Bullies have existed since time immemorial, and they still exist everywhere, from the workplace to the community, and as always, in the schoolyard.
It would be nice if that unpleasant reality of interpersonal relations could be eliminated, but the question is how.
Bullies don’t usually respond to reason or cajoling, but they often do respond to brute force. Many of us remember being tested by the school bully, finally standing up to him and planting a solid punch right on his nose, and suddenly seeing the bully turn into a reasonable, even pleasant human being. This applies to raising kids in general, where the bully child constantly tests the parent and sometimes only responds to brute force rather than cajoling and pleading.
The problem is that liberals and lefty politicians have fallen for the whole “self esteem” movement, so kids are given way too much power and never experience a reprimand more forceful than a “time out.” And to make sure that is so, laws have been passed so that any discipline more forceful that “let’s reason together, Johnny,” or “please go to your quiet spot Susie” is seen as violent child abuse, to be punished by incarceration or having the children removed from the parents care. Now a new city ordinance in Shawano, Wisconsin puts parents in a double bind, and there is a good deal of confusion and disagreement about how fair the ordinance is.
Chile discipline in Shawano, page 2
All about the money when it comes to gov’t….How about a stockade in the city square and put the offenders in it so all can feel what it’s like to be bullied…Like pilgrim days..NO, all today’s pussies need safe spaces
Humm, maybe Trump’s mommy should be fined.
The pussification of our kids continues by pansy$#%&!@*parents and politicians
When the Government allows parents to parent as they see fit..then I’ll support this. They want to hold the parents accountable,but dictate what they can and cannot do as parents.
Good
It really should be classed as a mental disorder,like a transgender! a total danger too the public.
about time.
Wtf?
What a joke. City keeps the money. Lol. Wake up!
Ummmm what? This is ridiculous.