I can get onboard with this idea! Bullying is harrassment and if any adult engaged in such behavior they'd soon be having police banging on their doors for domestic disturbance. We need to start holding these kids responsible for the same laws adults are held responsible for. Learning to be a good american starts in childhood. Its hard enough for children to concentrate on school work and making good grades when they are worried about some insolent asshole making fun of them, picking on them and ostracising them. This bullying has got to stop, kids see no way out of their misery except for taking a pistol and blowing their brains all over the place because they are hurting and in misery.

When i was a child my grades suffered all throughout my school years because i was bullied on a daily basis and even i thought about taking one of my grandfathers shotguns and killing the bastards that wouldn't let me have peace. I never did that option because i knew none of those bullies were worth my landing in prison, but some kids don't have the option of being able to freely talk about their feelings because they are constantly on the defensive expecting an attack to come from any direction. We as adults need to derail this train of hate and bigotry and harrassment. Bullying IS a hatecrime and we need to use our power to vote to make this indecent and unacceptable behavior illegal.

whatcha gunna do, lock kids up for bugging someone in the lunch break? I was bullied at school too, alot, it passes, it makes you stronger in the fact that you got past it, that you'll no longer take any business from the next man, and societys answer is put them in a cage like an animal and convince them they are mistaken.

I could go on, but I've said enough. there are of course positive notes to this story, but imho this is another step towards eugenics.

Since teasing and bullying seem to be synonymous now, should we make teasing illegal also?

I am all for a zero tolerance policy on protracted bullying, but who decides what constitutes bullying versus harmless school yard shenanigans (hehehe )?

Originally posted by lonewolf19792000
I can get onboard with this idea! Bullying is harrassment and if any adult engaged in such behavior they'd soon be having police banging on their doors for domestic disturbance. We need to start holding these kids responsible for the same laws adults are held responsible for. Learning to be a good american starts in childhood. Its hard enough for children to concentrate on school work and making good grades when they are worried about some insolent asshole making fun of them, picking on them and ostracising them. This bullying has got to stop, kids see no way out of their misery except for taking a pistol and blowing their brains all over the place because they are hurting and in misery.

When i was a child my grades suffered all throughout my school years because i was bullied on a daily basis and even i thought about taking one of my grandfathers shotguns and killing the bastards that wouldn't let me have peace. I never did that option because i knew none of those bullies were worth my landing in prison, but some kids don't have the option of being able to freely talk about their feelings because they are constantly on the defensive expecting an attack to come from any direction. We as adults need to derail this train of hate and bigotry and harrassment. Bullying IS a hatecrime and we need to use our power to vote to make this indecent and unacceptable behavior illegal.

Bullying is what the U.S. does best.... In fact, this is an attempt at bullying the public, and their offspring.

Despite that idea, be careful, because all this says to me is more invasion of privacy, children being tried as adults for bullying? What constitutes bullying for these people? I got bullied in school, but guess what? I have stolen a few cookies in my day. I have also gotten in trouble at school for STOPPING a bully from #ing with a kid that just wanted to read his book (they were ninth graders, I was a senior in high school, my point being; when I was in ninth grade, I got bullied, then in my senior year I got to be the change that I wanted to see, this was AFTER I had done some bullying of my own. Children learn. Duh).

The issue with this is that it will be used against us. Not for any greater good. Being a dick in the classroom is one thing, being a true bully is another. How many ignorant # ass children do YOU know that complain about everything and everyone, just to see people get in trouble and gain the protection of more authoritative forces? Sounds like uh...

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Haha, just a quick comparison...

But really, getting fun poked at you is normal, it happens to everyone. And guess what, it is VERY OBVIOUS as to what can be classified as a joke, and what can be taken as literal. We don't need the feds trying our children because of a bullying claim.

Seen both sides of this "bullying" coin, can't say much past "hell no you will not discipline my child".

Lady Gaga giving advise? The same "Lady" who has millions of little girl fans and cross dresses is trying to give advise? Eh, okay.

