Bullying the Bullies

Every 7 seconds a child is bullied, only 4% of the time an adult witness will intervene, 11% of the time a fellow peer will intervene, the remaining 85% of the time a child is bullied NO ONE will stop it. 56% of children (the bullied children's fellow peers) personally witness bullying. On an ordinary school day 160,000 kids miss school because of their fear of being bullying. 1 out of every 4 children is bullied. 77% of school children are have experienced bullying. 282,000 school children are physically attacked each month. 1 in 5 children are bullies.

According to one poll, American schools harbor 2.1 million bullies and 2.7 million of their victims. In a few years I am going to walk my son down a long scary hallway to an even scarier classroom. As we walk I will clutch his sweet, sensitive, innocent, naive, unique little hand with a terrified grasp. As he goes to open the door he will look me in eyes, excited but nervous. Knowing what lies beyond that door I will have to hide my own fear and anxiety. After all this will a big day for him. Eventually the door will be open and I will come face to face with the children that may or may not beat him up in the bathroom, or make him cry when he gets home, or call him demeaning hurtful names. Depending on the size of the classroom, 4 to 6 of the children sitting beyond that dreaded door could end up being my son's real life monster, they could be my son's personal bully.

And just what am I suppose to do? What can I do? How can I knowingly send my son off to this violent institution? How am I supposed to just make my son meet his monster? Me being the type of person I am I will punch a kid the face. I don't know care. I won't even hesitate! I will go to jail for my son if it means he never has to experience the turmoil of being bullied, but first I will ask for the sake of my future bully and all kids who are bullied, lets teach our children tolerance and acceptance. We are as adults, not just parents, but all adults are the cause of this bullying however directly or indirectly. They learn from us. We teach them to abuse each other. We teach them to reject what is different and misunderstood. I am not asking anyone to give up their personal intolerances based on gender, race, disability, physical features and appearances (that are not race), sexual orientation and preference, social status, economic status, etc.. I am asking that we do not express our person discriminations in front of our children. Especially take notice to the words we use around them, such as fag, retard, spick, fat (insert word here), white trash, etc. We often don't realize that it is our words that do the most damage, and are responsible for most of the violence going on in our children's schools.

Please, I don't particularly like punching children in the face.