This is heartbreaking - Child Bullying

I recall, not so many years ago, that when I was a young`un, even the notion that you would mock a disabled classmate was enough to get the entire class pissed off at you. What changed?

I can barely watch that video to be honest and as a parent of a special needs kid it breaks my heart to see this carry on. Honestly some kids are dragged up and they definitely must seeing this behaviour at home. As mentioned above mocking a special needs kid especially bullying one would definitely have been a step to far when I was was in school and you definitely would have got pulled up on it form other class mates. It must be terrible seeing your child go through this.

It's interesting that in threads with video evidence, many posters are automatically a lot more sympathetic towards the victim of bullying.
When bullying in young years it discussed as a general topic, there is no shortage of people that boast how we all just have to toughen up and it's good for building your personality really. Oh and of course how weak the young generation is.

Bullying is no joke. Remember Ana Kriegel? She was ostracised by her peers for being mildly disabled, taller and a bit different. This exclusion made her excellent pray for the sick people that are at fault for her tragic death.

I am glad that awareness rises and people have platforms to speak out now. Bullying can drive people into serious mental health problems to the point of not functioning anymore, or in the worst case, suicide.

Just because there aren't videos existing of every incident that ever happened doesn't make it less real.
I hope the school staff and parents of that boy's peers are scarlet red from shame and I hope he finds the happiness he so badly deserves.

It’s down to parenting. This stuff needs to be taught and reinforced at home, it’s too much to ask schools to raise kids for people.

No doubt this will garner a lot of Facebook ‘likes and shares’. Wouldn’t it be great if this could be replaced with ‘I’ve had a conversation with my children’.

My children's school has a zero tolerance policy to bullying.

Children are encouraged to tell parents and teachers immediately.

That being said, I've told my children that they are perfectly entitled to defend themselves.... rather than becoming punchbags.

BanditLuke wrote: »

Nothing. People have always been cnuts

True. From the chap with a wooden club who lived in a cave. To the douchebag in his flying car in 200 years time. It'll always be the same.

The bullying behaviour often comes from the actions or behaviour of parents of the bully
I've seen it countless times

Ironicname wrote: »

65k raised on gofundme to take him to Disney and has already been offered to be taken to wrestle mania by the wrestlers themselves.

The comic who kicked off the GoFundMe is the same fella who was caught telling a story of when he effectively raped a woman along with another comic.
Later played it off as "it was a joke, I made it up on the spot".

I'd say he's delighted that this story has come along.

Disgraceful.

This stuff has always existed. Like watching a documentary where a young deer is hunted and then torn to shreds by lions. It's cruel. Life has an intrinsically cruel streak to it.

You can only minimise it as much as possible, as weak a solution as it sounds.

While it's always existed, the Advent of social media has had the effect of throwing petrol on a fire, making it multiple times worse. These social media companies are basically scum in my opinion. Every which way they can twist and turn to avoid regulation is taken by them. Slippery eels that care only about profiteering, and yes, even the posting of the video above = profit for them.

Step 1 in combating bullying these days is to get your child off social media and then distance them as far as humanly possible from it. No "supervised" time, no "I'll use this program to filter". Get them off it, full stop. Then, you take other steps, and not before.

I remember a person in a class in secondary school. They must have been bullied before I joined the school, because it already "existed". I tried to be friendly but they didn't want to know, probably because they thought it was a set-up for bullying in some way.

One day in particular, I was sitting behind them and I laughed at something said to me. The person turned around to me, almost teary eyed, and half shouted "what are you laughing at?"

It had gotten so bad mentally that even hearing a laugh to them automatically meant they must be the butt of some joke.

How bad is that? That laughter itself became a negative thing? Still remember it clear as a bell and it still makes me sad recalling it.

I was one of four brothers at secondary school. None of us was bullied. Bullies pick on the weak and isolated.
To stop bullies you need to identify them. My guess is schools do not want to identify bullies.

I'm half thinking of showing this video to my 8 year old son to show him the effect bullying has on another kid. My fella is one of the quiet ones in the class but you never know.

partyguinness wrote: »

That was my logic growing up and I did it a few times. Even if you get the **** kicked out of you I guarantee the bully will never go near you again.

I learned that bullies also like an audience so the more public the punch the better.

This is unpalatable but there is truth to it. If a bully is struck in public by someone ‘weaker’ then they are shamed. No revenge can reverse that. That is why they will then change their target.

He looks like a smart kid also, well able to express himself verbally and emotionally.

Some people are just heartless, and those of us who aren't can't understand why they are that way.
To take joy in someone else's pain and sorrow verges on being evil.