Quote Originally Posted by gore
School shootings are easy to prevent. If you see someone getting picked on, step in, stop it. Every school shooting I've seen was kids who got picked on and eventually couldn't take it anymore so they came in and mowed them down.

My Fiancee and I were talking about this earlier in the morning, if our kid ever comes home saying he picks on some kid at school and beats him and mentally abuses them like these kids go through I'll just pop a Columbine clip on youtube up and point.

Video games, gun, movies, music, none of that is half as deadly as mental and physical abuse that most people don't realise even happens in schools. I've seen people beaten badly in school by a group of kids and no one did a thing.

I used to get jumped about twice a day by a group of skinheads, stabbed ... I think 12 times... no one stopped them, and telling your Parents does NOTHING and makes it worse. They call the kids parents, the kids parents yell at him or talk to him about it, and the kid gets pissed he got ratted out, and does worse.

Or scenerio B:

Parent talks to school instead of other Parent. School does nothing but bitch at the kid, kid gets pissed at being ratted out, does worse.

Hmm.... Win win huh?

My idea:

Stop letting people walk all over kids at schools and the mental and physical abuse. I see parents saying "Oh we were kids too, we survived just fine, it'll toughen you up"....

Well those morons went to school before kids got stabbed in schools, shot in schools, and calling someone "A jive turkey with 4 eyes" is a lot different than shoving them in a bathroom and beating the **** out of them and then going home and talking about it on Myspace so the kid has no where to go to get away from it.

If you want to really solve it grab your kid and beat his ass for doing this type of thing.
I agree. The bullies are way out of control. When I was in school, we got spanked when we acted up. It makes everyone think before they act like a fool. They don't want to look bad in front of their peers by getting spanked, so they seldom went over the line.
My mother is a retired teacher. She taught before and after spankings where banned in public schools. She decided to retire when retirement was available to her because the students where out of control. She only stayed retired for about a year, then went back to teach a younger age group of students.
Children that ridicule other children deserve to have their asses busted. None of them are any better than the other. There is no respect for others, and it shows. We need to get this problem under control and fast. No one deserves that crap!