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I really hate the blaming of the schools here. THey can't possibly stop every kind of bullying, its impossible.
The fact of the matter it happen around teachers at school during school hrs walking home from school. and the mother ask them to do something more than once. yes it is the school fault. and if you listen to gus last night on anderson cooper... oh god he lying through his teeth. The school fail to protect her safety it is there responsibility to keep a child/teen safe
Our society seems to take this attitude that bullying is a part of growing up and kids are just being kids, but the fact of the matter is we send our kids to school and subject them to various threats day in and day out that we would never tolerate at our work place. . .....
Part of the problem with public education is that very few school districts have the balls to appropriately deal with problem students. They operate under this idea that they keep having to attempt to educate these children regardless of the fact that they fuck up the learning environment for everyone else just by being there. ......
You might have been correct..."B.C." ....Before Columbine. But All Public Schools now have anti-bullying programs that are taken very seriously (there are, of course, varying degrees of "very serious").
Witness the opposition's reference to "zero tolerance policy" for bullying:
I think part of the problem is the zero tolerance policy that treats those who defend themselves on an equal or lesser par as the bullying, often subtle or hidden. Both get suspended. Any time my daughter or son (rarely, but it happened) was suspended for defending themselves, I let the school know that while I understand the whole zero tolerance thing, and that while I would not protest the one or two days off, they would not be punished while they were home.
The "zero tolerance policy" isn't the problem.
The main problem is kids: They are incredibly cruel to each other. Go into even the best behaved school, and you'll find bullying (females are much more subtle). Its inherent in the species.
Public Schools teach ALL kids. Eventually they can be expelled, but only AFTER the fact.
Parents, however, are supposed to teach compassion. This is done through modelling compassion. I leave it up to you, gentle reader, to ask yourself how you did this TODAY?
Its not just public school its all and its not just parents and all adults.