Skinny little bully gets chopped in half by chubby kid.

Everyone in my school was really nice, we were all nice with each other

I went a lutheran private school until high school, and there was a pretty serious problem with one of the boys being picked on alot, when it was brought to the teachers attention she told us that we should always turn the other cheek. things eventually escalated to the point where the boy was openly attacked on the playground/in the hall and the other kids would make fun of him afterward and tell him to turn the other cheek. thats the only bullying ive ever witnessed but it was pretty fucked up.

I keep really wanting to join in on this indepth convo you guys are having about humanity and compassion and empathy etc, needless to say we are still sitting on a very nerdy internet forum and half of you guys are sticking up for the bully. Is this repressed fear or something?

reminds me of a time i slapped this fat ghetto kid in HS for being a cunt.

then i laughed and ran away as i surely would have gotten raped.

  On 3/16/2011 at 9:38 PM, acid1 said:

I keep really wanting to join in on this indepth convo you guys are having about humanity and compassion and empathy etc, needless to say we are still sitting on a very nerdy internet forum and half of you guys are sticking up for the bully. Is this repressed fear or something?

we like to say the forum is nerdy but how true is it really? It doesn't mean the people were nerds in school. Maybe it's a US thing? The nerds in my school wouldn't have been listening to Aphex Twin. If you need to generalise then if anyone in school was going to end up being into Aphex Twin it was going to be stoners/people who played instruments/people who were really into music (in the sense that they were always looking for new stuff).

people that were into glee club type stuff were/are nerds., I agree with Rambo

  On 3/16/2011 at 4:32 PM, theSun said:

  On 3/16/2011 at 8:02 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

I suppose my acknowledgment was more directed at Awepittance's point about teaching the foundations of empathy, which your idea about teaching pragmatic ethics would tie into. It wouldn't necessarily curb the impulse within kids to be cruel, but it could at least start kids thinking more about the effects of their actions on others, etc. Most of the time with kids it's a case of "hey, everyone else is picking on ___ so I better do the same so as to not be left out", but if topics like bullying are brought up as a serious point of discussion at an early age it may encourage more kids to at least start thinking critically about the shitty actions of their peers rather than blindly following them in kind. I mean, instilling critical thought in kids isn't exactly the easiest task in the world, but with enough focus on it I think a difference could be make in how people interact with one another from childhood into adolescence. Maybe that's a bit on the idealistic side, but it seems like a good place to start.

 

i think the general thinking of the schools is that that part of education should be taught at home. with the beaurocratic nature of the school districts, some class like that would probably be some hippy bullshit. i'm not saying it couldn't be worthwhile, just that it probably wouldn't be.

Yeah... you are probably right. There are some teachers who could make it work, but not many. Better teachers would certainly help...

  On 3/16/2011 at 9:54 PM, Rambo said:

  On 3/16/2011 at 9:38 PM, acid1 said:

I keep really wanting to join in on this indepth convo you guys are having about humanity and compassion and empathy etc, needless to say we are still sitting on a very nerdy internet forum and half of you guys are sticking up for the bully. Is this repressed fear or something?

 

we like to say the forum is nerdy but how true is it really? It doesn't mean the people were nerds in school. Maybe it's a US thing? The nerds in my school wouldn't have been listening to Aphex Twin. If you need to generalise then if anyone in school was going to end up being into Aphex Twin it was going to be stoners/people who played instruments/people who were really into music (in the sense that they were always looking for new stuff).

yup, this is exactly what i found. the few folks i turned onto electronic music were those who were heavily into music/art etc. I was in to sports and all that shit, not a typical jock, but i also loved weirdo music, weirdo movies, books, and all kinds of nerdy shit. i could call my self a nerd due to my interests but i hardly think that is the way i am perceived by most people. especially in high school. but being fairly popular in hs gave me the opportunity to be into crazy stuff without getting picked on and harassed. most people laughed it off. again, i swear this has something to do with my stature as well.

  On 3/16/2011 at 9:54 PM, Rambo said:

  On 3/16/2011 at 9:38 PM, acid1 said:

I keep really wanting to join in on this indepth convo you guys are having about humanity and compassion and empathy etc, needless to say we are still sitting on a very nerdy internet forum and half of you guys are sticking up for the bully. Is this repressed fear or something?

 

we like to say the forum is nerdy but how true is it really? It doesn't mean the people were nerds in school. Maybe it's a US thing? The nerds in my school wouldn't have been listening to Aphex Twin. If you need to generalise then if anyone in school was going to end up being into Aphex Twin it was going to be stoners/people who played instruments/people who were really into music (in the sense that they were always looking for new stuff).

It has nothing to do with listening to aphex twin in high school, it has to do with sitting on the internet posting thousands messages in a forum, regardless of what the topic is.

Skinny little kid got what was needed end off.

  On 3/16/2011 at 7:50 PM, chenGOD said:

Oscillik are you seriously saying that there is a positive aspect to bullying? It had some positive influence in your life?

Bullying is a very mixed bag but I think in most cases with the right kind of parenting it should be merely an early exercise in dealing with assholes.

Awepittance...my biggest problem with most of the things you've said regarding education is that I don't understand how any parent would want that kind of stuff institutionalized. You're going to teach my child how to be a good person? To me that just seems like a central goal of parenting. I would say that generally a classroom should have rules that enforce non-asshole behavior but I'm against actual material regarding it. Elementary through high school I had far too many experience of teachers trying to scar my growing brain with their idiotic opinions regarding many things, including morality. To be very honest I would not trust any of them to actually teach my kids about it.

