One school's solution to bullies.

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It contains such pearls of wisdom as,
Rule #7: Do not tell on bullies. The number one reason bullies hate their victims, is because the victims tell on them. Telling makes the bully want to retaliate. Tell an adult only when a real injury or crime (theft of something valuable) has occurred. Would we keep our friends if we tattled on them?
Rule #8: Don't be a sore loser.
Rule #9: Learn to laugh at yourself and not get "hooked" by put-downs. Make a joke out of it or agree with the put-down. For example: "If you think I'm ugly, you should see my sister!"
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This was a brochure sent home by a Nebraska school with its students.

More at the link.

http://jezebel.com/nebraska-sc...r-to-deal-1564016234

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I was periodically bullied, as are probably a lot of students. I don't think the above suggestions would have done much good.
 
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Rules one and three are ok (not the clap-trap reasoning behind them, just the rules), especially when breaking rule five... Also, rule four is appropriate; our ability to spew clever one-liners diminishes with a rise in anger, so just remain silent when breaking rule five.
 
typical ... disavowing all knowledge of the responsible party.
Wouldn't you just like to circle around the moonbat, hand it, it's own flier and have us all some fun while we see how it works for em?

Betcha they'd find better advice to give, if even off record.

rule 1 is learn where they sleep
rule 2 is learn to rain hellfire
 
venomballistics said:
typical ... disavowing all knowledge of the responsible party.
Wouldn't you just like to circle around the moonbat, hand it, it's own flier and have us all some fun while we see how it works for em?
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Their security detail would never let you get close enough.
 
I don't know if I would classify a bully as an "enemy" but he sure as heck ain't my "buddy" either.
If I had kids in school I would be pretty riled with what I see being taught to them these days.
 
One time I got selected to go to State forestry Camp. A bus school ran down through the country side and picked me up.
There were already about 20 guys on the bus. Most of were them bigger than me, and I didn't know any of them. I took an empty seat, second one behind the driver.
The guy behind me started in on me before the bus got moving. I told him to stop, that only egged him on. In the seat in front of me was a duffel bag with sports gear. Several bats were sticking out the top.
I stood up, picked a bat and turned around. The bully yelled something like 'you ain't going to do anything'.
Then I hit him solidly right above the ear. When you get unto this type of situation, sincerity is paramount. Talking can always be judged to be meaningless. A good hit on the head is sincere.
The bus driver who had heard the whole thing laughed. The rest of the guys in the bus probably noted that this is not a guy to be messed with.
I had a great time at forestry camp! Observed my first sawmill bandsaw.
 
A big mistake

When I was younger I was a peacenik that hated confrontation. (enough of that at home) and I made it a point to ignore bullies. It didn't work. It would have been much better if I gave back what I got, as I know I could have creamed at least half of them and maybe got a little more respect from the ones that I couldn't.

I loved the video where the smart butt little kid was antagonizing the fat kid. The fat kid took it, and took it, then managed to get a hand on him, lifted him over his head and slammed him onto the concrete. The kid was lucky he only got a broken leg.:D:D:D
 
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Curious to know if this handout is genuine, sounds like it was made up by someone with a good feel for how the PC Crowd expresses itself. Nothing like making your enemies look foolish.
I like the idea of making the bully duke it out with someone bigger and stronger-three rounds, Marquis of Queensberry Rules, in a public venue.
Judicious application of shoe leather to a particularly sensitive sector of the male anatomy is quite effective .
 
We had bullies at my high school, we also had boxing in gym class. For some reason I never bullies in the gym.
 
I was a skinny kid, and got bullied and did not like fighting. My Dad, a Normandy veteran, had an "Attack! Attack! Attack!" attitude and no sympathy for my wimpiness. So I fought a lot, and lost a lot of fights.

At the time, I never realized that I rarely ever fought the same person twice, whether I lost or not -- and I rarely won.

At a highschool reunion in 1999, 25th year reunion, I was surprised to overhear as I walked by a group someone pointing me out to someone else and saying: "Be careful with him...that guy will fight anybody."
 
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My oldest son is mildly autistic, with severe Asperger's Syndrome. As such, he has difficulties maintaining peer-to-peer relationships. When he was in junior high school, a couple of kids really picked on him. We had always taught him not to start anything, but to take up for himself.

One day, this one kid started on our son after a class. He pushed our son several times going up the steps. Our son turned around, told the kid to stop; but the knucklehead kid couldn't. Our son punched this kid in the jaw, and the kid fell down about five steps. A teacher saw what happened, and immediately took our son and the knucklehead to the office.

We got a phone call from the assistant principal, and we went right to the office. The assistant principal told us he had to suspend our son - for the rest of the day (and no teacher marked him absent). The other kid got suspended for three days.

After that, he was never touched again.
 