Just what we need, more policing. But lets start at a younger age!
My cousin in 2nd grade told his aunt somebody was picking on him.. so my aunt went and told the teacher... who told the kid to leave him alone...
What happens when he grows to be an adult and people are missing with him? He needs to learn how to stand up for himself, he cannot learn that by telling other people to do it for him.

i just say we got back to the ways that obvi did work...beating there asses....i know someones gonna turn around and say you will not discipline my child...why the hell not do you not see how children act these days..look at your parents and their parents...they didnt act like this they never EVER told their parents to f off in the middle of public while throwing a tantrum cuz their parents would grab them and beat there butts right on the spot then do it again when they got home for embarrassing them...guess what kid learned not to f with them again huh...

if i ever have a kid you damn right he ever gets the idea to lip off to me or his/her mother i will beat his @$$ and make him think twice about what his gonna say...

now im not saying beat your kid for everything but you do not ever disrespect your parents.....damn i miss the old days....i sure got the butt whoopen in my time i could only imagen how bad it woulda been 20years earlier...haha

also on a side note i was bullied in school the last incident i had a kid tried to trip me in class i turned around and said loud enough for the class to hear you try that again and ill put your face through the desk got it...needless to say the teacher and principle told him to take this as a serious warning and to leave me alone...and so he did....

Originally posted by ReadyPower
Lady Gaga giving advise? The same "Lady" who has millions of little girl fans and cross dresses is trying to give advise? Eh, okay.

Just what we need, more policing. But lets start at a younger age!
My cousin in 2nd grade told his aunt somebody was picking on him.. so my aunt went and told the teacher... who told the kid to leave him alone...
What happens when he grows to be an adult and people are missing with him? He needs to learn how to stand up for himself, he cannot learn that by telling other people to do it for him.

Under normal circumstances i would agree, but in the type of society we live in now using brute force and violence solves nothing, it makes it worse. I never would have bullied any kids when i was a child, my dad would have stomped a mudhole in my ass and i knew he would. In fact, when i was in the 8th grade i had a bully that liked to walk up beside me and jerk my hand outwards so my books and folders would go flying across the floor so he could laugh at me in the hallway. Well, after the 3rd or 4th time he did this and after the 3rd or 4th time i asked him to stop he did it again which resulted in a knockdown dragout fight in the hallway where we damaged alot of lockers as well as eachother. He was bigger than i was and after that day he actually wanted to be my friend, but it took me kicking his ass to make it happen.

However, in this society you just can't do that anymore. There should have been a powerful lesson learned in america when the Columbine Shooting happened.

i'd just like to say please don't take my post personally, im grateful that you bought this information to light aswell as anyone else, so I starred and flaged the thread and OP, don't let this thread die without proper feedback, things like this are important, everyone should have their say.

Originally posted by whatsinaname
whatcha gunna do, lock kids up for bugging someone in the lunch break? I was bullied at school too, alot, it passes, it makes you stronger in the fact that you got past it, that you'll no longer take any business from the next man, and societys answer is put them in a cage like an animal and convince them they are mistaken

Agreed, bullying only makes you stronger.

Originally posted by Nosred

Originally posted by whatsinaname
whatcha gunna do, lock kids up for bugging someone in the lunch break? I was bullied at school too, alot, it passes, it makes you stronger in the fact that you got past it, that you'll no longer take any business from the next man, and societys answer is put them in a cage like an animal and convince them they are mistaken

Agreed, bullying only makes you stronger.

no it does not..if that was the case all this bullying would people take their lives if it made them stronger...what about the ones that finally snap and go shoot up a school did it make them stronger...no your logic is wrong sure this is how "YOU" a single person turned out does not mean that this is how the others will....

just because something worked one way for you doesnt mean it will work the same for another.

Originally posted by Calex1987
no it does not..if that was the case all this bullying would people take their lives if it made them stronger...what about the ones that finally snap and go shoot up a school did it make them stronger...no your logic is wrong sure this is how "YOU" a single person turned out does not mean that this is how the others will....

Without bullying there would be a hell of a lot more socially awkward and un-hygienic people afraid to stand up for themselves in the world.

Remember the smelly kid in school who never washed his hair and had no friends? That's your kid without bullying.

just because something worked one way for you doesnt mean it will work the same for another.

/implying I was bullied

Originally posted by Nosred

Originally posted by Calex1987
no it does not..if that was the case all this bullying would people take their lives if it made them stronger...what about the ones that finally snap and go shoot up a school did it make them stronger...no your logic is wrong sure this is how "YOU" a single person turned out does not mean that this is how the others will....

Without bullying there would be a hell of a lot more socially awkward and un-hygienic people afraid to stand up for themselves in the world.

Remember the smelly kid in school who never washed his hair and had no friends? That's your kid without bullying.

just because something worked one way for you doesnt mean it will work the same for another.

/implying I was bullied

edit on 27-9-2011 by Nosred because: (no reason given)

so your implying because this person is un-hygienic that bullying is the answer? how about the child having parents who give a crap and teach him this stuff rather then you going around shoving him into lockers calling him names and embarrassing him infront of everyone because you think its funny. there are other productive ways to get a point across bullying is not one of them.