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Got bullied at school so my old man hired a couple of big kids to waylay me on the way home. This went on till I learned to fight back. No more bullies at school.
Got bullied at Duntroon. Trapped a couple of the seniors in Canberra and used a web belt on their heads. Let the classes know who did it and no more bullies.
Got bullied at the Academy. Stuck a .38 so far down a bullies throat he puked all over me. No more bullies there either.
I don't think the weak should be bullied but I don' think they deserve to be mollycoddled either.

A lot of kids get bullied at school at one time or another, and I think growing up can be a challenge learning how the world works.
I didn't get any support or financial compensation in grade three when my teacher used to throw the chalk duster at students (myself included) or lock us in her office cupboard or when bullied a few years later in grade 5 (and not just verbal abuse - constant threat of being beaten up), and other times during school years but I never complained to my parents nor did I whine and try to get out of going...
Parents are supposed to teach their kids to fly, yet many just fall from the nest and go splat. Nice job parenting there...

Why should I care if this kids gay and gets bullied for it.?
What about the millions of other Aussie kids that were bullied before him?
Why should I care or have sympathy if some perverted 15year old boy wants to have sex with his male classmates...
I don't know what schools you guys went to but doing this IS AS MUCH ASKING FOR IT as anything.
That's how kids are or maybe some of you have gotten so old and wise that over time, you all forgot.
If you can't accept the reality of this, then I guess taxpayers will have to start paying for homosexual exclusive schools.
..Another taxpayer expense to support the whining pc crowd.

Schools havent changed, and nor have kids.
There's a local school I know of where they asked kids to wear a special coloured t-shirt to protest and say 'No' to bullying.
Can you guess what happened to the kids that wore the shirts?
- Yes they got bullied more just like painting a target on their backs.
What did they expect?
Hard to believe these fools actually went to school at all.

If you feel so strongly about it and want to be a protector of your child then enrol then in some self-defence... Like Krav Maga.

Hi AC,

The morons who devised this idiotic initiative have forgotten that everybody, such as everybody on this thread, goes through ten or twelve or more years of schooling, mixing with all sorts of other kids, and - by the sound of it - most of us getting picked on at some time or other. Kids are nasty little beasts, they do that, especially to anybody who seems weaker.

Morons ? Too harsh ? I don't know: as you suggest,

"There's a local school I know of where they asked kids to wear a special coloured t-shirt to protest and say 'No' to bullying.
Can you guess what happened to the kids that wore the shirts?
- Yes they got bullied more just like painting a target on their backs.
What did they expect?
Hard to believe these fools actually went to school at all."

That had me cackling in advance of the punch line :) 'Well, DUH.'

The Trots have always been utterly out of touch with reality, so it's no surprise that one of them, in a typical brain fart, has momentarily devised this stupidity.

It's like being at a circus where every act, every trick, every bit of acrobatics, goes belly-up. Wouldn't be dead for quids !

God, I'm still cackling every time I re-read your comment, AC. So unbelievably dopey.

Joe

Lol!...nothing changes around here!

There's Armchair whatever telling us:

"Why should I care or have sympathy if some perverted 15year old boy wants to have sex with his male classmates."

Employing that logic, one assumes Armchair thinks if the young man was straight, he'd be wanting to have sex with his female classmates.

He continues to wax lyrical:

"I don't know what schools you guys went to but doing this IS AS MUCH ASKING FOR IT as anything."

Never mind, young man wasn't "doing" anything...or that again we have a poster using his own warped imagination to invent an MO for him...because Armchair invents then the young guy is "asking for it".

And Joe slaps him on the back for his puerile vacuous rant.

Hohoho!

The amazing thing is that many here who claim to be the victims of bullying in their youth....are the ones displaying the least empathy.

Just imagine!.... a round or two of merciless bullying in one's youth will turn all those kiddies into people just like them....how irksome.

Poirot:

So what is your excuse?

Hi Poirot,

I didn't say any of us liked getting bullied, just that we've probably all been through it. Perhaps you were home-schooled ?

You suggest that ".... Employing that logic, one assumes Armchair thinks if the young man was straight, he'd be wanting to have sex with his female classmates."

Well, yes. What's your point ?

I didn't deliberately slap AC on the back just for his puerile vacuous cant but more for his accurate anticipation of the outcomes of some unbelievably dopey brain fart of some Trot school principal.

Let's have a competition: who can suggest the stupidest slogan for a kid to wear on a T-shirt ? Here's some:

* I'm quite opposed to bullying

* I'm sick of being bullied

* Please stop bullying homosexuals

* Bullies are just using their superior strength over weaker kids

* Bullies are all homos anyway.

or a more Trot one:

* End Bullying NOW !

Yeah, that should make them think again.

Thanks anyway, Poirot,

Joe