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In reply to the discussion: Mother reports school suggested teen get breast reduction surgery to stop bullies [View all]randome
(34,845 posts)93. Why are you arguing with me? I agree that's best.
My question was how do you MAKE it stop? There have been a few suggestions in this thread. Keeping teachers where they can monitor the students better. Expulsion for any incident of bullying. It took a while for some common-sense suggestions to appear.
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Mother reports school suggested teen get breast reduction surgery to stop bullies [View all]
TalkingDog
Jan 2013
OP
Were these guys or girls teasing her about them? Article doesn't say. nt
OneTenthofOnePercent
Jan 2013
#1
It doesn't, really. I'm just interested in more information on the matter. nt
OneTenthofOnePercent
Jan 2013
#6
The point is that to suggest a child get SURGERY in order to stop bullies is victim-blaming
Chorophyll
Jan 2013
#11
I'm saying that if the school employee is not a surgeon, how would he/she know...
randome
Jan 2013
#32
can we agree that the solution to other people's behavior is not surgery on the victim?
CreekDog
Jan 2013
#84
Do you know there are ex-patriots who live around the world who are US citizens?
davidpdx
Jan 2013
#53
What if the person had a serious birth defect that could be easily remedied by surgery
Bandit
Jan 2013
#75
What if it were a boy and the school told him he had to get a circumcision to stop bullying?
Squinch
Jan 2013
#126
How else? Punish the bully. Up to and through suspension and expulsion if it doesn't stop.
morningfog
Jan 2013
#58
Agree. But like Recursion pointed out, that requires the teachers to be out and monitoring the kids.
randome
Jan 2013
#61
Exactly. It's the teachers' and staffers' jobs to be watching the kids and stopping bullying.
backscatter712
Jan 2013
#73
Expecting practical advice from a switchboard operator is probably not for the best, either.
randome
Jan 2013
#94
And your ethically-parallel solution to bullying students because they're gay would be...?
LanternWaste
Jan 2013
#111
Speaking from my own personal experience, even surgery won't stop the bullying.
backscatter712
Jan 2013
#90
No one 'demanded' a thing. It was a ridiculous suggestion so it should simply be dismissed.
randome
Jan 2013
#33
I suppose it depends on whether one sees the comment as 'inappropriate' or 'ignorant'.
randome
Jan 2013
#69
That actually happened to a classmate of mine in the early 1970's. Although she was also having back
catbyte
Jan 2013
#52
The school staffperson probably meant well but said something stupid.
knitter4democracy
Jan 2013
#64
If only those kids were as non-cliquish and judgemental as the posters here... right?
Demo_Chris
Jan 2013
#74
Do tell, even if you must do it in Meta, which of us in this thread are cliquish and judgmental.
Heidi
Jan 2013
#95
I have had breast reduction surgery for the same reasons that you mentioned.
smirkymonkey
Jan 2013
#120