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"Zero tolerance" is just the lazy persons's way was of getting to exercise "zero common sense"
Zero tolerance in this case is the equivalent of saying a rapist and a rape victim are equally guilty. Hey, under zero tolerance, they both participated, therefore they must be punished equally.
This police officer is misguided in her advice which is typical of most Law Enforcement agency training. I think the right to self defense should be upheld by officers, particularly when they can't be everywhere at all times to prevent violence. They are in effect 'creating' sheep & imposing martyrdom with this legal philosophy imposed on social norms.
The school had to suspend both children. It must do everything within reason to discourage any kind of violence. Bully or not no one wants to see a 10 year old seriously injured.
Bullies only understand one thing and this one got a lesson.
Maybe if more of this happened bullying wouldn't be such a big problem.
The little punk bully should have been taught NOT to pick on someone much bigger then you who can body slam your sorry butt if you bully them.
I heard the boy ask him to please stop and the little wanna be tough boy did not and got his clock ringed.
The Mom should have raised a smarter kid and taught him to not pick on others.
If anything the Mom owes the boy a big thank you for doing her a favor by only slamming him once and did not continue to kick his sorry butt all over the place.
The school had to suspend both children. It must do everything within reason to discourage any kind of violence. Bully or not no one wants to see a 10 year old seriously injured.
Maybe he shouldn't have tried to injure the other kid..............
Good for the kid, stupid school suspended him for as long a period of time as the bully...typical mindless school reaction.
Could have been a pretty thoughtful reaction. Suspending them both makes the big kid an equal rather than a victim in the minds of the kids. Maybe this is a bit of prison thinking but--this is public school, it's basically a prison and kids can be savages.
I agree totally. The only person I disagree with is the mother demanding an apology. She should be sitting her son down for a long lecture on the evils of bullying people and how lucky he is that he didn't get more seriously hurt. He got the crop that he sewed.
I have no sympathy for this woman. She made a bad situation, for her family, worse by demanding an apology.
Official leadership (schools, government, the police) hates the idea of people standing up for themselves. Apparently the bullied kid should have put up with any abuse the bully wanted to dish out, and "reported" it to school officials, who would then call the bully in and give him a good talking-to. Said bully would then attack the victim more viciously in retribution for reporting him.
Lesson in real-life: if you're going to be a bully, eventually someone is going to take some serious revenge.
This "punish the one who strikes back" policy has been going on in schools for a long time. The sad fact is, sometimes the bullies are very much admired kids, and the bullied are often perceived as a little 'different'.
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