2011-03-16, 11:34 AM
Well, I have to reply to this one because one of my co-workers showed me this video 2 days ago. I say kudos to the big kid for not tolerating it. I guarantee that little punk will think twice before ever attempting that again.
Sarah, I adore you but have to disagree with you here. In my personal experiences with myself and with my daughter, officials do NOTHING to stop bullying. I honestly thought things would've changed drastically for my own children as opposed to 25+ years ago, but they haven't.
It took me taking out a boy a year older than me, a foot taller than me, and 50 lbs heavier than me to stop what was happening to me. After months of daily abuse and no action being taken, I took matters into my own hands to finally put an end to it for good.
My daughter.......I'm SO proud of her. She's VERY outspoken and will defend herself, and others who are unable to if she feels something is wrong. After going to the dean's office one Friday morning with my daughter and my neighbor's daughter, INFORMING them of a situation, problems arose less than 30 minutes after me leaving the school. The girls did as they were instructed to do, by me, and went straight back to the dean's office and phoned me. I go to my neighbor and we decide to pick the girls up and hopefully let things blow over for the weekend. I call and say we are coming to get them. Then the idiot decides to send my daughter back to class. We get to the school and they tell me my daughter is in a room so I go in and open the door. (they don't say ONE word to me before hand) I walk in and my daughter is crying and has scratches all over her face. I'm like, wtp happened? Two girls jumped her in the middle of class. The teacher did NOTHING to prevent or stop this. Thankfully, my daughter ended up getting the better of both girls during the fight. My daughter was suspended, given a court citation, had to go to mediation, etc. I pretty much 'high-fived' her right in front of the dean because he was already forewarned of the situation by ME, not 2 hours prior to the incident.
Guess what? Not a problem with any of these kids since. They WILL think twice before doing it again.
ETA: By the way, both of those girls were MUCH smaller than my daughter but because they run with such a large group of other kids, they thought attacking in multiples would work. Not so much lol.
Sarah, I adore you but have to disagree with you here. In my personal experiences with myself and with my daughter, officials do NOTHING to stop bullying. I honestly thought things would've changed drastically for my own children as opposed to 25+ years ago, but they haven't.
It took me taking out a boy a year older than me, a foot taller than me, and 50 lbs heavier than me to stop what was happening to me. After months of daily abuse and no action being taken, I took matters into my own hands to finally put an end to it for good.
My daughter.......I'm SO proud of her. She's VERY outspoken and will defend herself, and others who are unable to if she feels something is wrong. After going to the dean's office one Friday morning with my daughter and my neighbor's daughter, INFORMING them of a situation, problems arose less than 30 minutes after me leaving the school. The girls did as they were instructed to do, by me, and went straight back to the dean's office and phoned me. I go to my neighbor and we decide to pick the girls up and hopefully let things blow over for the weekend. I call and say we are coming to get them. Then the idiot decides to send my daughter back to class. We get to the school and they tell me my daughter is in a room so I go in and open the door. (they don't say ONE word to me before hand) I walk in and my daughter is crying and has scratches all over her face. I'm like, wtp happened? Two girls jumped her in the middle of class. The teacher did NOTHING to prevent or stop this. Thankfully, my daughter ended up getting the better of both girls during the fight. My daughter was suspended, given a court citation, had to go to mediation, etc. I pretty much 'high-fived' her right in front of the dean because he was already forewarned of the situation by ME, not 2 hours prior to the incident.
Guess what? Not a problem with any of these kids since. They WILL think twice before doing it again.
ETA: By the way, both of those girls were MUCH smaller than my daughter but because they run with such a large group of other kids, they thought attacking in multiples would work. Not so much lol.