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
Great! This is a wonderful way to get more money from people! It will not, nor can it, ever change anyone’s behavior, tho. Just like all the laws & statutes that try to, they fail. If you subscribe to the theory that “If it stops just ONE…” you are a brain dead moron. Now fine me for being a bully!
No one can reason with facts or logic to an avowed liberal brainwashed moron like Lawrence. His answer “Fine someone else for someone else’s behavior” You cannot educate a person this ignorant.
I’m sure it will go into there slush fund!
Lawrence Minnick, You don’t understand how government works apparently. The government make a law and fines those that don’t follow it. Then, those people go to court to fight the fines and perhaps even challenge the constitutionality of that law itself. Meanwhile, the police are now investigating whether or not two ten year olds who are just being kids on a playground should be charged with bullying so that the government can then confiscate the money of people who weren’t even involved in the incident. At what point does all this bs not involve the government?
True enough!
But folks don’t need the government telling you what to eat how run your household..
They can’t run the government,
they sure as hell can’t run my home!
True
Amen!
Yup, that usually all it takes!
True
Here’s the problem with your entire notion – the current generation of kids coming up through our public education system are a bunch of spineless pussies. They’ve already been conditioned by the liberals running our schools that if they don’t like something, they can merely say they’re offended by it and PRESTO! Instant social issue, however unjustified it truly is. Who gets to decide if this bullying is genuine or just an oversensitive child who has been raised so coddled that he’s afraid of everything? This is a slippery slope already, and putting even more power in the hands of government, even locally, is simply not the answer.