighter...he has started to fight them back. He's protecting himself since he was savagely beat the last time. Now we find out, IF a student protects himself, EVEN if he did not START or PASSED the first lick, he still gets suspended for PARTICIPATING. I mean, really? WTF? They want him to allow these bullies to beat on him, to not protect himself, in order to not get suspended.
What is a parent to do?
Confused as $ell
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I have also experienced bullying, as I was bullied in preschool. Many people (such as my parents) don't believe me, but I was constantly picked on by one of my classmates and it felt awful. I would fake sick everyday in order to stay home, but my parents made me go. Even when I told my teacher about the bullying, she did absolutely nothing about it.
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-- 25 Apr 2016, 06:06 --
Skoraeus wrote:I have tons of experience in this. I don't know if this count as bullying, but I have been taunted and teased at my Freshmen and Sophomore year. It sucks, really. Is kinda bad as well, the thoughts and negative thinking I had in fear of going school on a daily basis. Learning turns out to be a horror, a nightmare. But things started to get way better when I'm in my Junior year. I made many friends, few of whom are still close friends, even now. No longer the scrawny kid I used to be in the first two year of high school. Had a growth spurt or such, made me more 'intimidating'. I can't enjoyably say that high school was my best memory. First two years was an absolute nightmare, but the last two years turns out to be the most exciting aspects of my life. I still badly missed high school. Hanged out regularly with friends at all during the beginning of Junior year. Irony isn't it? Turns out I was quite well known and respected throughout the last two years, a friendly person which everybody instantly took a liking to. A complete contrast from the sadist I used to be. But anyway, bullying sucks. I would go out of my way just to help others in need, and I do hope each individual here would help the bullied ones as well. Make the society a better place to live in.
It is our responsibility to get involved and make a difference.
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Now I work in a high school. Bullying hasn't changed. the reason why are still the same. its just that the bullying has gotten much louder, and due to the internet (where everything is relevant, permanent and easily accessible) has become much more harmful to ones reputation and (God forbid) their quality of life. I hear rumors of people unable to get jobs because of a raunchy picture they post on their facebook feeds
-- 27 Apr 2016, 10:34 --
I think bullying was more subtle back when I was in high school. No one fully understood at that time how talking about another person could be so damaging, but when you are a teenager you do that. not because you genuinely feel evil thoughts towards another person, but because you have this genuine need to want to "fit in", as a result it turns into this horrible pyramid of who is the best.
Now I work in a high school. Bullying hasn't changed. the reason why are still the same. its just that the bullying has gotten much louder, and due to the internet (where everything is relevant, permanent and easily accessible) has become much more harmful to ones reputation and (God forbid) their quality of life. I hear rumors of people unable to get jobs because of a raunchy picture they post on their facebook feeds
-- 27 Apr 2016, 10:38 --
I have your same worries mama! although my son is only 18 months olds, I work at the schools and see what these kids have to face on the daily. its a harsh school work and the rules are not adapting as fast as they should.Terrylynsmith wrote:I didn't have to deal with bullying in my day too much, but my son is catching it! There a group of kids at his school that is taking turns fighting him because he refused to fight them back in the beginning. Although they were getting suspended, my son still faced issues of being called a b#tch, chicken, the weakest link...ect, because he never fault back.
Now when kids walk up and hit him...for no reason, because they know he's not a fighter...he has started to fight them back. He's protecting himself since he was savagely beat the last time. Now we find out, IF a student protects himself, EVEN if he did not START or PASSED the first lick, he still gets suspended for PARTICIPATING. I mean, really? WTF? They want him to allow these bullies to beat on him, to not protect himself, in order to not get suspended.
What is a parent to do?
Confused as $ell
Also, respect to your son for being man enough to rise about the foolishness for as long as he did. it is a sad truth that any child, even if they are defending themselves, are subject to punishment for fighting
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