The Bullying Issue

[SmootsDaddy89]

i had horribly bad acne along with braces .

lmao

[mav1234]

what's retarded is that my niece is on facebook... she's 13... and her ex boyfriend's mother harasses her and tells her to grow up all the time... the crazy part is that she and her ex boyfriend are friends and though they don't spend much time around each other they have no problem at all, yet this woman constantly harasses her and poo.

[pstall]

as a dad you have to have multiple radars. the one for boys liking my girls is already up and running.

but the one for jack ass parents has been on since the first day my oldest went to school. You can tell which parents are Rex Ryan wannabes. So those are the ones I befriend early and get into their head and do Jedi stuff waaay in advance of their kids flipping on mine.

I dealt with bullys from 1st till I graduated. At some point in time I had face each one. Got my butt kicked many times and I won a few as well.

Because there is so much entitlement mindsets going on and everybody gets a trophy and things are PC that that causes MORE angst and pent up rage. Nobody can say whats on their mind and at some point explode.

Notice the correlation between LESS physical education and MORE bullying? More obesity?

We would gang up on known bullies in P.E. and they wouldn't know it. A few of those red kick ball to ones head will make them rethink some things.

We are such a pansy, impatient, lack of character and soul society now we are reaping what we sow.

[mav1234]

I'm not sold that there is causation behind that correlation (if one exists) between less physical education and more bullying, because I think a large part of the bullying thing is that kids can now enter the home via the internet, texting, etc to bully, and awareness has also increased.

I know that when I was growing upl, many of my friends were told by their parents just to "put up with it" when they were growing up. But when school ended, or at least the bus ride ended, there was no more bullying.

Now a days, that's just not true at all... it continues even at home...

[pstall]

if more kids are involved in PE, there is a better chance some anger issues, lack of social skills and understanding boundries are more constructively handled. not to mention team work and positive peer pressure.

its not the cure all, but there is a connection.

[mav1234]

I didn't know school these days didn't have PE, but my experience was never that PE was an overwhelmingly positive place... kinda the opposite at times really

[PanthaSan]

LOL ...if you google "jase's vagina" this pops up...I told you it was big

I'd hit it......plus I hear there are blu rays located inside. :D

About bullies, yes, sadly they are a fact of life. I have always taught my kids to stand up to them first time and pop 'em in the nose. Most kids don't wanna fight after that and if I get a call, from the teacher, I act all pissed so they think things were being dealt with.

Bullies come from parents who don't have a handle on their kids or are just as screwed up.

I was an anti-bully and felt it was my job to defend the girls and the weak. Not to say I didn't get my ass breat now and then but I learned to fight and most times it just took me showing up to the picking on and saying "cut it the fug out."

I have always taught my sons to be the same way, explaining that it will pay off later in life.

My #2 son was always small and had been fighting even before he went to school. When he got a bit of some size, he was leaning toward that bully phase as a sort of payback. I nipped that in the bud by explaining to him that he was no better than the A-holes that he had been fighting against. he saw the light and is ok, for now.

[frash.exe]

Teaching kids that violence doesn't solve anything is part of the problem.

I was bullied mercilessly by some of the kids in my neighborhood. Lasted for years. Right up until I went home crying one day and my old man got fed up with it. Told me if I wasn't going to stand up for myself he wasn't either. Told me to pick the biggest one, break his nose, and take the ensuing ass whooping like a man and it would stop.

Three days later I picked the second biggest on (I was scared but not stupid) and broke his nose with a history book in the lunch room. Took the 3 day suspension and never again had to take an ass whooping at school or in the neighborhood.

Violence stopped it when nothing else would. Sometimes you just gotta speak the bully's language.

lol cool story bro

[lightsout]

I didn't know school these days didn't have PE, but my experience was never that PE was an overwhelmingly positive place... kinda the opposite at times really

There are many schools that have taken out PE in favor of arts. In other schools, it is the opposite.

PE can be positive IF the teacher makes it that. If the teacher lets the kids pick teams, then yeah, you're going to end up with a bunch of the cool, athletic kids on one team against the outcasts. You gotta force these kids into groups and have them get to actually know each other if you want it to be a place where everybody gets along. Same with any classroom, really. Don't let cliques be around each other as much. Break those up, force the "cool" kids to interact with the "outcasts" and bullying decreases. Especially if you do activities where the students depend on one another. This is why PE is a prime setting to accomplish this.

That's part of my teaching philosophy. I'm a PE major. :D

[Dpantherman]

Don't forget!! every one gets a trophy and there's no keeping score either..so that everyone is a winner....

that is bullsh*t btw, imo

They started that poo when I was in the 7th grade. I bowled in a league, and they NEVER gave those out until about then. When I saw my scores and found out that I hadn't won, and I got a trophy anyway, I asked what is was for. They said 'participation' that was the last year I bowled in a league.

I was so pissed at that thing, its behind the rest of my trophies where it can't be seen.

[boo7382]

My pops always told me don't hit them unless they hit you first. Then you go at it.

[CarolinaNCSU]

Don't know if this is posted yet as the thread kinda got derailed it seems, but anyway, it seems the kid was lying and made the video as a joke or something. I don't know how to embed videos, but I'll throw the link in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt5gvl5s2q4&feature=player_embedded

[CarolinaNCSU]

Now it seems he does in fact, deserve an ass beating.

[Mrs Pantherfan]

If it is fake..he should get an oscar for all those fake tears he produced