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
Gene – You are the ignorant one. you know nothing about me and yet you call names, like a little child. It is because of ignorant people like you that our country’s governments are out of control. We need to reshape our laws, as we have too many people in prison. Our government grows and grows because it funds itself and a large bureaucracy suits the beliefs of the bureaucratic mind.
This ticketing of aggressive bully’s is an intelligent manner to use LESS government to address what many feel is a problem with our youth and society.
From your response it seems evident that you are a bully and the insults that you throw out are a result no one disciplining your stupid$#%&!@* as a young smart mouth. I suspect that your children are exactly the type of arrogant bully’s that you are displaying here, and is the real reason that you are against any creative new way to address this issue with parents who refuse to stop their children who attack others.
Morgan – evidently it is you that doesn’t understand this situation. No laws have been changed in this situation. The laws remain the same. The fine is a new simpler way to address bullying WITHOUT the need to go through a major court battle and ruining lives and wasting time and money.
We aren’t talking about the little kid getting pushed to the ground at recess. This is a way to identify the growth and use of violence as a youth, before someone gets hurt and before this budding criminal is beyond repair.
how about teaching kids that bully,that the kids getting picked on grow up to be whiny left wing democrats,a good deterant,we have enough panty waist punks in democrat party
That’s going to be an Obama thing he got his$#%&!@*kicked every day for being a p***y
Begin there, with their parents
But you are totally correct. To get respect, you give respect.
The anti-bullying party
All this will do is cause a rise in child abuse ! Making parents that are struggling have to pay a fine will make them be more harsh on the punishment of the children ! So my child is a bully and the city benefits from it !! Yeah OK !!
Bullying may not have been the parents fault – it may be what the child’s peers are doing. For most parents are not bullies.
Good. It’s the parents that should teach their heathens the difference between right and wrong.