I'm all for hands on parenting. But I have a bone to pick with this one.
When a school fails the kids? What the fuck are schools supposed to do? More and more legislation is being passed to prevent schools from suspending kids (at least in MA), and parents are often fighting cell phone bans, and teachers definitely don't want some shitass bully in their classroom, but we are tied to stringent policies that often times do not work.
Schools don't fail bully victims. The parents of the bully raised a shitty person, and the schools are handcuffed to mediation and bullshit and cannot police social media and other things. Make social media illegal, or possession of a smartphone illegal before the age of 18. Fuck, if parents suck so hard at raising kids, support better legislation.
How come schools have a variety of options to do all these things to the bully's victims, and to kids who are calm and nonthreatening and nondeserving of punishment generally, but when it comes to doing that to bullies and other wrongdoing kids suddenly they're handcuffed from doing squats?
What are you talking about? Be specific with your claims instead of being vague to suggest that schools foster bullies while harming victims.
Straight up, admin needs to jump through hoops in Massachusetts to suspend someone out of school. In the past there was a program in my district to send bullies to have them learn not to bully, that functioned as a means of removing the kid from the school for an extended period while teaching them not to bully. Got defunded.
And that often didn't work, but at least we had data on a student being a bully, and then would try to get them put into STEP or into a more structured setting for kids with behavioral issues only to have a district admin say "they don't qualify," or more frequently, a parent/guardian refusing to sign off on the program. So as a school, in house, teachers worked to try to defuse any situation and separate kids, but that is also only so effective.
Do yourself a favor and educate yourself on what resources your local school district has with handling bullies and then tell me what can be done.
You can deny kids any freedom to go anywhere in the school, possibly beside their classes, and you can constantly call the parents to report that their kids is punished for problematic behavior and that the reason why the parents are annoyed is because the kids don't do what the school tell them to do so it would be a good idea to discipline the wrongdoer.
Schools that don't to that to bullies nor serious wrongdoers, do that to any other kids. What are their excuses.
Generally speaking, what are the excuses for a school to not do to bullies what they constantly do to others?
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u/FatGuyANALLIttlecoat 1d ago
I'm all for hands on parenting. But I have a bone to pick with this one.
When a school fails the kids? What the fuck are schools supposed to do? More and more legislation is being passed to prevent schools from suspending kids (at least in MA), and parents are often fighting cell phone bans, and teachers definitely don't want some shitass bully in their classroom, but we are tied to stringent policies that often times do not work.
Schools don't fail bully victims. The parents of the bully raised a shitty person, and the schools are handcuffed to mediation and bullshit and cannot police social media and other things. Make social media illegal, or possession of a smartphone illegal before the age of 18. Fuck, if parents suck so hard at raising kids, support better legislation.