Category: Bullying
Posted by Stacey DuFord on Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 6:02 AMYour kid is a bully - and I'm not putting up with it
If you have a kid who attends a school, any school, then you have dealt with this problem. Unless, of course, your kid is the problem. So, if you read this and you have no idea what I'm talking about, expect a call from me shortly.
Your kid is a bully.
I don't care if he/she is troubled/ADD/ADHD/depressed or whatever, it's up to you to get him/her whatever help he/she needs. It's up to me to make sure my kid doesn't have to come home from school every day with a story about the latest name he's been called or place he's been hit, pinched or poked.
I realize it is a public school, but you know what? When I go out in public I do so with the reasonable assumption that I will not be verbally or physically accosted on a daily basis. I expect the same for my kid. Sure, I could move him to a private school to avoid the misery that is Your Child, but then I'm going to send you the $12,000 bill.
I know my kid isn't perfect either. He has his quirks, his personality issues. However, they don't include berating and belittling other people on a daily basis. So consider yourself warned, mother and father of the bully: This is my second kid. I've seen this already and I'm not putting up with it.
