It's one thing to teach that Homosexuality is a sin. But if it were teaching them to dehumanize someone who is gay, that's a different story.
Church leaders are responsible for speaking the truth. Violence is another matter. Most of us sit under such teaching and do not bully others. Those who become violent are responsible for their own actions.
Yes students should feel safe no matter. However I see it as a problem with the parents that they don't teach their kids NOT to be bullies. If the parents are abusive to the children or drug addicts, prosistutes or just plain negligent, then is it any wonder if the kids have issues knowing how to socialize with others?
I'm subistute teaching at an alternative school and spoke with a 15 year old today who has a 2 year old daughter. there is more issues to the story and around each child then what can be read in a newspaper.
It was wrong and illegal for his mother to give him a stun gun. She should have taught him other ways to handle the situation.
I would have had his brother and a friend escort him from one class to another. IF anyone threatened him, he could send the friend or his brother to get an adult or the School Resource Officer.
Giving him a stun gun and encouraging he use it upon other students was not the answer no matter how threaten he felt.
what is he going to do when he gets a job and his co workers pick on him about being gay?
I'm not saying its right, I'm just being realistic. people are going to pick on you.
I'm subistute teaching at an alternative school and spoke with a 15 year old today who has a 2 year old daughter. there is more issues to the story and around each child then what can be read in a newspaper.
It was wrong and illegal for his mother to give him a stun gun. She should have taught him other ways to handle the situation.
I would have had his brother and a friend escort him from one class to another. IF anyone threatened him, he could send the friend or his brother to get an adult or the School Resource Officer.
Giving him a stun gun and encouraging he use it upon other students was not the answer no matter how threaten he felt.
what is he going to do when he gets a job and his co workers pick on him about being gay?
I'm not saying its right, I'm just being realistic. people are going to pick on you.
As for coworkers, they are not going to gang up on him away from supervision and beat him to within an inch of his life. That just cannot be done. They can harass and bully him, even get him fired by pushing his employer. In those cases, different strategies need to be used, and a stun gun isn't one of them. It did work from him not getting beat up, perhaps.
what many people don't know or consider is the messed up lives the bullies are living as well.
perhaps I'm being idealistic but I don't think kids are born bullies. I think its a learned thing.
often when you feel hopeless and have no control over your life, you attempt to regain power and control over others through the methods that others have used upon you.
So when you contact the parents of bullies what do you think happens?
they have a calm reasonable discussion of what their child did wrong?
Or they yell and fly off the handle and shoot up laptops?
perhaps I'm being idealistic but I don't think kids are born bullies. I think its a learned thing.
often when you feel hopeless and have no control over your life, you attempt to regain power and control over others through the methods that others have used upon you.
So when you contact the parents of bullies what do you think happens?
they have a calm reasonable discussion of what their child did wrong?
Or they yell and fly off the handle and shoot up laptops?
The bully behavior may stem from problems at home (which can't be fixed by school authorities, only the symptoms can be alleviated, if at all) or the behaviour may be a copied one from his parents. After all, if a bully was raised by a father who thinks gays are pansies and wussies and abominations, how can we expect the child to act any differently?