With the battle to eliminate “math” and “grades” behind them…
On Wednesday, Campeau — along with [Saskatchewan] Education minister Don Morgan — released the report which included a number of recommendations that the province plans to implement. Changes to education policy will supposedly make for a more consistent reaction from teachers when it comes to bullying. They also plan to “support” students in improving online behaviour and consult with them to build better bullying solutions.
But perhaps the most tangible recommendation is to build an “online tool” that allows students to report bullying online anonymously.
What could possibly go wrong?
The relentless “anti-bullying” drumbeat of the industrial media complex is no spontaneous development. Somewhere out there, PR firms have been hired to make it happen.
The best solution to school bullying is to have the kids educated at home through online classes. This will also eliminate the need for so much expensive infrastructure and the numbers of teachers and administrative staff that cost us so much.
No surprise the AGW/CC movement is run by PR firms, professional liars by any other name. Disinformation is their game.
The best solution to school bullying is a Glasgow Kiss.
I dealt with my son being bullied at school a few years ago. I informed the principal I was going to teach him how to physically defend himself. The man was still sputtering when I walked away.
My son is now able to put me on the ground. I’m proud of him.
“”There are many theories about how to teach mathematics adequately, ”
There are many different theories about how to start my car in the morning. Only one of them works.
No, the best solution is to let kids fight it out, just like they do with pro hockey players.
And to teach the delicate martial arts and strategy on when exactly to take the cowardly bully out.
Part of growing up.
Part of the game.
Anti-bullying of course is just the latest control fad.
As for math, amazing it lasted as long as it did in the public school system.
It would be difficult to rear a generation of docile sheeple who had strong math skills.
It would be readily ascertained that things don’t add up.
Donna LaFramboise is too polite when referring to PR firms as ‘hacks’. They are whores, pure and simple. My apologies to prostitutes everywhere.
Speaking of PR firms, Trayvon Martin’s parents hired one and now are part of the racial grievance industry.
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Shades of Stalinism.
Teaching a kid how to fight is essential. I actually was not taught;
it was expected, and me and my buddies worked it out |8-) among
ourselves. I think I am too old for martial arts but if I were 30
years younger it would be a priority.
Our kids don’t need maths, for their future jobs as valets and maids
to our coming Chinese overlords.
This entire subject, as well as Obamacare, the dumbing down of students and damn near everything else that makes our blood boil is covered in this movie, which was reposted a couple of days ago:
http://vimeo.com/63749370
Agree or disagree but WATCH it.
My grandkids are mixed race. One day my 8 year old grandson came home and told his mother that some kid at school called him a Chink. She asked whether or not he told the Principal.
He said he didn’t, he just “kicked the crap out of him”.
Next day the kid is hauled into the Principal’s office along with Mom. The Principal is ragging on about bullying etc and is ready to give the kid a three day vacation. Mom ( my daughter) perks up and says if she does that, she’s going to be in a world of hurt for being a racist! Principal asks why. Mom tells her because the other brat called him a Chink. Immediate attitude adjustment ensued. Mom left the Principal’s office, leaving a babbling apologetic bureaucrat still spewing her apologies.
I don’t condone bringing race into anything but in this case the Principal deserved everything she got.
I see a constant agenda towards “pussifying”(Hmmmm…I should ask Rob Ford if that is a real word)males in our schools, controlled by female dominated teacher’s unions.
No competition, no failing, no challenging viewpoints(you know, like here)…hell, now you can’t even rough-house in the playground at recess in some districts, someone might get a bruise.
Where are our leaders, action-takers and free-thinkers of the future to come from?
As per bullying, times have changed since most of us here went to school. You used to be able to trust parents to discipline their kids, now the parents are as likely to defend their little angels against any fallout from their cruel actions than help the school or victim solve the problem.
“As per bullying, times have changed since most of us here went to school. You used to be able to trust parents to discipline their kids, now the parents are as likely to defend their little angels against any fallout from their cruel actions than help the school or victim solve the problem.”
Absolutely,CO! But if someone will mention my solution, it might defang the PC teachers and administrations that have foisted this situation on us.
