[ShepherdsDog]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/201 ... icide.html

And still it seems the schools stand by and do very little to protect the victims. They are the ones who have to leave. The police say not to take the law into your own hands, but I say it is our responsibility and right, as members of society, to take the law into our hands when those we've appointed to enforce the law, can't or won't. Talk is cheap. Three or four kids kicking the ever living shit out of a bully is what gets the message across.

[Gunnair]

ShepherdsDog wrote:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/09/23/bullying-son-suicide.html

And still it seems the schools stand by and do very little to protect the victims. They are the ones who have to leave. The police say not to take the law into your own hands, but I say it is our responsibility and right, as members of society, to take the law into our hands when those we've appointed to enforce the law, can't or won't. Talk is cheap. Three or four kids kicking the ever living shit out of a bully is what gets the message across.

I saw this story on CBC yesterday. Devastating and hard to imagine not taking the law into your own hands.

[martin14]

ShepherdsDog wrote:

but I say it is our responsibility and right, as members of society, to take the law into our hands when those we've appointed to enforce the law, can't or won't.

Really sad story.

Shame that our kids have to grow up with this nonsense, we are
not doing a good job as a society.

[Macguyver]

Very sad. We should reflect within at our own actions before we take the law into our own hands. Translation: A few of us might be guilty of what others might consider bullying on this site. Think about it, read a little on the subject and if you want to make real change, do what Jacko did and look at "the man in the mirror".

[jeff744]

Another shame is that if one teacher taught the student to fight back the teacher would get fired, the student given detention, and the bullies a light slap on the wrist and go on to bully the next kid.

[saturn_656]

The effective way to deal with a bully is to prove to everybody how cowardly they truly are by standing up to them and giving it back twice as hard as they gave it to you.

In this case, however, the kid was physically handicapped... somebody should have dealt out some schoolyard justice (because a bully doesn't gave a rats ass about the "punishment" the school admin will give them). When I was that age, that would have never flown with our peer group. He would have been made to regret what he did.

[jeff744]

saturn_656 wrote:

The effective way to deal with a bully is to prove to everybody how cowardly they truly are by standing up to them and giving it back twice as hard as they gave it to you.

In this case, however, the kid was physically handicapped... somebody should have dealt out some schoolyard justice (because a bully doesn't gave a rats ass about the "punishment" the school admin will give them). When I was that age, that would have never flown with our peer group. He would have been made to regret what he did.

Same for my group, bullying was basically non-existent because basically everyone belonged to a group and none of them would have let you beat up or bully one of their members.