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
Every bully I knew grew up to be janitors so stick it up your$#%&!@*Stevenson
You support the government telling people how they should raise their kids.
So, instead of holding the kid responsible for his own actions, by spanking his butt, the government gets to bully the parent? What if the parent is poor and bed ridden with a disease, and the child is acting out? You do realize that we won the War with$#%&!@*Germany, and National Socialism is a failed ideology…right?
I ran away from home at 16 to get away from my parents, and got a protection order against them. Even with all their faults, forcing your progressive idea of Quasi$#%&!@*National Socialism is more extreme than anything my parents ever did to me.
Lawrence Minnick You support nanny regulatory communism, you liberals are always in other peoples business with with behavioral laws which is why you start so damned many wars and spread Hate of everything not liberal, too bad you also create amoral cesspools filled with your own people who you force into poverty! I agree, North Korea would be perfect for you!
Everyone should be help accountable for their own actions. You reap what you sow, Liberals create amoral cesspools and poverty and now they want to create even more behavioral laws, maybe they want to wipe my$#%&!@*next time I drop one of them in the toilet!
I agree Mike since they, the parents created them
That is just extortion. No way to prove the kid bullied. So say they did extort money out of those already in debt with a kid in school.
The parent is responsible when they are in their care. Note in their care. The forced schooling put the kid in the care of the school at the time so the school is responsible and should pay the fine.
They will call a tax anything just to get your money