Oh Goddammit Society

https://twitter.com/brutalmoose/status/445702151717675009
Just... gah
Reminds me of how stupid and backwards the world we live in it

 

im trying to find a reason to not hate everything right now... and im not finding one

 

Least we can hope right? maybe the next generation will kill this generation and make it 10x better

 

Well was the kid a little girl or a teenage boy? If he's a brony and your flaunting around your pony gear then I don't see how you expect to not get picked on.

 

(I'm going to assume it's a boy) The kid showing that he is a brony isn't the point here - it's the fact that the school is essentially making the bullies seem like they're in the right by stopping him from wearing the MLP gear rather than taking the proper measures against the bullies themselves.

 

See, yeah, it's a given that this is going to happen, and while it disgusts me that it will, that's not what truly angers me about this.
What makes me mad is that this is textbook terrible school administration, rather than combat the problem and promote a better attitude among students, they remove the problem altogether and show that 1, as the tweet said bullying does work, and 2, there's nothing the students can do about it, this is just how things are. While removing the problem may be an appropriate approach in some situations, it is absolutely not here.

 

put your faith in babies

 

You have a point. Either case they shouldn't of told him to remove it. But on a unrelated note, if the kids were just saying something "mean" to him, I don't count that as bullying. Highschool also serves growing a skin, which you need if your going to openly show off that your a brony.

 

you're right. i don't know the extent of the confrontation, i'm just assuming it was more than derogatory comments since that's the vibe the tweet gave. i'm more inclined to think that it wasn't just mean talk. and i would think that tough skin would be something of a prerequisite for wearing a mlp bag in hs, since openly liking what you like is the mantra of bronies.

 

I've never trusted school administrators to solve anything among students. As far as the admins I had to deal with in elementary/middle school, they never knew about any of the real goings on among the student body, and they never particularly cared to learn. They would call students down, scold 'em for a few minutes and let them go back to tormenting others. It never stopped, and that was coming from a private place where parents are PAYING for a better quality of schooling for their kids. It makes me sick.

Anyway, kids and teens make me weep for humanity 97% of the time, but the other 3% can be redeemed in my eyes.

 

The problem with the situation, as is presented through the tweet, is that we don't know how often mean things were said and what both parties were doing. It's one thing if the kid is being absolutely obnoxious about the backpack and the franchise, and then some people say rather mean spirited things to him and he starts to bawl about it. In that case, both parties need something said to them, and the kid especially needs to hear that if he's going to be incredibly obnoxious and in people's faces with what he does, he should expect some backlash and make some stride to tone it down.

It's another thing if the kid is just wearing the backpack and happens to like the show, and these people are going very much out of their way to start stuff with him. If you're being the former, that's one of the few times where I could see the "grow a thicker skin" argument to be something to abide by. In the latter, that's just excusing people to be horrible to someone who's not even doing anything wrong.

 

The problem with saying that about private schools is that the administration will let things slide to keep the parents paying $$$ if the school is small enough and the offense isn't "large" enough. Legit, I'm not kidding, my mom teaches 4th grade at a private school and one of her kids would throw rocks at other kids during recess and the administration kept brushing it off to keep the kid in their school. Eventually he was expelled because at some point (in my mind that point is not after the 5th of 6th time it's happened but w/e) enough is enough. Luckily none of the kids were hurt, the rocks were those tiny playground pebbles.

 

True, but any place of learning should be putting the health/well-being of students before profits. I get that the world isn't perfect and that's not how it'll ever work, but it's not fair at all, and it just pisses me off.

 

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So in other words, you cant really win against these kinds of schools if your convicted of something even as trivial as wearing a backpack?

 

no i know im just stating the unfortunate reality of some of these situations

 

it's not a matter of being convicted. if the school needs to stop the bullying short-term, don't get rid of the bullies, just get rid of the backpack
more often than not, the majority gets their way and the minority is shit out of luck

 

I learned rather early on that I was on my own when it came to bullying. Instead of punishing them, my teachers just pulled the 'Oh that means he likes you, tee hee' crap. Which is a terrible mentality to have. That abuse = love. No. Abuse is abuse. You're supposed to be the authority figure, not romanticizing the fact your student is being abused.

But anyway, the only action that was taken was when three boys decided it would be funny to follow me home from school. Since I walked home and it was a hot day so I decided to take my shoes and socks off to do so. [Apparently this meant that I was a lesbian]. And really all that happened was they were forced to apologize and spent an afternoon after school.

To this day, I am scared to death that someone will follow me home from work. I don't like it when someone is walking behind me. I'll stop and let then go ahead of me.

Bullying is a problem in schools and in workplaces. I thought it would stop once I started working but I cannot believe the amount of abuse retail workers get from adults. I've been looked down upon. I've been called horrible names. I've been propositioned by dirty old men. [One of which is no longer allowed in the store and I have full permission to call the police if I see him on the grounds.]

 

Isn't bullying essentially verbal? I mean, there are different types of abuse; verbal, physical, and mental. So why should a child, being as impressionable as they are, ignore people and grow a thick skin? For some people, this doesn't come as easy as you would like to say it does. In the end, this child will be made fun of still for liking the show, even if the school made him not able to wear the backpack. Kids are cruel and will always remember that one thing you did when you were five and you'll never be able to live that down.

Saying that this isn't bullying and that the kid is supposed to grow a thick skin is just asinine in my opinion.

 

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In a perfect world. You will always be made of fun when you get out of school, you have to learn with how to just deal with it. Verbal abuse is a thing, but its lowest the three. I think nitpicking whenever somebody makes fun of you creates this hypersensitive community where everyone is offended over everything.
But it really depends on how young we are talking. If the kid is 6, yeah put an end to it. But if we are talking middleschool and up, it becomes a point where you to deal with it.

Just my 2 cents. I'm really just trying to say I think people should strife to become tougher people instead of becoming oversensitive.