National Youth Rights Association

Kids are not allowed to defend themselves. The first problem is that kids are constantly taught to, "ignore it and just let a teacher know." Then the teacher confronts the bully who puts on an angel act. The kid who ratted him out gets subjected to even more ridicule and bullying for telling on him.

The second problem I will illustrate through a story I just heard from one of my lil cousins. His friend was getting bullied. Physically and verbally. He refused to tell any adults because of the reason I laid out above. So my cousin convinces him to fight back (we are a family of fighters lol). So sometime last week the bully starts his shit and my cousins friend goes right back at him. The bully gets physical and my cousins friend punches him. The physically bigger bully starts to beat my cousins friend, so my cousin jumps in and helps end the fight. Now my cousin, his friend, and the bully are all in trouble and all have to see a counselor.

Short version: Sticking up for yourself in schools gets you in trouble, just as if you were the perpetrator.

Obviously we should be trying to solve the underlying problems with bullies (home problems, self-esteem, etc.) but standing up for yourself almost always works. Believe me.

my solution. if youre going to get in trouble no matter what then quit being weak and fight back! worst case scenario you beat your ass beat but everyone will see that you will fight back if provoked even if you're sure to lose. school and prison are alike in the respect that the aggressors go for easy targets in most cases.

My sister told me about someone who got suspended for being in a headlock.

It doesn't surprise me that they'll go after the kid being bullied as much as the one doing the bullying. I was bullied a lot in school and always got in trouble for defending myself. The bullies were the popular kids who were on the sports teams, cheer leading or the parents were in the PTA. My parents weren't PTA and I wasn't involved in school activities, which, I think, made me the disfavored outsider.

Since the person being bullied is going to get in trouble anyway under the wonderful ZT rules, they might as well throw caution to the wind and punch the bully's lights out. That way, when they get back from their two-week vacation from prison, hopefully, the bully will have learned some respect for them.

PokerJoker811;407782 wrote: My school system's worse. If a person gets punched on my campus, and does NOTHING in response, and it gets back to the office, both bully and victim are punished. Looking at things from a historical perspective, this means my school would condemn Gandhi for being hit by the club.

That's why you need to make sure the bully ends up in the hospital. You get fucked regardless…may as well make sure he spends plenty of quality time with the physical therapy team after rebuilding two shattered kneecaps.

The only people who read the newspaper anymore are the people who condone bullying because "that's how it was in their day."

But someone needs to draw serious attention to the issue.

Personally, I'd go for the DDoS against the school network. It would definitely get the press's attention.

Also, most schools encourage or even force the students to have "school spirit", which is just a nicer way of saying "unconditional respect for sports players". This allows jocks to bully anyone they want.

robexib;407901 wrote:

Instead, peacefully talk to the administrators about the problem. Get enough students to do it, and they will do something.

Please. The school admins never act on bullying until someone comes in with a trenchcoat and even after that, they only vigorously enforce anti-bullying policies until the news media finds a different story. The schools get too much money and too many trophies from bullies to risk putting them on them on the bench because of a test they missed during a suspension.

I think the only real way this can be solved is for NYRA or some other similar organization to go to states and get them to fix this shit so situations like those above don't happen.

There are schools that do nothing about bullies or bulling, but send students to the office for having American Flags on their T-shirts.

I never got bullied in my school because I was very good at delivering verbal lashings in response. The area in which I lived was too high income for anyone to get physical, though. I think a fight occurred once during my whole public education, it was big news.