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This is the kind of child who was never taught
to keep there hands to thereself by the parents.
If a child is hitting others in the class or in school, or on the bus to school,
they should be stopped immediately, and the teacher
or buss driver should not let it go on ! ! !
Later on another child will beat the child severely
or shoot them with a gun ! ! !
We don't know what the child was doing to be accused of being a bully.
My daughter was accused of being a bully in second grade because she told a girl that another girl had called her "talking pants." Was it wrong to repeat something mean that someone else had said? Yes, it wasn't nice. Do adults do it all the time? Yes. Was my daughter a bully for that? I really don't think so, she just didn't have the social skills to know that she was doing something she shouldn't have.
I don't know what the child in the story was accused of doing to be considered a bully. That story was local where I live and there was more info on our news stations. The school district administrators were quoted as saying that the teacher responsible was a new teacher who needed to be reschooled in what was acceptable in the classroom. So it doesn't sound that much like a case of a little bully getting what was coming to him.
If that happened to my child at school, I would sue the school district and the teacher. It wasn't acceptable at all, no matter what he might have been doing.
What gets me is that the comments all seem to be in favor of what the teacher did. They assume that the child in question was a bully, but the pushing that was going on on the monkey bars looked like normal 6 year old boy playing not bullying to me. And the kids were all laughing.
Now, if the child was actually being a bully, then something certainly should have been done, but having all the kids hit him is not a solution.
The kid was SIX. I think people are way too quick to want to label every childhood dispute "bullying." When I hear about bullying, I expect to hear about relentless torture and torment of another student, making school unbearable for another kid...not a six year old pushing another kid on the playground. If his so called "bullying" was that bad, what steps did the teacher take to correct it? Did she contact his parents? Did she refer him to the principal? School counselor? Anything besides force the other kids to hit him?
This is one situation I can say that the mom is not overreacting. I'd be beyond furious if this happened to my child. If she's misbehaving in school, I expect for it to be handled professionally and ethically. I expect to be contacted about it. But I would NOT expect anyone to be putting their hands on her. Completely unacceptable.
It always amazes me that teachers who spend years get degrees can be this stupid.
Not me. Elementary Ed majors never ever struck me as the sharpest knives in the drawer when I had to work with them in college. A few were alright, but as a whole .
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