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Skwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 09:50 PM Original message |
I wish Michelle Obama would take on school bullying. |
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firedupdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 09:57 PM Response to Original message |
1. Oh my, this makes me so sad. I have no words but I wish someone |
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SCRUBDASHRUB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 10:06 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. I was picked on pretty badly while growing up. All I ever heard was |
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firedupdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 10:10 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. It is. I was too and they won't stop. It's horrible. The reason I think |
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TuxedoKat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 08:26 AM Response to Reply #7 |
53. I can so relate |
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tabbycat31 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 07:04 PM Response to Reply #5 |
36. ditto |
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fortyfeetunder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 10:04 PM Response to Original message |
2. Send Michelle a letter to grant your wish! |
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firedupdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 10:05 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Good idea, I will write one as well. n/t |
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Pirate Smile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 10:06 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. That is exactly what I was going to say. +1 |
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Skwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 10:11 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. If she took up this cause, she could REALLY make a difference |
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960 (676 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 10:05 PM Response to Original message |
3. K&R. Sad story. Wonderful issue for the first lady to highlight! |
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mitchtv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 10:38 PM Response to Original message |
9. Heavens no! then she might have to bring up |
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tbyg52 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 11:04 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. Aint' it the truth. And I hope she would not flinch. I'm ever hopeful...... ;-> nt |
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HopeOverFear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 08:20 PM Response to Reply #12 |
40. No, actually, it' s not the truth. |
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Political Tiger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 10:49 AM Response to Reply #9 |
22. You think she would be reluctant to do that? n/t |
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mitchtv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 03:05 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. No evidence around that she would |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 03:16 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. Yes, that could make things awkward next time Rick Warren, Kirbyjon Caldwell, Donnie McClurkin, |
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phleshdef (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 07:48 AM Response to Reply #26 |
52. Those guys are likely against gay children being bullied. |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 06:58 PM Response to Reply #52 |
64. Bullshit. When I try to use the power of the state to deny those people |
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phleshdef (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 11:54 AM Response to Reply #64 |
81. You are just assuming that because someone is anti-gay marriage then they are pro-gay bullying... |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-08-09 09:27 AM Response to Reply #81 |
86. Who has repeatedly campaigned against anti-bullying laws? |
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bluedawg12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 07:34 PM Response to Reply #52 |
69. Denying human rights to a minority is part of the specturm of dehumanization |
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phleshdef (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 11:56 AM Response to Reply #69 |
82. I am, of course, against their anti-gay marriage stance. I am pro-gay marriage all the way... |
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FreeState (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 07:59 PM Response to Reply #52 |
71. You might want to read this: PROP 8 HURT MY FAMILY ASK ME HOW |
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endersdragon (6 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 06:28 PM Response to Reply #9 |
28. Okay as someone who is just getting out of college |
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mitchtv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 11:53 PM Response to Reply #28 |
47. some kids like Lawrence King, might challenge |
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roughsatori (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 07:28 PM Response to Reply #47 |
68. Hey Mitch, the moran (sic) has been tombstoned. NT |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 06:59 PM Response to Reply #28 |
65. Try being a fat queer. n/t |
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roughsatori (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 07:26 PM Response to Reply #28 |
67. Tombstoned before I had a chance to suggest you demand a refund from your "college." |
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SpiderMom (16 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 09:48 PM Response to Reply #28 |
76. Not sure I understand... |
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tbyg52 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 10:53 PM Response to Original message |
10. Yes. Too many adults just stand by and watch or |
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napoleon_in_rags (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 10:58 PM Response to Original message |
11. I don't think she can do anything. |
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genna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 11:05 PM Response to Original message |
13. Only if she connects it to the isolation and alienation other groups of people feel in this country |
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Skwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 05:40 AM Response to Reply #13 |
19. When Columbine happened I heard where were the |
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genna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 06:16 PM Response to Reply #19 |
83. Social isolation and alienation experienced by the shooters |
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tbyg52 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 11:06 PM Response to Original message |
14. Can we get a 4th and 5th for this? |
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empyreanisles (313 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 11:23 PM Response to Original message |
15. Thing about buliles is, for boys it needs to be rite of passage. |
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endersdragon (6 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 06:31 PM Response to Reply #15 |
29. One bully... ten bullies... quite a diffence |
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empyreanisles (313 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 08:07 PM Response to Reply #29 |
37. Yes, I can see this difference. |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 11:30 PM Response to Reply #37 |
46. I imagine I would get crippled or killed if I'd tried that in front of a group of them |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 08:45 AM Response to Reply #15 |
56. there is an entire constellation of options for young male "rites of passage" other than bullying |
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CaliforniaPeggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 11:26 PM Response to Original message |
