Re: Being Bullied
:( wow, thats a really sad story Muzna. Heartbreaking. You know, even if you had stood your ground and tried to face them down, it was a mob you were facing. No way to win against a mob. And if you project it out to later years - like high school mobs - facing them down would likely mean a trip to the hospital at the very least.
Bullying has received international attention ever since the Columbine massacre. Laws have been passed, schools are now required to address these issues aggressively and many, many schools have that zero-tolerance policy.
My boys will never, ever respond to physical violence with more physical violence. I wont allow it, they are above that type of behavior. They are being taught to "use words, not hands" to resolve issues and these are words taught to them in school. Words...not hands. If words dont work, its being ingrained both at home and at school that sometimes you need mediation to work things out. Mediation starts with peers and if the peers cannot get issues resolved, the peers escalate to teachers. If teachers cant resolve, it goes to the principal who calls in the parents. And this is just for routine and low-level type bullying. Physical bullying results in suspension, parent meeting with principal, meeting(s) with school psychologist...and only when the psychologist gives the ok can the kid return to school.
Beleive me, bullying is taken very seriously these days. What you endured, Muzna, should have resulted in extreme consequences for the perpetrators. I'd have called the cops and pressed charges. Get the brats sent to juvenile detention for a stretch.
But teaching little kids to respond to violent brats by using more violence? Thats not the answer.