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Thanks Mike S … problem where I grew up was the Superintendent of the School District would suspend or expel the “nice” student who finally found the courage to fight back, saying they had a “zero tolerance policy for violence.” (Even though nice kid and parents might have reported the bullying up the chain like the rules said to, and go…
Thanks Mike S … problem where I grew up was the Superintendent of the School District would suspend or expel the “nice” student who finally found the courage to fight back, saying they had a “zero tolerance policy for violence.” (Even though nice kid and parents might have reported the bullying up the chain like the rules said to, and gotten nowhere and nothing except a more vicious beating or taunting from the bully.).
Using your analogy, where would that leave a nice kid tactically? Can’t change the world from jail, can you? Did hunger-striking suffragettes or Bobby Sands make differences? Or was it the behind-the scenes pressure? I wouldn’t know, really, but am not inclined to miss a meal and weaken myself while a guest of the state, being of hearty peasant stock.
Yes, being expelled was part of the equation where I went to school as well. So, during my two weeks off from school, I learned to use the arc welder in my barn.
It was nice and peaceful in the barn, and, my welding got better and better.
Then, I went back to school. The bully never came back to school. I don't know what happened to him. I still don't care.
That sounds like you were suspended, then, not expelled. Also sounds like the school was a better place for you after the bully disappeared, but somewhere, someone had to care for that underage child and tend to his injuries (I’d guess his mom). Now, you could maybe say that she deserved it, raising a bully, but it’s not always the mother’s fault when a kid is a dick, pace Sigmund Freud.
Correct.
Perhaps, my older self would do something different Laura.
I don't know.
Yes, hindsight is interesting sometimes, but indulging in too much woulda/coulda/shoulda these days is fiddling while Rome burns, no?
When I worked at junior high, the administration was not part of the bullying brigade.
Most of what I write for this community comes ASTERISK-PRESENT-COMPANY-EXCEPTED since we are obviously strongly like-minded fans of Professor HCR’s work.
However, there seems to be a lot of glass-jawed pushback every time I make a comment about an experience that was based on personal reality. I’m thrilled for you and your lucky junior high kids that the bullying brigade did not include an administration filled with stupid, thuggish, dim-witted rural bigots. I’d speculate that might have to do with annual income average in the school’s zip code. However, now that we have all read that “not all men” or “not all schools” could we maybe accept that it’s luck and/or privilege to be a nice kid somewhere nice, but many nice kids aren’t (in this ANALOGY, which was obviously constructed ny Mike S to elucidate the greater problem facing US citizens who don’t want to be pawns of a fascist authoritarian theocracy)?
And then, could we talk about tactics or self-identify and take it offline to i/r/l to meet and strategize and DO?
Sure. Why not?