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Originally Posted by DrPhil
emergency room wedgie > suicide
I don't see how what you posted contrasts what they were saying regarding strength in any way (I don't agree with the use of "manning up" but I see their general point). The boy is strong with help from his family (the family shouldn't wait for HIS strength to be strong FOR him) and he will get past this painful wedgie. He couldn't get past suicide.
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Absolutely. But, from reading this thread, there are some who have IMO "blamed" the girl who hanged herself for not "manning up". Others have said, and not just in this thread but on other blogs and message boards, that the parents should have done more, but in some cases (like the article I posted and in NUMEROUS websites about bullying) the parents HAVE done everything, short of selling their house and moving to another city, to try to stop the bullying, by going to school administrators and teachers and advising them of the problems, to no avail.
This kid's school supposedly has a "zero tolerance policy" for bullying, but even after the parents had complained, nothing was done. It isn't until someone is actually hurt - as in the torn rectum (it may have been from a wedgie, but geesus, does belittling HOW he ended up having to have his bottom sewed back up somehow make it okay??) that something is done.
In this family's case they took it to the police and the kids were sentenced to "supervised counseling" Obviously, that's not much punishment. I bet those kids laughed out loud when that's what they were told their "punishment" was going to be.
From the article, the expert says:
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Dr. Wendy Middlemiss is an expert on bullying from the University of North Texas in Denton, she says if there's no punishment, there's no learning. "It's certainly not punishment there is nothing that would necessarily in the short run discourage a child from engaging in that type of behavior again."
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How is "supervised counseling" punishment to 16 year old boys?
