rant..moan..school..bullying.

moomoomama27

Sambucus_Nigra wrote: »

Is that it? Genius.

No need to me smart You asked a questioned, I answered it, with an example! Of course I am only drawing on my own experiences, and the knowledge of the schools anti bullying policy.

Hopefully If it is a good school, then most will try and nip it in the bud as quickly as possible, especially as we are talking primary/junior school age. I do believe it's all about approach and communciation, and working in a school I know bullying is taken very seriously. I think there are normally at least 2/3 channels to go through within a school with re: to bullying, and I would be surprised, and saddened if you came against a brick wall with them all.

Of course bullying in senior school is a whole other kettle of fish.

moomoomama27

FATBALLZ wrote: »

Some history lessons are in order. (and I don't mean the kids).

Let me clarify violence in school.

Lotus-eater

fedupnow wrote: »

Does it never occur to you she may get hurt?

What happens, when as a teenager with a reputation for being a fighter, she gets beaten up by two or three others and nobody sees her as a victim but somebody who has been a 'fighter' since she was a nipper?

Unless you've been bullied for years, then I suggest you give it a rest.

fedupnow

Sambucus_Nigra wrote: »

Is that it? Genius.

But you think thumping somebody IS genius, right?

I believe the reason there is such a high rate of bullying and the teachers are losing the battle, is that too many parents have this attitude that violence will sort it.

If the parents teach the kids to fight but complain when theirs get's hit ... what are they supposed to do? It's okay for one kid to hit but not the other? Who decides? Where's the line? All these kids are somebody's little darling.

moomoomama27

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Unless you've been bullied for years, then I suggest you give it a rest.

Maybe they have? I was. I was badly bullied in high school, it lasted for over a year. I didn't ever resort to violence. They got bored, they moved onto someone else.

Lotus-eater

moomoomama27 wrote: »

Maybe they have? I was. I was badly bullied in high school, it lasted for over a year. I didn't ever resort to violence. They got bored, they moved onto someone else.

Lucky you, mine didn't.

fedupnow

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Unless you've been bullied for years, then I suggest you give it a rest.

eh?

Why?

Lotus-eater

fedupnow wrote: »

eh?

Why?

Because you don't know what the !!!! you are on about.

moomoomama27

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Lucky you, mine didn't.

Do you think violence would have solved it? What's to say violence wouldn't have made the situation escalate.

I just feel it's very shaky ground to teach a child to deal with anything through voilence. Especially as a first course of action.

fedupnow

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Because you don't know what the !!!! you are on about.

Yes I do.

I do hope your method works for your kid - truly. But I want no kid getting bullied and teaching our own to fight meaner and punch harder is not the way.