Good for both of them!
I hope all the attention makes the school actually deal with this situation.

Funny how all this talk about bullies, in schools and all the stars jumping on board and the like, it is still going on. Every day.

I have neve let a bully "bully" me, I will fight back evvery time, they usually learn that I'm not the one very quickly. When they don't I teach them the old fashioned way, I find a good old fashioned ass whoopin to do wanders for ones priorities.

good for this kid, there should be more like him, then there wouldn't be any bullies. They always pick on the weak, not those that will fight back to protect themselves.

Why hasn't the father sued the school yet? I mean they obviously allowed this bully to do this for years and did nothing.

I may be wrong here, but isn't emotional trauma the same as financial or physical damage in the courts?

Allowing this to occur for years has obviously emotionally repressed the poor child, until the breaking point, and now that he fights back he is the bad guy? What the fuhell is wrong with these people?

I am glad I haven't had to deal with this issue yet with my children. The day I do, you guys will see me in the news, I will not take this kind of treatment of my children, the school already knows they don't wanna deal with me very often, I have been a thorn in the side of every single person necessry at their school teachers principles, bus drivers, administrators etc... every time there has been a problem.

It is easy, just demand a satisfactory resolution, not a year from the time of the incident, not in 3 months, NOW! Everytime they try to railroad you, move up the ladder, and chew a higher placed ass, all the way to the superintendent if necessary.

They really hate it when you make them give you their bosses phone number, then stand in their office and call him, chew his ass, and hand them the phone so he can chew theirs. I kinda have a reputation already for this kind of thing. They don't even attempt to hassel me any more, they take my objections seriously, and any "misunderstandings" get handled pretty quickly, and to my satisfaction.

I am a fairly fair minded sort most of the time, so it isn't like I make a stink about every little thing, but some issues are just beyond my letting them go. The teacher that told my kids that they don't have to listen to their parents, the bus driver that threatenned to kick my kids off the bus for not waiting outside in the 7 dgree winter for the bus, the time a teacher took my childs cell phone out of his back pack and refused to return it until the end of the year( it was powered down, and for his use in calling us when his after school activities were over, totally within the rules of the school), or the teacher that told my kids we were bad parents and shouldn't be allowed to have kids because I was in the military, and served "meat" in our families meals.

The point is, many people will do as they want, not as they are suppossed to unless you force the issue. I have no problems forcing the issue, I don't mind being an asshole if it is necessary. it more times than not, gets results, as rolling over and taking it simply reinforces their negative behavior.

I've always thought that the policy was dumb...I was bullied when i was in high school and I was always told to ignore them and they will go away. That is total bull, they just kept on doing it. So i finally got the nerve to tell a teacher which just makes it worse because of society bad mouthing "narcs" so they just had another thing to harass me about. And the teachers and principal did mostly nothing until my mom told them that if they kept doing nothing she would go to the cops (I was not a fan of this idea, but I was getting tired of it). One of the main reasons that i didn't stand up to the bullies is because of the policy that both students would get suspended. And at my school they mostly told you that people who get suspended have a hard time getting into college because they are looked at as bad kids.

The problem is that when i walked away, a lot of the time they would follow and continue.

Public Schools are a zoo. Props to the father for standing up for his son, whats more entertaining though is the religious argument going on in the comments section in the article link, facebook warriors as I call them.

Originally posted by chiefsmom

Funny how all this talk about bullies, in schools and all the stars jumping on board and the like, it is still going on. Every day.

Depends on the school.

My granddaughter's middle school has ZERO tolerance - - and I mean ZERO.

You fight - - you get disciplined. Doesn't matter who started it or why.

Even verbal fights are brought into the principles office for discussion. You have to talk it out. Usually at this age its over nothing.

She jumped in to defend a gay boy who was being harassed. She did not fight - - just got right up in their face and dared them to do something. They were reported to the principle by other kids who witnessed it.

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Walking home from school - - well that's a different story.

I was bullied when I was a kid. I was a pacifist. Family of mostly women. They always talked all the peaceful warrior crap.

It wasn't until I was slightly mentally unstable because of it, and started fighting back that I got a hold over the situation. I gained in a year all the self esteem I had dragged through the mud. I regained confidence in myself, and went on to never let that sort of thing happen to me or anyone around me.

Most people don't know what it is like to be bullied. They give all this advice, but it never helps,, it usually gets your nose broken, or your pride destroyed.

I went through almost 7 years of this throughout most of grade school. I got all the advice anyone would give.

It wasn't until I had enough and something inside me broke, that I was able to stop it, BY FIGHTING. I then remained tempered by all my years of cruelty and abuse on my end, but strong and defiant because of it. I never lost sight of how it really feels, so I never did it to anyone.

In a way I have to thank them, all those A holes. They made me indestructible for the most part, and showed me the true power of my tempered rage.

This subject really gets to me. I hear my daughter come home talking about a name she was called, and I want to go kick the kids fathers ass....LOL..I don't of course, but it really sits in my core. I am the under dogs champion for it.

You have to fight back. You can't just take it. I was lucky, had I failed when I lashed out and went completely berserk and ape....I would have gone into a dark place.

I remember the first fight I fought back. The kid just kicked my ass, and I was watching my blood on the ground and my tears falling, and I just got up and told him to meet me there tomorrow same time. He did, and I F-ed him up. The kids made fun of me all day that day. It wasn't until they saw me fight him that most left me alone and some even became my friends.

I then picked a fight with another kid who was absent that day, and came to start with me in usual fashion. I asked him to wait for me after his basket ball game. I went there, F-ed him up, and looked him deep in the eyes and told him to never bother me again...in not so polite words. He was scared of me.

I felt like a GOD! That night I walked home under the constellation of Orion and claimed a star in honor of my victory. I had been nervous before while walking up to the school, and prayed to him for a "good hunt"....It was one of the most important nights of my life. He was so clear and dominating in the sky. Very appropriate I think.

I used violence to end violence. All the other crap only made my blood and tears flow.

STAND UP FOR YOUR SELVES AND DEFEND ALL THAT YOU ARE! You are worth it.

HOLD IT DOWN!

When I was a kid I was very small. I was skinny, awkward and shy. I was picked on all the time because I was seen as an easy target. I always walked away until I could not get away, then I fought back. I almost never won a fight because the bullies were bigger and usually more of them but I never had to fight the same guy more than once. Even when I lost, I made it as costly as possible for the other kid. Eventually, they left me alone. Now I'm six foot tall and weigh about 275 and I scare the crap out of some of my old schoolmates.

I still go out of my way to confront anyone I see who plays the role of a bully.

Kudos to this kid for standing up for himself.