Not Before Coffee

Frankly, I have to say if a parent doesn’t believe in tough penalties or punishment they should keep their child O-U-T of public schools.

A few weeks ago a little twit in my son’s class spit in his teachers coffee cup.  The teacher didn’t find out until TWO days later!  The kid was suspended for a week?!?! – The kid should have been expelled or sent to the hill (juvenile corrections). 

That’s the most disgusting act I’ve heard of!  And had I been the teacher, I’d have likely lost my teaching license because of the retaliation I would have unleashed on that child.

In recent news – A New York state judge stands behind a school superintendent who suspended a student for giving a teacher “noogies” on two occasions when she allegedly asked him to stop.

Bravo Judge!  Hold the delinquents accountable!  Make’m learn early that there ARE tough consequences for bad actions even if mommy and daddy say there isn’t.

Lastly, I have a son who suffers from severe depression and low self esteem.  He has a lot of freckles and is no longer buying my story that they are angel kisses.  His antidepressants have caused him to gain a bit of weight to where he’s a little uncomfortable about his body.  While in class, a girl snuck up behind him and lifted his shirt up over his head.  Since then, kids have been making fun of him something terrible.

I believe what that girl did was sexual harassment.  Had that been my son doing that to the girl – he would have been sent straight to the hill, no questions asked.

Although I’m uncertain of what the penalty toward her might be – my son refuses to turn her in.  He claims everyone would tease him about being a nark and that would be worse then the teasing he’s getting now.

I’m trying to teach him that it’s his right and obligation, as a student in that school, to turn the girl in.  What she’s done is wrong and she needs to be punished accordingly or she’ll keep harassing kids and making others lives miserable.

Time For You To Sound Off:

Do you think there should be tougher penalties on kids who bully, tease and basically make other kids lives hell?

What about my son who is the victim of blatant sexual harassment?  Should urge him to report the girl or allow me to or is he right in wanting to let it go?