Bullying

I was bullied in school, too, until I fought back. When I whipped the school bully (he was in the 5th grade, I was in the 4th...and a girl!!) the bullying stopped. Standing up to one's attackers, be they physical or verbal, is one of the best things you can teach a kid, and I'm personally puzzled about why schools adopt this milquetoast mentality when it comes to dealing with bullies. There's another option, too: go to a lawyer and sue the school system. Taking their precious money away from them gets them to listen faster than just about anything. Or, go to a TV news station. Schools don't like the publicity. Good luck.

I knew a family who moved from a big city to a tiny town and had the same problem. Maybe a relocation would lessen the problem. Homeschool is another possibility.

I would raise absolute hell at the school and with the parents. I would talk to the news and anyone higher with control at the school. That is unacceptable.

Thats ridiculous! A responsible school should intervene and take care of such issues immediately. Its horrible for the kids to be bullied everyday.

So sorry your kids are going through this! I guess the best thing is to try and tough it out until the school year ends. I certainly would tell my kids to fight back, if the school won't do anything. But if you have such severe bullying that the kids are breaking your daughter's finger and throwing rocks with impunity, I might also consider calling the police or CPS to file a report on the children responsible. If the school can't or won't protect your kids, maybe you ought to turn to other authorities for help....

Guess I am out of the school loop. Is there like a pta meeting or school meeting that you can go to? What about the county superintendent?

contact support groups and networks of anti-bullying organizations - also find out all you can on the bullies - if they have social networking sites they might be dumb enough boast about their behaviour online - don't follow them under your real name or they might guess what you are doing - . You could consider trying to get film or audio footage of them intimidating your children, who are probably not the only victims of such morons - good luck

It very much is the schools responsibility as to what happens after you leave the children in their care. You should contact higher authorities or even the police if the school does not take any action against the erring kids.

Can't you talk to the parents? Can't you turn to a social worker or the police?

I have three daughters and all of them were being bullied in school in their elementary years. I really talk to the teachers and even the parents but still the bullying partially continues. So I just prayed hard that my daughters wouldn't be harm by them. I never told them to fight back because I was thinking they might lose the fight and got hurt.

I would be calling the local news and let them know what's going on. They will probably run that story. I am stunned that even the superintendent is doing nothing. How would he feel if that was his kid getting bullied. Shameful mess.

When a friends kids were being bullied badly at school and more or less the school did nothing,her husband enrolled the kids in self-defence and karate classes and told them to fight back and fight back they did.soon the bullying was history. Personally,I would pull the kids out of that school.Fighting back can seriously backfire.Remember a kid being bullied is usually alone while the bullies because they are cowards, are usually more than 3.

I am a teacher in one of the remotest school here in our place,I am dealing with small children ages 5-8 years old,I also have sons ages 7 and 3.I am against of bullying really.Bullying is rampant in our school,so what I did,during our general meeting with the parents,I told them my rules inside my classroom or even outside when it comes to disciplining my pupils.My number 1 rule is:Don't do unto others what you want others do unto you.If I caught you or someone told me who is bullying your classmate/s and if I found you guilty,I really let those kids that they bullied return what they did to him/her.I let him/her fight back.My possession about this is because I let them know that what they do unto others is not good.So that they also feel the pain that they give to their classmates.Because if I'm not doing this,they will continue bullying/hurting others.I also talk with their parents too,to help me giving right advises to them.Children's learning both mental,social and spiritual in not only in teachers hand but for all,first family,school and environment.Good to know that parents agree with me.We, parents send our children to school not to be bullied but to learn something.My hearts is aching upon hearing your story@fizzyrain.