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Hey everyone I hope all's well in your world's. With the changing of the seasons I decided it makes sense to also change the background of my blog to something else to sort of liven things up maybe *shrugs* I'll be kicking around a few different backgrounds from time to time here and eventually stick to something solid that I like though of course its difficult with a blog like this one because its sort of an in depth look inside my head and sort of my thoughts on movies, music, the world around me. In ways I like to think of myself as a kind of George Carlin whom was the great comedian in my opinion but he also was someone that observed the world around him and commented on it as he saw things unfolding before his eyes.
I don't quite want to jump on the anti bullying bandwagon but at the same time I think its important to talk about this issue. Yes I have spoken about many things within the context of this because I literally feel it can help others and this one being one of those things. The old peer mediation let's sit down and talk this over kind of approach isn't quite working and just suspending a kid for beating up another kid! This kind of mentality is what is wrong with the system as it currently stands which I hope the new anti bullying law in Idaho that is currently being debated really seriously tackles. It doesn't matter to me what the kid is going through blah blah blah whose beating up someone else enough of that kind of psycho mumbo jumbo its not helping anyone and even more so today its leading to kids committing suicide etc because the system in place doesn't honestly protect them it protects the one bullying them.
What I hope the new Idaho law and what I hope similar laws in other states do is criminalize the bully; a real deterrence kind of like in a work place if you are harrasing someone you are fired now except in this case be able to bring the police in and charge that bully with assault because that's what it is at the end of the day its not the kid acting out and secondly or we have some judge like the one who passed those judgments making the kid wear a sandwich sign declaring their crime for everyone to see make these kids who are bullying other kids wear a sign for a few weeks even a month really bring them off of that high horse and show them how it feels to be picked on in that sense of it being displayed for everyone to see. This comes from someone that as a kid was picked on and the bullying only stopped when I stood up for myself against the bullies.
In this day and age where kid's seem to think nothing of bringing a gun to school and blowing a kid away or secondly a knife I realize that encouraging kids to stand up for themselves is not the answer here at a younger age we need to step in there and say enough is enough cut this in half. Because I know not every kid is the same and many wouldn't stand up for themselves they'd take it that extra step way too far in the other direction. Back in the day when I stood up to those bullying me I hit them etc but that doesn't seem to enter these kids minds secondly let's stop the punishment for a kid whose being bullied for standing up for themselves ie defending themselves though as I said enough let's do this responsibly.
All in all its a complicated situation though I think we can really put a dent in the situation and cut bullying directly in half. Now with that all being said I am off for now i'll catch ya on the flip side
ps: Check out the movie The Sitter its a great flick and i'd give it a solid 5 out of 5
Hey everyone I hope all's well in your world's. With the changing of the seasons I decided it makes sense to also change the background of my blog to something else to sort of liven things up maybe *shrugs* I'll be kicking around a few different backgrounds from time to time here and eventually stick to something solid that I like though of course its difficult with a blog like this one because its sort of an in depth look inside my head and sort of my thoughts on movies, music, the world around me. In ways I like to think of myself as a kind of George Carlin whom was the great comedian in my opinion but he also was someone that observed the world around him and commented on it as he saw things unfolding before his eyes.
I don't quite want to jump on the anti bullying bandwagon but at the same time I think its important to talk about this issue. Yes I have spoken about many things within the context of this because I literally feel it can help others and this one being one of those things. The old peer mediation let's sit down and talk this over kind of approach isn't quite working and just suspending a kid for beating up another kid! This kind of mentality is what is wrong with the system as it currently stands which I hope the new anti bullying law in Idaho that is currently being debated really seriously tackles. It doesn't matter to me what the kid is going through blah blah blah whose beating up someone else enough of that kind of psycho mumbo jumbo its not helping anyone and even more so today its leading to kids committing suicide etc because the system in place doesn't honestly protect them it protects the one bullying them.
What I hope the new Idaho law and what I hope similar laws in other states do is criminalize the bully; a real deterrence kind of like in a work place if you are harrasing someone you are fired now except in this case be able to bring the police in and charge that bully with assault because that's what it is at the end of the day its not the kid acting out and secondly or we have some judge like the one who passed those judgments making the kid wear a sandwich sign declaring their crime for everyone to see make these kids who are bullying other kids wear a sign for a few weeks even a month really bring them off of that high horse and show them how it feels to be picked on in that sense of it being displayed for everyone to see. This comes from someone that as a kid was picked on and the bullying only stopped when I stood up for myself against the bullies.
In this day and age where kid's seem to think nothing of bringing a gun to school and blowing a kid away or secondly a knife I realize that encouraging kids to stand up for themselves is not the answer here at a younger age we need to step in there and say enough is enough cut this in half. Because I know not every kid is the same and many wouldn't stand up for themselves they'd take it that extra step way too far in the other direction. Back in the day when I stood up to those bullying me I hit them etc but that doesn't seem to enter these kids minds secondly let's stop the punishment for a kid whose being bullied for standing up for themselves ie defending themselves though as I said enough let's do this responsibly.
All in all its a complicated situation though I think we can really put a dent in the situation and cut bullying directly in half. Now with that all being said I am off for now i'll catch ya on the flip side
ps: Check out the movie The Sitter its a great flick and i'd give it a solid 5 out of 5
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