Bullied Kid Got Suspended for Fighting Back

Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra · 03-21-2011, 08:18 AM

Beautiful video.

khfreek · 03-21-2011, 08:25 AM

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Originally Posted by crash_override

I fought a lot when I was his age. Schools are so paranoid about fallout from situations like this that they like to punish anyone and anyone involved to make an example. Fact is, if they looked at it on a case by case basis, they might actually be able to see that this kid had no other choice. But that would involve them actually doing their job and sticking up for one of their students, I don't see that happening, ever.

great post

s_k · 03-21-2011, 08:30 AM

The fat kid is so right about what he did.
Go kid! You did great.

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I never fought back and I'm proud of it somehow.
I now see all these bullies fail in their lives even harder than I do.
And I smile a very mean smile

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Mojo · 03-21-2011, 09:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by crash_override

I fought a lot when I was his age. Schools are so paranoid about fallout from situations like this that they like to punish anyone and anyone involved to make an example. Fact is, if they looked at it on a case by case basis, they might actually be able to see that this kid had no other choice. But that would involve them actually doing their job and sticking up for one of their students, I don't see that happening, ever.

I think you're right. Punish everyone involved regardless. Whether one kid was defending himself against an aggressor or not, it doesn't really seem to matter. If anything, I would say that teachwers often get it wrong when discplining kids in these kinds of situations.

When I was in school and about 16 years old, there was one handicapped guy who had also attended my primary school and one guy a year or two below me who used to score points with his friends by bullying him or shoving him around, and obviously he would never defend himself. I saw him doing it one day and shoved him against a wall, infront of all of his friends, and had a quiet word with him and personally never saw him do it again.

However, whos really gonna end up in more trouble if a teacher sees me do that? We would either both get the same punishment or, more likely, I'd get done for that just for doing something that I didnt see them doing, which was trying to help this kid out.

~~Dirty~~ · 03-21-2011, 10:43 AM

Being a daily lurker of Deadspin for the past 3 years and also a weekly lurker of the internet village of losers called /b/, obviously I have seen this video no less than 3 trillion times already so no need to click the link for me. That was pretty awesome though, I'm glad that dude finally snapped and did something about it. That little punk is seriously lucky his legs didn't snap in half or get a serious concussion. Casey is a boss, period.

I wish I had some courageous anti-bullying story but I don't. I was like the cool jock guy so I never got picked on. Actually the only kids I really remember bullying others were these short scrawny kids who got off on picking on the few kids smaller and scrawnier than them. It was like losers with no future picking on the only people that were possibly bigger losers with less of a future. I think it's weird how the kid in the video is picking on someone like 4 years older and 100 pounds heavier lol.

Also, solid post crashoverride. School and teachers are as much to blame as about anybody for bullying and stuff. After all, it's happening in the school. But as always, they have no idea what they are doing in terms of suspensions or punishments. Man now I'm just thinking of my old vice principal. I hated that guy. He was a former college football player so he was huge and massive and though he owned the planet. And was just so douchey and even had the greasy slicked back hair.

Burning Down · 03-21-2011, 11:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by crash_override

I fought a lot when I was his age. Schools are so paranoid about fallout from situations like this that they like to punish anyone and anyone involved to make an example. Fact is, if they looked at it on a case by case basis, they might actually be able to see that this kid had no other choice. But that would involve them actually doing their job and sticking up for one of their students, I don't see that happening, ever.

Exactly. A lot of schools see themselves as a sort of business and that there can't be any hints of favouritism, which is how defending a student, no matter what the situation, would be seen.

Here, there's a problem with guns and other weapons in high schools (mostly schools that are located in poorer or more gang-ridden neighbourhoods), and there are zero-tolerance policies at those schools towards bringing weapons onto school property, but the schools themselves are doing jack-shit to enforce those rules. Instead, they punish everyone who MIGHT have come into contact with a weapon at school.

I'm from a more well-off neighbourhood in Toronto so I never had to deal with weapons in high school, but I did have problems with fighting a few times and was punished for it, rightly so. I don't blame this kid for standing up for himself. He did the right thing.

crukster · 03-21-2011, 06:30 PM

Back at school I got put in isolation for beating up a kid that threw a bottle at me, he was on crutches but..meh he was one of those nobs that didnt actually need crutches. He got suspended or isolated as well, I know he got worse punsihment than me though. I think they thought it was racially motivated against me lol.

This is crazy though, I saw that video. Well done to the fat kid, it was ****in awesome what he did man. He shouldn't get in trouble for it, he's sticking up for himself. That's life - you've gotta fight your own battles. And here they are punishing that and encouraging the whole "grit your teeth and take it" approach. That's lame.

Alfred · 03-21-2011, 06:43 PM

I got picked on a bit for my first year or two at my grade school mainly by a select couple of kids, but I experience it rarely, if at all in high school.

djchameleon · 03-21-2011, 07:29 PM

I befriended most of the bullies in my school so that I could use them as protection. When some new bully moved to our school during the year and tried to pull some **** with me I would just get my bully friends to handle it.

Of course, in turn for this "protection" I let them cheat off my tests.

EvilChuck · 03-21-2011, 07:39 PM

I got teased in secondary school for the first year or so, from about the ages of 11 to 13ish. Then it just seemed to stop, maybe to do with me being one of the first to have a growth spurt and towering over almost everyone in my year. By the time they caught up with me, they'd moved on.

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~~Dirty~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: USA Posts: 981	Being a daily lurker of Deadspin for the past 3 years and also a weekly lurker of the internet village of losers called /b/, obviously I have seen this video no less than 3 trillion times already so no need to click the link for me. That was pretty awesome though, I'm glad that dude finally snapped and did something about it. That little punk is seriously lucky his legs didn't snap in half or get a serious concussion. Casey is a boss, period. I wish I had some courageous anti-bullying story but I don't. I was like the cool jock guy so I never got picked on. Actually the only kids I really remember bullying others were these short scrawny kids who got off on picking on the few kids smaller and scrawnier than them. It was like losers with no future picking on the only people that were possibly bigger losers with less of a future. I think it's weird how the kid in the video is picking on someone like 4 years older and 100 pounds heavier lol. Also, solid post crashoverride. School and teachers are as much to blame as about anybody for bullying and stuff. After all, it's happening in the school. But as always, they have no idea what they are doing in terms of suspensions or punishments. Man now I'm just thinking of my old vice principal. I hated that guy. He was a former college football player so he was huge and massive and though he owned the planet. And was just so douchey and even had the greasy slicked back hair.

03-21-2011, 06:30 PM	#17 (permalink)
crukster Music Addict Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 181	Back at school I got put in isolation for beating up a kid that threw a bottle at me, he was on crutches but..meh he was one of those nobs that didnt actually need crutches. He got suspended or isolated as well, I know he got worse punsihment than me though. I think they thought it was racially motivated against me lol. This is crazy though, I saw that video. Well done to the fat kid, it was ****in awesome what he did man. He shouldn't get in trouble for it, he's sticking up for himself. That's life - you've gotta fight your own battles. And here they are punishing that and encouraging the whole "grit your teeth and take it" approach. That's lame.

03-21-2011, 07:39 PM	#20 (permalink)
EvilChuck #based Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: (Near) London, England Posts: 443	I got teased in secondary school for the first year or so, from about the ages of 11 to 13ish. Then it just seemed to stop, maybe to do with me being one of the first to have a growth spurt and towering over almost everyone in my year. By the time they caught up with me, they'd moved on.