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reply posted on 4-12-2003 @ 03:39 PM by Machine
Good job taking your son out of the government school nightmare. I mentioned this on another thread but I’ll hit it again for you. As a former law enforcement officer I have watched as our public schools have chosen to adopt a zero tolerance policy to violence. On the surface this sounds wonderful but the mechanics of it leave much to be desired. The school doesn’t make any attempt to investigate the fight in an effort to determine who the primary aggressor is. Instead, they simply treat both the victim and the bully in the same fashion, both are disciplined!

I had a case in the city of La Quinta, California where the local high school called the Sheriff’s Department in to arrest two students for fighting. I arrived and investigated the matter fully to include interviews with all witnesses and suspects involved. Upon completion I determined that one student was clearly and without question the primary aggressor and that the other student was only trying to defend himself from the bully. I arrested the bully and let the other boy go with a congratulations for defending himself.

In this case the teacher and principle were angry with me for not arresting both of the students. I explained to them that their silly zero tolerance against fighting rules did not apply to the law and that my investigation clearly showed that the kid I arrested was the attacker. They claimed I was setting a bad example for the other students. I told them both in front of several students that it was the school’s poor policies that were setting the bad example and left it at that.

Know this right off, if your kid tries to keep another kid from kicking his face inside out while on or near school property he will receive the same treatment as the bully! Is this insane, of course it is but leave it to the silly liberals to come up with such a fine policy.


Machine


reply posted on 15-12-2003 @ 05:16 PM by MrJingles

I'm a sophomore in high school and I agree that the educational system is retarded, my school is full of idiot teachers and staff. But you have to put up with it. And in my opinion, homeschooling your kid is not the way to go. All the homeschooled kids I've met were always kind of odd. Get your kid in the weight room and teach him/her to stand up for themselves, if they stay at home all day, they wont learn lifes lessons and wont have the fun of high school. They need to face up to the challenge and take life on unless you want your kids to be a bunch of pansies. I agree with protecting your kids, but dont be over protective, they'll thank you later when they're old enough to realise.


I couldn't agree with you more. Alot of you have made good observations. But taking your kid out of school and homeschooling them is among the worst. If you left your kid in for a little while longer the "bullies" would have found someone else to make fun of or actually made friends with them. Thats just the way it works.

Calling the schools and asking them to do something, of course they won't help. What can they do? Not much more than tell the "bullies" to stop it. In which case your son will get beat more for having his dad call the school.

I think you should give public school another try, only this time, don't interfere, and get your kid to take some karate lessons. The teachers wont stop someone defending themselves from bullies unless it becomes a full blown fight. There are other ways besides fighting to fight back.
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