stanc Wrote:I haven't been in a high school classroom for well over 50 years. What "victim mentality" are they teaching these days?
When I was in high school, I was bullied a few times until I got sick of it and bloodied the kids face right on the inside stairs of our school. There was blood all over the lockers and floor. A teacher asked me the next day what happened and I told him. He smiled and said he would take care of it. I heard nothing more of it. We were aloud to take care of our problems and the teachers knew who the trouble makers were. Grade school was no different. The same thing happened to me on the school bus with the blood flying. The next day our principle asked me what happened and I told him. He stated it was my third fight on the bus and if it happened one more time I would be kicked off the bus. When he turned to leave, he smiled at me as if to say, "I have to do my job but you did yours" LOL. Being a tattletale was considered to be weak and no one ever considered it. If an unfair fight occurred, the older students themselves would educate the unfair bully. I, "as all of my friends were taught" not to go crying to our parents and school faculty. I grew up with loggers, miners and ranchers. We were taught right from wrong and were expected to stand tall even if we were scared sh@tless. Today, I would have been expelled or worse arrested and sued. Kids are punished for giving the smallest slights and the victim is expected to cry for help if some one is mean to them, sickening. I feel sorry for today's youth.
stanc Wrote:LOL. When I was "a youth of long ago," I was never taught how to deal with rejection, bullying, or failure, either. It didn't cause me to want to go on a shooting rampage.Come on Stan, you had to of had the rules of the school yard? If you were bullied, failed or rejected, who would listen to you complain? You would just deal with it LOL. Life is no different.
The youth of today are given confusing, and idiotic messages that has nothing to do with the real world. With no stable home or community to learn from, many don't have a chance.