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.
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You would think. The fact of the matter is the kid don’t care if the parent pays the fine. The action of using fine is just so someone makes money off and action they call bullying now when it use to be call horseplay and part of growing up. The overkill and over the out of control calling ever little aspect of life bullying is so they can dump down and put fear into those small minds and keep them blind to the fact they will have to fight their own government if they ever want a life of freedom. The extortion has to end. People are living on the streets due the government extortion for petty little things.
B******t, it cannot happen.
Sue the parents of these kids being bullied it’s a lesson to be taught!!!
Good! About time!
Fools.
really as the POTUS is using bullying and blackmail for his own agenda
Brad McKenzie – the government has laws which establish parameters of acceptable behavior for everyone. If parents do not teach and expect their children to treat others with respect and these children bully, hurt or intimidate others; then yes society has the right to enforce a breach of acceptable behavior that damages a person not inside of the family structure.
Jodiann-Howard Kelley – I think you are way off base here. This fine is no different than a speeding ticket. The law is posted for 55 mph and you drive 80, you’ll get a ticket and pay a fine.
Same thing if a child goes beyond the expectations of behavior and attacks or extorts another child, a ticket and fine would be a fair treatment for a first offender. If a child continues to attack others, then assault, or appropriate charges should be brought to deal with a bully.
If we allow these bully’s to go unpunished as children, they become criminals or worse lawyers and CEO’s with no conscience and no respect for fairness and ethics of expected practices.
Sometimes parents don’t know their kids are bullies, kids hide a lot from their parents. Besides, who is to say it’s the parents fault that the kid is an$#%&!@* It doesn’t always work the way you think it does.
Larry, you’re not punishing the child, you’re punishing the parent who already may be incapable of making ends meet. Which often results in the child being abused or neglected more. You’re literally advocating to add to the problem.