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Beating the school bullies

http://www.bakersfield.com/...

 

I'm so glad I saw this story in the local section of the newspaper/website. It is ridiculous and completely outrageous what people/kids can get away with. The problem seems to get worse and worse. In this story the bullies video taped the bullying and put it on youtube. I guess "bragging" rights aren't limited to just talking anymore.

 

"She has been pushed and kicked, Nicole said. "Feed me" sticky notes were stuck to her back. Books were knocked out of her hands in the hallway. And she's been called a stream of names, from ugly to cow to slut.

The year of bullying has left her daughter's self-esteem and faith in making friends in tatters, Dowda said."

 

This is a serious issue and I'm very happy to see that schools are taking it seriously.

Don't really have anything to add, I'm just happy to see the article and pass it along.

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posted by drilnliftcrude on Jun 7, 2009 at 12:02 PM

Is there a list anywhere that indexes all colored ribbons and what cause/causes they support?

posted by lanabuford on Jun 7, 2009 at 12:21 PM

school bullies are probably being raised by former school bullies. Bullies are cowards that put in a bluff and if ever called on their bluff back down!

posted by hotandfoggy on Jun 7, 2009 at 01:56 PM

I was bullied in elementary school and it left me angry and embarrased. After reading the article, I felt compelled to tell my mom a bullying incident that I never told her before. Of course, she was upset that I never told her. I knew that she would be mad and complain.

When I played the saxophone in grammar school, I was only one of the two girls with a lot of boys.  When me or the other girl played for the teacher, the boys would say "you suck."  The music teacher must have heard these remarks, but never intervened. In junior high I was in band with a lot of these boys, but it was completely different. I never heard any negative remarks, and one of the boy bullies in elementary school wrote in my yearbook to keep playing the sax and you're great!

posted by sagefever on Jun 7, 2009 at 02:48 PM

Thanks for calling attention to the article. 

Parents~ watch what your offspring are up too. Time to nip errant behavior in the bud is when they are young~ not when your talking to them through bars.

posted by bakommafan on Jun 8, 2009 at 03:28 PM

Bakersfield Brazilian Jiu Jitsu has a wonderful kids program that will teach her to defend herself & more importantly, give her the confidence to walk away knowing that with martial arts training it's never a fair fight.  

posted by siouxcityranch on Jun 8, 2009 at 03:31 PM

bullys are part of growing up. Its actually better to allow the kids to work it out as long as theres no actual blood being spilled.

this isnt the first time nor the last a child will be teased for being over weight..the trick is how they react and if they can conveince others its not a big deal and allowing their shiny personality to prevail..many heavy kids have gone that route and become respected members of that particular social group in their school..

I saw the video on youtbe before they took it down..it actually wasnt anything..just a couple of girls in an outside hallway..one sitting one standing..I couldnt tell what was being said..I thought they were just friends then one girl bumped the other ones foot no harder than you would if you were being playful with another friend..it wasnt like the wasco fights on youtube where they were beatin the snot out of each other..

my opinion it got blown out of porportion..kids are mean always will be..all this did was call attention to the girl and instead of dealing with losing weight and making them all eat their words shes got a even worse rep..this will no doubt follow her all through school now..not something any of us would like to be remembered by our school chums Im sure..

Oh well done deal..shes just gonna have to deal with the outcome now..

posted by sagefever on Jun 8, 2009 at 03:38 PM

Bullies receive no favor when adults ignore their behavior. They need to learn that if you try that in the grown up world~ you learn to love the unemployment line. Best taught when young and re-applied as needed.

 

posted by VirgilAnderson on Jun 8, 2009 at 03:48 PM

 "bullys are part of growing up. Its actually better to allow the kids to work it out as long as theres no actual blood being spilled."

 

I was bullied in  the sixth and just for part of the seveth grade.

I think I came out of it just fine you PRICK ... And What the fudge are Yoou LOOKING AT !!

--virgil

posted by siouxcityranch on Jun 9, 2009 at 12:23 PM

I would say dam near everyone has encountered a bully or two in their life time Virgil..one time i got fed up and dove over a row of desks and broke my nose on ones head..i was so pissed and couldnt see I just grabbed him and kept punching him in the face..slammed him into the chalk board and jumped on his chest..the teachers aide  pulled me off while I was bouncing his head off the floor ..i got kicked out for that and the hell of it was I was keeping the kid from bullying the teacher..he was trying to be cute and was being disrespectful disturbing the class....she was one of my favorite teachers. I simply told him to knock it off and he said make me..

as I got older I confronted one that embarrassed me and challenged me infront of a group of boys during PE class...later that day he was standing infront of a shatter proof window in the 2nd floor boys bathroom in Warren Hall...I punch him so hard his head broke the glass..the internal wires kept his head from going all the way through then I walk out  while he grabbed his nose sniveling " what did ya do that for?"..then i came back 15 minutes later and looked at all the blood and paper towels running out of the sink onto the tiled floor while all the other kids were dancing around pointing at me whispering "he's the one that hit him" No one ever told it was me that thumped him..he had a habit of pushing other kids around too...that was the last time I ever had to deal with a bully at BHS

sometimes you just have to draw a line..enoughs enough..ya know what I mean Virgil

posted by sagefever on Jun 9, 2009 at 12:49 PM

Thank the *goodness* that now we recognize that the bully is the one that needs help~ badly. Allowed to go on their merry path of destruction,they go on to be the very drains on society we all decry.

Bulling harms the one bullied,but establishes negative traits in the bully that todays world simply can not afford to "let go".Later on they buy guns and go off.

What is sad about some situations described here~ is that no young person should feel "in control" of,or responsible for, the adults. That is our job.

 

 

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