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https://www.yahoo.com/gma/parents-york-town-could-face-jail-fine-under-135605554--abc-news-parenting.html
I don't know where this will lead, but a town in NY is considering tossing in jail the parents of school bullies. I wonder if this could lead to tossing them in jail for other reasons, still there is a cost to keeping someone in jail
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The law has received some backlash from parents who claim it goes too far.
“You can’t make parents parent their kid,” one commenter wrote on Facebook.
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Exactly how is a kid with no life experience supposed to know how to deal with bullying? And regardless of age how is one person supposed to defend themselves against many without any help? The only two ways I can think of are with a gun or a bomb. So bullied kids should bring guns to school ?
I was bullied a lot as a child and it really messed up my head and my life a lot. Every adult I knew said something like "it's YOUR problem YOU figure out how to solve it." Again, how the fuck is a kid with no life experience supposed to know what to do? And all the things I was bullied about were things I could not control. They were either genetic (very tall for my age, very early puberty) or my parents' choice (weird clothes, overprotective, didn't go to church).
I agree that many kids today are not taught to deal with life at all, but bullying is a real problem that does real harm and needs to be taken seriously.
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S54,
Enforcing existing laws might be just as good or better than creating new ones. I agree the problem is nothing is really done.
But please don't imply bullied kids are just special snowflakes who need to toughen up and learn to deal with it. Bullying does not work that way. The bullies target the kids who are different or vulnerable, and it does not matter whether they choose to be or not. I suspect about 99% of the time the difference is not the kid's choice.
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Cfuter,
Nothing personal, but I have heard many times about how bullies have a crappy home life, and I don't care. My home life was far from ideal. My parents were very negative and critical and in a bad mood most of the time. I never knew what would piss them off until I did it, and it seemed nearly everything pissed them off. The last thing I needed was more shitty treatment at school, but that is exactly what I got. It was not always just words either. Some of them were really physically abusive. Sorry, but I'm just very sensitive about this whole bullying thing because of how I was treated, and I have a huge amount of resentment about getting a ton of shit for things I could not choose.
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I tend to agree with Ondinette here. I don't give two fucks about how the bullies were treated. In my case, they had a sort of pack mentality. The fuckers all grouped together and physically and emotionally beat me up. I was going through hell with an abusive mother, poverty and on top of that I had to deal with sexual abuse. I never EVER bullied anyone. If anything, all it did was destroy my self esteem further and make me an even bigger target for the bullies.
I say send the kids to jail along with their parents. It may be harsh, but it's the way I feel.
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agreed S54, how would that case even be tried? Prove the kids did the violence and ipso facto, strict liability, you go to jail?
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Well, I know that will never happen, and since I am not in the place to do anything about it, it was just my anger about bullies that made me say that. I know there is no way of enforcing such a law, but I still don't care about the bullies or their parents.
The weird thing was that every time I stood up to a bully in order to protect myself, I was punished by the school. I think that people and kids who are bullied should be listened to, and perhaps something could be done about it.
As far as extending my kindness to someone who bullied me, wouldn't that be a great sign of weakness to them? Maybe in my mind I would be trying to help, but in theirs, they would be thinking of ways to manipulate the situation so they could hurt me more.
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