16. Off to the Greatest Page... |
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ChazII (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 11:32 PM Response to Original message |
17. 5th K&R |
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fortyfeetunder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 02:47 AM Response to Original message |
18. I think this is worth a DU Activist activity! |
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Frank Booth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 10:25 AM Response to Original message |
20. How do you legislate bullying? |
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fortyfeetunder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 10:38 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Yes we can! Show there are consequences for bullying. |
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RollWithIt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 06:34 PM Response to Reply #21 |
30. Gees, I don't know, you can legislate it, but how do you police it? |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 08:28 PM Response to Reply #30 |
43. I'd be happy with a nice spike in detentions, suspensions and expulsions, personally |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 06:38 PM Response to Reply #21 |
33. OMG. I wish I read your post first. |
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fortyfeetunder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-05-09 05:07 PM Response to Reply #33 |
49. Thank you! |
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bmbmd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 11:53 AM Response to Reply #21 |
61. Also take a look at |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 06:37 PM Response to Reply #20 |
32. Legislation to an extent; people being proactive about SOCIETY also helps. |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 08:16 PM Response to Reply #20 |
39. How do you legislate harassment? Assault? Threats? Theft? |
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fortyfeetunder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 08:23 PM Response to Reply #39 |
42. I agree -- Demonstrate Equal Justice Under the Law. |
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LibDemAlways (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 11:04 AM Response to Reply #39 |
59. I frequently sub at a middle school where the dean routinely |
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Skwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 11:51 AM Response to Reply #20 |
80. It's really very easy. If you take public funds, you are required to have |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 11:39 AM Response to Original message |
23. Those bullied need to take on bullies |
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ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 12:09 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. I've found that's the best method, as well. Nothing shuts up a bully faster than a swift uppercut. |
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endersdragon (6 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 06:23 PM Response to Reply #24 |
27. As a former bullied student |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 06:45 PM Response to Reply #27 |
35. You are 100% spot-on. That is how they work and they will make their prey the instigator. |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 08:21 PM Response to Reply #27 |
41. It was similar in my own school's experience |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 06:42 PM Response to Reply #23 |
34. Until the lawsuits start rolling in (these days). Oh, a personal story... I did that once... |
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dsc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-05-09 06:48 AM Response to Reply #23 |
48. that just won't work |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 06:35 PM Response to Original message |
31. She can only do so much. What can the rest of us do to help her as well? |
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Catherine Vincent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 08:09 PM Original message |
I hope that kid that told the deceased to "go home and shoot himself" |
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Catherine Vincent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 08:09 PM Response to Original message |
38. I hope that kid that told the deceased to "go home and shoot himself" |
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mzteris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 08:28 PM Response to Original message |
44. Watch this video on Bullying - |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 08:29 PM Response to Original message |
45. Good thought, and definitely the right person for that job. |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-05-09 10:57 PM Response to Original message |
50. The last sentence in the ABC article nailed it: |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 07:11 AM Response to Original message |
51. Fifty posts to this thread, and we've heard the same old rants and scaped the same old goats |
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noamnety (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 08:36 AM Response to Reply #51 |
55. One thing that would help |
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TuxedoKat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 08:30 AM Response to Original message |
54. I wish she would too... |
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Skwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 10:24 AM Response to Reply #54 |
57. This is how we got the bullying to stop. |
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TuxedoKat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 06:54 PM Response to Reply #57 |
63. Actually our school is very pro-active |
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Skwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 11:45 AM Response to Reply #63 |
79. My kid did not know some of the kids that were bullying him. |
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renate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 07:17 PM Response to Reply #57 |
66. that's excellent |
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renate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 10:36 AM Response to Reply #54 |
58. how awful for both of you |
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TuxedoKat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 06:45 PM Response to Reply #58 |
62. Thanks |
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Aloha Spirit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 07:47 PM Response to Reply #62 |
70. Aw this is making me so sad! |
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TuxedoKat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 09:45 AM Response to Reply #70 |
78. Thanks |
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roughsatori (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 07:59 PM Response to Reply #54 |
72. My heart goes out to your daughter. My sister was bullied in 7th & 8th Grades. |
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TuxedoKat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 08:39 AM Response to Reply #72 |
77. I'm not |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 11:05 AM Response to Original message |
60. Oh, sure. |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 08:22 PM Response to Original message |
73. She'd be a marvelous and strong advocate, that's for sure. |
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invictus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 08:26 PM Response to Original message |
74. K&R |
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Colobo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 08:27 PM Response to Original message |
75. Bullies need to be punished for their actions. There needs to be laws to protect |
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politicasista (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 06:29 PM Response to Original message |
84. I like this idea |
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rocktivity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 09:36 PM Response to Original message |
85. Reminds me of the freshman who's let out of a locker in that "Callahan" commericial |
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