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In reply to the discussion: Mother reports school suggested teen get breast reduction surgery to stop bullies [View all]Bake
(21,977 posts)114. Let's see ... common sense, decency, etc.
Those should have told the counselor to STFU.
Nobody is saying malicious intent, just stupidity on the part of the school person.
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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