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Article Young Boy Punished After Standing up to his Bully

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When this young boy was fed up with his bully and finally fought back, he was the one that copped the punishment.

An Imgur user called wolverineprostateexams recently posted a story of his younger cousin (gr 10) who had been tormented by a school bully for months, until finally, he decided to stand up for himself.

After being provoked and pushed around one too many times, he ultimately chose to protect himself.

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“My young cousin (started 10th grade this year) received a three day suspension for fighting on school grounds. Doesn’t matter that the other kid has a history of bullying. Doesn’t matter that it has been documented that he has been bullying my cousin since the school year started. Last Friday was the final straw. Bully was blocking my cousin from getting on the bus. There is a video of my cousin repeatedly telling bully to move. Bully then pushed my cousin with enough force he trips. As my cousin tries to get up bully kicks my cousin in the stomach and punches him in the face when he tries to get up again. That was the last of it.

My cousin rushed his bully and proceeded to beat the living crap out of him. SRO pulled my cousin off the bully and both are brought to the principle. Parents are called. According to my uncle the other kids parents are demanding my cousin be expelled, even after seeing the video of my cousin being kicked and punched on the ground. My uncle compared them to Harry Potter’s aunt and uncle. Principle announces both students will receive a three day suspension. My uncle makes it clear he will not be punishing my cousin and the three days will be leisure days. This pisses of the bullies parents even more. They tell my uncle if my cousin goes near their son again they will sue him. My uncle tells them if their son goes after my cousin he’ll just get his ass kicked again and to leave them alone. ” via imgur

The school has a zero-tolerance response and proceeded to give both the bully, and his victim, the same punishment for fighting: A three-day suspension.

The victim’s family certainly weren’t about to punish their son though.

“My uncle makes it clear he will not be punishing my cousin and the three days will be leisure days,” he wrote on Imgur.

He added, “He defended himself and I’m proud of him.”

Do you think both students should have been punished?

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  • I have heard a lot of stories of bullying and my daughter was the target of a bully also. In all cases the bullying only stopped when the child being bullied fought back. Reporting to the school does nothing and in some cases they make the victim feel worse. I think authorities should re-think how to handle bullies. In the meantime I see nothing wrong with self-defence.

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  • No I don’t think both students should get the same punishment I do agree with the parents of the child that’s has been bullied I have always told my kids to stick up for themselves and I will deal with the consequences but don’t ever be the bully. The school should have nipped this in the but before it got out of control and already had the bully on notice very wrong

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  • I would love to be able to comment on this and be spectacularly funny or even sarcastic, but I can’t. We as grown ups are failing children who are bullied and failing them repeatedly. This bully had been reported but is then not treated any differently to the child who decided that they had had enough. How could any parent have confidence in this school when they cannot seem to make the distinction between these two kids? There was video, it could be seen so I just don’t understand. Are we all being bullied, is every adult afraid to stand up for what is right? What the hell is going on. If that child who was bullied looks at the outcome and sees that the grown ups couldn’t do the right thing, where will that leave them, what must they think of the world. I applaud his parent for standing up to them, but he won’t be surrounded by them at school every day……only the weak school officials will be there….how sad and worrying is that.

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  • The bully has a history, and we don’t know what was done by the school about bullying.
    I remember a friend who was frequently suspended, both in-school and off-school premise suspension before finally being expelled. What I also noticed is he was bullied by everyone. The “popular” kids, the “not so popular” kids and his “friends”. He was also bullied by my friends despite my efforts to get them to stop. None of these bullies were punished, why because they didn’t get caught. I don’t know where my friend is now and if he turned his life around. I did see him a few years later, and initial impressions suggested things did not get better.
    I hope this kid gets the support he needs to realise he is stronger than his bullies and succeed in what ever he wants to do.

    • I will guarantee the school will do nothing – like a lot of schools. I am surprised the victim’s parents didn’t have the bully charged with an offence. It has gotten out of hand and think now that they parents have to be involved. From the first instance a note short be sent to the parents (always keep a copy) – if the offence continues keep sending notes home (again keeping copies) so if it gets to a stage where bot sets of parents are invovled then the school can see well we did notify the parents and they ignored our notes. At least the victim’s parents will see that the school tried and the parents of the bully failed to act.

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  • What I wonder is why the school didn’t do anything against “the bully” even if it was documented that this child bullied the author’s cousin since school started. I see a lot of fault in the school for not protecting students that are bullied.

    • Some schools seem to handle cases of bullying better than others for sure.

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