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The Solution for Bullying

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Huey Newton

The Solution for Bullying

I could have written a long diatribe, but I didn't. Two reasons…

One: I don't have time for that right now.

Two: the solution to the problem is not that difficult.

Folks have been bullied since the dawn of folks being here on planet earth. Alpha what?
Recently the phenomenon has taken a turn where the folks that are bullied are actually killing themselves. Killing themselves? This is something new.

I am specifically speaking regarding our young people. The old folks need to know better.

I'm not that old, but at the same time I don't remember a time in history when there have been so many young folks killing themselves because of being harassed and called names.

Stalked on Facebook, harassed on MySpace, exploited on YouTube, and decimated via Text Messaging. Suicide? That's a solution? I don't think so. We shouldn't play that.
If I go down, I go down swinging. Anyone who has salt in their shoes knows that. Some just don't have it and that is what's missing.

Don't raise your kid to be a punk (no diss to the Sex Pistols, Plasmatics or Iggy Pop) and more than likely they will make it.

Put their hand in God's hand. If parent doesn't do that, then they haven't done the most basic part of parenting.

What's missing, you ask?

A sense of entitlement and belonging. An undeniable knowing that we are here, on PURPOSE, in this universe and on this planet.

That is what is NOT being taught to our young people. That is why they feel it is okay and acceptable to kill themselves rather than deal with the harsh realities of life.

Fight. Swing. Knock the adversary to the ground and stomp 'en under your feet. Do it in the physical if necessary, but without question in the spiritual. ABC's.

That is exactly what we need to teach our young people. They need to swing on the physical, swing on the emotional, and swing on the spiritual. Swing and stay in the game. Swing and live.

If folks don't realize that life itself is a fight, they should not wonder or be surprised when why they find themselves beat up or dead.

Short and sweet. Momma said "knock you out!"

Thank you for reading.

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The Cypress Gang

7 months ago: It starts early. Try having a young one in school that has some physical limitations. Then try being called to the school for a conference and the school asking you to approve a physiological evaluation of your child. Then see what the school does when your child shows up wearing medical devices. They can't burn the request in the file.

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Huey Newton

7 months ago: TCG - You are a good dad. Imagine what the kids go through who don't have a strong man like you around.

The system teaches our young folks to be victims and statistics.

It will allow them to be "bullied to death" while telling them not to fight back. It's really no wonder that we have a new phenomenon of our young people going to school with loaded weapons to blow away as many of their class mates as possible and then even kill themselves.

"Life is not sacred. There is no God." Those two lies have given us the mess we have today.

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Truthbrary

7 months ago: Good Post Huey,

I think Bullying really starts with the teachers... what they approve and disapprove... a wink is as good as a nod when push comes to shove... if it wasn't for the entertainment it provided for some "teachers" I wouldn't have been bullied nor would I have been allowed to bully others. The problem now is that the teachers don't have the authority they once had... and now have the overwhelming job of crowd-control.

IF teachers could enforce fair treatment, and they themselves be held to the same standard, then there would be more respect given to their office.

I had a teacher put me in a choke hold (in my bullying days)... it was effective! I still respect him to this day. He did it privately, and he communicated the chain of command! I think sometimes the "rules" need to be enforced with what works... passive patronising doesn't work on bullies... but there are some things they understand... respectful force is one such thing.

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The Cypress Gang

7 months ago: Yeah well. I wouldn't go that far. Anyhoo. The school wanted to evauluate our Son. They must have seen something. Like him reacting to being made fun of....

He is very large and strong for his age. I'm sure they wanted to make sure he didn't snap mentally and physically break a few bones of the other students.

Our question to them was... are you going to evaluate those other students? You know. The Bullies.

Never got an answer.

What makes it worst for them is he is considered a "Special Needs" kid by the district as he was accepted into the PPCD program well before kindergaten. That acceptance follows him until the age of 18 in the school district.

http://www.cfisd.net/dept2/curricu/spece...

You would think they might do some digging into their own files.

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Altruist
Eugene, OR

7 months ago: The main problem is that there is considerable social pressure to "fit In". Students learn (from the media and from our politicians) that one way to look "Smart" is by denigrating another. Gay kids are easy marks and they generally do not do well with protecting themselves.

I do think it would be a good idea for schools to give martial arts training to any kids suspected of being bullied. Martial arts are wonderful for building a sense of self confidence and paradoxically results in nonaggression. I would suggest Aikido since it is the least aggressive but is very effective.

The real solution to bullying is to replace competition with cooperation in schools. If we had team learning where a team of 4-5 students were given assignments and then they all shared the same grade, the kids would learn that everyone has strengths and weaknesses. Students learn better from other students than from teachers. If the teams were constructed so they all had a balance of "slow" and "advanced" students it would be in the best interests of the advanced students to teach the slow students. When kids learn how to help others they wouldn't bully them.

Teams work well in industry, why not train students to work in a more efficient manner?

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Huey Newton

7 months ago: Al - I like your response.

As far as eliminating competition however, that would be majorly counter productive. Kids need team sports and Honor Rolls. Anyone who develops a sense of self esteem will do that through measurable achievement and positive affirmation.

Sports, when approached properly, teaches team work and cooperation. Also, Honor Rolls are scalable and give the students benchmarks not just to compete against other students, but to compete against themselves.

No matter where we are in life, there will always be those who are jealous or insecure. It takes guts and a powerful sense of self-worth to be able to overcome when these folks attempt to make target of us.

Young people need to be empowered. They have been sold a bill of goods telling them that life is an accident and that they have no eternal value. They are programmed to see life as being cheap and that they can be expected to lack self-control.

They need to be taught that they are not animals, that they CAN control themselves, and that they have a destiny and a purpose to fulfill in this life.

There are folks out there that believe our kids should not protect themselves. That that is not a valid option. That sets the stage for them being taken advantage of.

Parents need to wake up. They are throwing their young people away and then have the nerve to cry over the milk that they themselves have helped to spill.

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