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Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 11:24 am
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pretty hate machine The sad thing is, most schools have a zero tolerance policy towards bullying. Kids can get help if they feel they are being bullied, just so situations like these don't happen anymore, but unfortunately not a lot of kids use these systems to get help.
Hang on a mo' while I laugh bitterly for about 20 minutes. .. ... .... ..... Okay, I'm good.
I've yet to see a school that actually has a good system for dealing with bullies. For the first half of my 9th grade year, I was tormented constantly by several classmates, from getting the rest of the class to call me a lesbian to trying to knock me down a flight of stairs. I actually went to my school counselor. She talked to said bullies. To no one's surprise, they proceeded to deny the whole thing. GUESS WHO THE COUNSELOR BELIEVED?
So maybe some places take bullying seriously, but I don't see any in my area. (And, yes, I am more then a little sore about the subject).
Also, I have never been so furious at fellow 'followers' of my religion as I have when two 'Christian' groups managed to stop a bill from passing that would actually create consequences for bullying, because it would "advance homosexual agendas", as it included gay/lesbian students under the protected.
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Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 9:03 am
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I feel like laughing too. And cursing quite a bit at the same time.
Zero tolerance policy towards bullying? No. That just doesn't exist anywhere. Its just sweet talk and believe me, more often that offered 'help' turns against the bullied person.
I could tell more than ten life stories that has been told directly to me by a bullied person who did not get help or wasn't even taken seriously when trying to solve problem. In most cases, including my own, attempt to get responsible people to stop or punished by teachers turned to revenge against the bullied one. There is even teachers that rather turn the blind eye than do nothing that might get their hands dirty if bullied student/student's parents is/are someone they don't particularly like.
Yeah, right, kids have skirmish all the time, its normal, don't mind it, they don't really mean it, teasing means that they like you, have you talked to them... Blah blah. I'm even blamed causing my years lasting torment myself. stare
Just a short note, shooter at Kauhajoki wasn't bullied or introvert so I take that conversation has moved to more general level.
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Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 7:23 pm
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Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 8:25 pm
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I believe the problems that all children have can be traced back to their parent/s.
A lot of violent and angry children I knew growing up, (including my brother) was due to lack of interest in their lives from their parents.
If you don't know your very own flesh and blood is thinking about taking a weapon and using it to take a life, then you don't deserve to have that child. Instead of blaming video games, music and movies, blame the ones who are supposed to be looking after them.
I don't have children of my own, but this is a choice right now because I know I'm not selfless enough to have one yet. I'm so sick of people bringing children into this life, then getting tired of them and cast them away or ignore them to the point where the child feels they have no one in the world to trust or to talk to.
It does NOT take a village to raise a child. It takes a strong parent to stand up and tell the child "no." All children look to their elders for comfort and advice, so if those "superiors" aren't taking enough action and resposibility to care what that child is up to, then those parents deserve to reap what they sew. (i.e. disgrace, sadness and loss for what their failure has created.)
But in the end, it is the victims of these creations that really lose out.
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Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 7:06 pm
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Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 8:21 pm
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 5:52 pm
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 6:08 pm
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What people who are bullied are thinking typically reflects how they are being treated at home, school, work, and play.
At the writing center where I work as a tutor, we have been warned to watch for students who seem down, hurried, depressed, or anything aside from confident and somewhat happy. We are told to care for them and explain to them what our college has avalible.
As someone who was bullied up until the day she graduated from high school, I can tell you that it's not fun. There are days when you think of revenge. There are days when you cry and wish no one would bother you. There are times when you want to fight back, and hurt...and times you wish to give up.
I think those who have shot their classmates were the ones who finally gave up, and decided to take people with them, making them be remembered as someone to be feared, not laughed at.
Even with that...-shakes her head- I'm with everyone in not truly knowing what goes through a shooter's mind...for he or she alone knows it.
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Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 3:31 am
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