As I was looking at my blog this morning I realized that for
some reason some of my posts have either not been published or have been
deleted. I am not sure which- either way they aren’t even showing up for me. So
here is a summary of some of the posts that are mysteriously missing.
My oldest started public school this past year. I found out
in the middle of Nov that he was being bullied…by someone we knew. This bully
is involved in just about everything we do too. He is a yes/no sir kid to your
face but if you keep watching him (and he doesn’t know it) you will hear him
say/do things that just don’t seem right. So I let it go- they are at the age
where it is a power struggle thing. I let it go until the first weekend in Dec
when the kid threatened (in front of several kids and on school camera- since
they tape everything!) to break my son’s wrist. He had injured his wrist in
wrestling and had it taped. After that I went to the coach, teachers, and Scout
leader. The coach blew it off, said he would have a talk with BOTH my son and
the bully (which I was pissed about). But I don’t think he ever did. The
teachers were surprised (remember I said he was a yes/no sir kid) but said they
would keep an eye out. The Scout leader said that sometimes power goes to a kid’s
head when they become a leader (he was a senior patrol leader in the troop) and
they would have a meeting with him and discuss what being a leader means, etc.
Then my son broke his collar bone during a soccer game. (a
whole other blog) The first thing he said after the pain went down was that he
couldn’t return to school because “the kids already mess with him. What would
they do to him now that he had a broken bone.” I was furious! At both the
school and him. He hadn’t said anything lately about kids bullying him so how
was I to know? And the teachers were suppose to be watching for this – they knew
what was going on! So I had a conversation with the assistant principal about
the safety of my son and kept him out of school for over a week. The assistant
principal seemed shocked that
anything was going on. I told him if my son gets injured or touched in any way
once he returned to school he would hear from my lawyer BEFORE he heard from
me. I will no longer put up with the bullying!
The kids get away with bullying because there is no REAL punishment unless they physically
harm someone or damage property. My son informed me that he can’t tell because the
teachers don’t listen and it gets worse when he does say anything. These
bullies get their hands slapped and then get sent back to class to make life
even worse for kid being bullied. So much for the “No Bullying Policy”.
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