I was skinny and very passive as a youngster.

Like a lot of kids mom sent me to summer camp. I was picked on constantly. It was h!@#.

Then one day one of the bullies said something bad about my grandmother. All went well, he got out of the infirmary about 4 hours later.

You DO NOT mess with my family.
 
In "my" day-Grades 7-12 here in Central NJ-the word that struck fear and terror into unruly young males was "JAMESBURG" ! That was the state's main reform school, unlike these country club institutions with their "college campus" atmosphere today it was a place all but the most hardened wanted to stay out of.
 
Hodgin said:
Sounds strange. Apparently the school doesn't know the who's responsible for sending it out.
Parents Still Questioning the Origin of Inaccurate Bullying Flyer
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Ahhhh BS. They know exactly who was the team of experts who put this together, and who critiqued it, approved it, and who put their 2 cents in.

My younger son was bullied, and it wound up getting pretty bad. He was VERY hurt and frustrated. He told the teachers, and they were rather thick-skulled in their dismissal of his pleas for some help. He was trying to be the good kid, and not fight.

Finally, I told him to not bother with holding back, and if the guy is asking for it... feed it to him.

So he did. Big time. And when we were called in to the office, they were 'shocked' to hear that he was being bullied. And they felt he was not really serious when he had complained the 3 times. Yeah... 3 different times over a 2 week period when he'd had it up to here. Teachers aide had to admit that the other kid harassed him, and threw several punches before my son reacted..... but my son did not bother with just patty-caking with the kid. He split the kids lip, and bloodied his nose heavily. Got him to the ground, got on top and hammered the guy good.

The principal told us that 'Regardless of who is at fault and regardless of the fact that he was defending himself, he would be suspended for the rest of the week- 3 days. This is a very serious matter. Now DAD- what do you have to say about this?'

" Well- if he ever comes after you again, don't be nice to him like you were today. You show him you REALLY mean business, and I will back you up and sue these idiots to back to the stone age. And, since you are off school for the next 3 days..... Let's go home and grab the rods and go fishing. We'll fish a different place each day; it will be great!"

"Does that about cover it for you????":cool:

The principal looked at me. My sons' teacher looked at me. The TA looked at me. The other kids' parents, who were in the room looked at me. The other kid was in the nurses office, getting his nose iced. I'm pretty sure the kids' dad got the message very clear, the look I gave each of them was not the one that said "Let's all go grab a beer and forget about all this.":rolleyes:

The principal had the kid transferred, and I think he did so to protect himself...... he did not give one rat-fink about the kids.

True story- maybe the greatest single day of being a dad!:D
 
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You cannot reason with the unreasonable. There are those that understand only the language of force. These two truths undermine so much of the current perspective on life.

My opinion, so many of these school shootings are caused by the zero tolerance (and zero thought by school administrators) policies. The good kids get picked on, and they don't want to get in trouble by fighting back. Eventually, they get fed up and snap. Bad things happen.

I have a son that was being picked on in kindergarten. He was coming home with marks and scratches. When I talked to him about it, he didn't want to get in trouble and lose his weekend XBox time. I sat him down and told him that he would not get in touble for defending himself, but that he would get in trouble with me if he didn't defend himself. I even told him that it would be fun and funny to hit the other boy in the nose and make him cry in front of everyone. He had to use that once or twice, but he hasn't been bullied since then.
 
Gutless bullies always pick smaller targets since they are gutless and I was never large in stature.

When I was in school my dad always told us if we ever picked a fight we deserved to get our a** kicked, but if we were defending ourselves then he simply said "hurt them" and we would never get in trouble.

Now since I was not a big guy there were some who picked on me. When the time came to dot their eye they never tried messing with me again. They only tried once.

so with that said if your picked on the only correct way to correct the error is to
1. dot their eye
2. give them a split lip
3. bloody the nose.
 
I tried to keep all that in mind when the bully stabbed my 9 year old son in the nose with the sharp steel scissors Thursday. It did not work.
 
My older brother loved to fight, I never cared too much for it but never backed down from one either, as a result I got my fanny handed to me many times! I will say though back in those days after the fight was over we normally shook hands and walked away friends, not bosom buddies mind you but on good speaking terms anyway. Never got in trouble from the school either. My have things have changed.
 
My two oldest were picked on occasionally, and on the same day had enough. They both got a 2 day suspension. I wasn't at all upset with them, I told them that in our modern times there is often a penalty for doing the right thing. Then at the family Christmas party, I had them explain the their grandfather (mom's side) why they got themselves suspended, a small crowd gathered around to hear what the retired Command Sargent Major had to say to his grandsons. He started like this, "Did I tell about the day in my senior year I threw a teacher through the window in the principal's office?" It really was a good story. Ivan
 
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