  On 3/16/2011 at 11:03 PM, acid1 said:

  On 3/16/2011 at 9:54 PM, Rambo said:

  On 3/16/2011 at 9:38 PM, acid1 said:

I keep really wanting to join in on this indepth convo you guys are having about humanity and compassion and empathy etc, needless to say we are still sitting on a very nerdy internet forum and half of you guys are sticking up for the bully. Is this repressed fear or something?

 

we like to say the forum is nerdy but how true is it really? It doesn't mean the people were nerds in school. Maybe it's a US thing? The nerds in my school wouldn't have been listening to Aphex Twin. If you need to generalise then if anyone in school was going to end up being into Aphex Twin it was going to be stoners/people who played instruments/people who were really into music (in the sense that they were always looking for new stuff).

 

It has nothing to do with listening to aphex twin in high school, it has to do with sitting on the internet posting thousands messages in a forum, regardless of what the topic is.

You do realise what year this is?

10 years ago and maybe you'd have had a point. This is a world were people who would be described as jocks in school spend hours everyday posting messages on sports forums and the average person spends hours playing games and whatever else on facebook....

My point is that if you think spending hours posting thousands of messages on a forum is enough to qualify as a nerd, i would have to say about 50% of the entire western world is a nerd.

Oh hi, did someone insult vegans that live in London?

whereas most of you seemed to get adequate revenge on your bullies, I can't necessarily say the same for myself, which sorta makes sense as to my position.

i grew up in a town where the bullies were good ol' boy hicks. assuming you gave one what for, you can rest assured that you would be tormented the rest of your days by him AND all of his friends in a very harsh and physical manner.

one of my friends embarrassed a kid bullying him in high school, and after that, he would routinely have groups of kids drive around his neighborhood waiting to catch him alone, and they fucked him up good. more than once.

i guess i would say im surprised from my own bullying experiences that so many of you managed to successfully stop it right there and then. luckily as we got older, i more or less ended up becoming friends with some of the bully kids who had chilled out/went to juvie and realized they were acting like idiots....but they were certainly in the minority...

  On 3/16/2011 at 9:54 PM, Rambo said:

  On 3/16/2011 at 9:38 PM, acid1 said:

I keep really wanting to join in on this indepth convo you guys are having about humanity and compassion and empathy etc, needless to say we are still sitting on a very nerdy internet forum and half of you guys are sticking up for the bully. Is this repressed fear or something?

 

we like to say the forum is nerdy but how true is it really? It doesn't mean the people were nerds in school. Maybe it's a US thing? The nerds in my school wouldn't have been listening to Aphex Twin. If you need to generalise then if anyone in school was going to end up being into Aphex Twin it was going to be stoners/people who played instruments/people who were really into music (in the sense that they were always looking for new stuff).

lol described me to a t.

Also just ignore acid1, or pretend he's viet cong and he has your friend...

I think I managed to avoid being the target of bullying by having my head buried in my headphones any time I wasn't in class. So if there was any taunting, I was blissfully ignorant of it. And if I wasn't out to lunch in my own world, I'd be sitting off somewhere with a mix of hippy/druggy/nerd kids who were safely hidden away from any prospective tormentors. Any who would stroll by us would be vastly outnumbered. Actually, as far as bullying is concerned my school seemed to be not so bad, considering there were around 1500 of us. There was one guy who attempted to bully me a couple times in grade 8, and each time someone nearby would be like "hey, WTF are you doing?" and he'd be like "hurhurhur yeah, sorry nevermind..." The bully attempts at my school were sad really, as in the would-be bullies were just totally inept at what they tried to be.

  On 3/16/2011 at 7:56 PM, chenGOD said:

See I agree with Iain (fuck me, that's something I never thought I'd say) .

this is what happens when i fall in love and stop trolling. and start drinking a lot of whiskey.

  On 3/16/2011 at 11:52 PM, Dan C said:

Oh hi, did someone insult vegans that live in London?

 

only some provincial nobody

Man I'm getting bullied in this thread lol

A friend of mine hit me in elementary school when we were having a fight about pencils or some shit, and I hit him back. We were back to being friends two minutes later, but when the teacher asked me why I hit him, I told her "well my dad said I shouldn't hit people, unless they hit me first, then I should defend myself" - as a result, the teacher made a private appointment with both my parents and told them about how wrong this was for half an hour. after that, my dad told me I should stick to what he said but lie to the teacher when she asks me about it.

  On 3/17/2011 at 1:42 AM, acid1 said:

Man I'm getting bullied in this thread lol

oh you're truly hated on here acid1. Dont be mistaken about that.

acid1 speaks his truth. respect

he hates you, acid1

  On 3/17/2011 at 1:55 AM, Terpentintollwut said:

A friend of mine hit me in elementary school when we were having a fight about pencils or some shit, and I hit him back. We were back to being friends two minutes later, but when the teacher asked me why I hit him, I told her "well my dad said I shouldn't hit people, unless they hit me first, then I should defend myself" - as a result, the teacher made a private appointment with both my parents and told them about how wrong this was for half an hour. after that, my dad told me I should stick to what he said but lie to the teacher when she asks me about it.

so, they're not allowed to control behavior of the children but they can bitch at the parents? teachers can fuck off.

Yes all teachers can surely be judged by this one annecdotal event from a decade ago