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I'd like to hear the sequel to this. What is the mom going to do about it? What is the school doing to do about bullying on the bus? Maybe all the kids who suffer bullying on the bus should boycott the schoolbus, to force the school to do something. How hard could it be to pay a couple of older teen boys to ride the bus and get tough with the bullies?
I was tormented in middle and high school and I'm still effected by it 20 years later. It got so bad that I was pulled out of public school and home schooled. You will always have some level of bullying, the key is keeping it from getting out of hand. My schools felt like a juvenile detention center, teachers had no control. I think the teachers were too afraid to do anything. In one class a drug dealer would roll his marijuana joints at his desk each day right in front of the teacher. Our schools were way too large, hs had 2,000 students.
I am so sorry you went through that. I think you are right, teachers often are really are afraid to do anything and if they get involved they risk losing their jobs. But in some cases, I do think teachers can say or do something...and they don't. And sometimes, they don't really care because the bullying isn't affecting them personally. That is why so many people stand by and do nothing when someone is being bullied.
I sit my kids done before the first day of school every year, to remind them about how to treat their teachers and fellow classmates.
My daughter stepped in to protect a younger child this year from being bullied. She came home and just happened to tell me the kids name, who's mom just happened to be a school guidance counselor. You best believe I called her right up to inform her. She was happy to be informed by me and not a school ...
I think that is great that she has the courage to step in that way to protect someone else. 90% of other kids won't do this.
I agree. I've also talked to many parents who simply can't afford to buy car seats. The cheapest new one is about $100. Then they are told they shouldn't buy second hand car seats because they don't know if it's been in an accident (because there could be internal fractures) or it might be expired. Then they have to buy a new carseat when their child outgrows the infant sized one. There are many parents who simply can't afford these. They might have to go a week without groceries to afford a car seat. It is a hardship.
Thank you. I would have repped you again but have to wait to "spread some" around. At last someone sees my point. When I point out overregulation, I get told that I'm heartless, careless, a horrible person who doesn't care about people who get hurt by texting, lack of infant seat use, etc. Finally someone sees that not everyone is made of money.
By the sounds of all the bullying, it would need a US Marshall onboard, awful for the good kids
I think a teenager with a businesslike mien could do it. Certainly, the perpetrators would know that someone was reporting on the "proceedings" and the bus driver wouldn't be forced to either stop the bus, take his or her eyes off the rode or have eyes in the back of their heads.
I agree. I've also talked to many parents who simply can't afford to buy car seats. The cheapest new one is about $100. Then they are told they shouldn't buy second hand car seats because they don't know if it's been in an accident (because there could be internal fractures) or it might be expired. Then they have to buy a new carseat when their child outgrows the infant sized one. There are many parents who simply can't afford these. They might have to go a week without groceries to afford a car seat. It is a hardship.
There are programs that will provide car seats to people who cannot afford them. Your local law enforcement should be able to tell parents where to get them.
Hand me down seats from trusted friends and relatives should be fine.
I think a teenager with a businesslike mien could do it. Certainly, the perpetrators would know that someone was reporting on the "proceedings" and the bus driver wouldn't be forced to either stop the bus, take his or her eyes off the rode or have eyes in the back of their heads.
That's actually a horrible idea unless the person doing the reporting is buff enough to fend for him/herself. I had my own bullying issues to deal with back then, but I do remember one of the fastest ways to get bumped up on the ladder of targets was to even be suspected of being the "narc." If a situation happened where someone was suspected, I usually got a week's reprieve from it all. Anyone given this reporting position would last a month at most before getting tired of being shunned and bullied themselves. A real solution is if the person in the position of reporting the issues on the bus was an aide from the school, sitting in the middle area of the bus so they could keep an eye on both halves of it and no one could get away with things in the back of the bus.
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