Nothing scares the hell out of tenured,unionized employees like the thought of losing their cushy jobs.
I taught my kids to fight back,and though it worked for a while, they spent many days at home on suspension,when the bully they fought back against was better connected,ie.the child of a local politician or teacher.
Timely article from the National Review
“A new study recently published in the Journal of Criminology suggests that the anti-bullying programs that have become popular in many schools may not be as useful as previously thought. The authors examined 7000 kids at 195 different schools to try to determine child and school influences on bullying. Surprisingly, the authors found that children who attended schools with anti-bullying programs were more likely to experience bullying than children who attended schools without such programs”
http://www.nationalreview.com/home-front/364072/do-we-need-anti-bullying-programs-colette-moran
That was our view when our son was suspended from school for three days in grade 8 or 9 for fighting. My husband said to our son, “Well, did you win?” He told our kid to arrange the match outside of the school ground and to settle it. All went well after that. Our son has grown up to be easy going and a fine individual, but not a push over.
Sadly true.
My son, an introverted and brilliant boy who did not quite fit in, was bullied throughout school until one event changed it all. In grade 6 the bully (who was the teacher’s favourite, which led to her ignoring the problem) decided to blind-side body-check my son into his open locker then saunter away. My son picked himself up and reacted by throwing what was in his hand (his lock), beaning the bully in the back of the head.
Both boys were given a one day suspension. In the meeting with the principal and counselors, I told my son that he would have to take his lumps and serve the suspension, but that he did the absolute right thing and there would no further home punishment. The administrators jaws nearly hit the floor. But of course that bully stayed away from him after that and my son learned that the adults in the school were full of crap and he had to take care of himself.
What became of my son? He continued to keep to himself and work his butt off, graduated high school way ahead of schedule and is now a 17 year old 3rd year University student.
I’d a thousand times trust a prostitute before I’d trust a PR professional. With the former, if they are trying to fool you, it’s likely for their own gain. With the latter, they certainly are trying to fool you, and you have to see through an extra layer of deception because they are trying to fool you in pursuit of advantage for someone else, and may themselves know or care what or whose advantage that is.
JTH, if you remove the word “surprisingly”, your comments are reasonable.
The “anti-bullying” campaign sets children up as too trusting of adults.
One of the things in living in a Christian nation, which once we were,
was the moral code (inherited from Judaism) which said, in essence,
“leave kids alone sexually”. In classical Greece and Rome, all too many
boys were sex toys for their elders. What happened to little girls is
not so clear. Under Islam, the legal age for girls to marry is 9 years,
following the example of the Prophet (pbuh); and at least in some
Islamic cultures little boys fare no better than they did in classical
times.
We are headed in this direction. Much of modern “liberalism” is
sex-driven, and that is why school teaching is intended to keep
the kids ignorant and trusting.
Off topic, but I want to point out that having tutored math in both adolescents and adults, that there absolutely are different ways to teach math effectively. Schools cater primarily to visual learners, with aural learners usually being able to keep up as long as there’s a hefty lecture component. Kinesthetic learners are basically screwed, and I’ve had a lot of success tutoring kinesthetic learners by teaching them how an abacus works. Kinesthetic learners generally are going to have to work much, much harder to grasp abstract math, but they can pick up basic numeracy skills a lot faster if they’re given it in a way that’s natural to them.
The anti-bullying campaign is simply indoctrination into the victim mentality. It forms a mindset that everyone is a victim and powerless to help themselves. This leads them right into the hands of big-daddy government.
Back in the day, had a child who was the target for a bully and his sycophantic girls. Not much support from the school (more on the subject of have your child change so no longer object: some truth in this but not really an answer). Told our child to stay strong, the end was near. Discovered late in the day that our offspring not the only object of bullying and abuse.
Next year: junior high and a dispersion of that class. Heard from another mother that bully had tried his tactics at new school and parents at his new school were rising up.
Never did hear end of story re bully. But our offspring has progressed from strength to strength.
Moral of story is: forget or ignore formal structures; you have to be there for your offsprings and let them know you have their backs.
“online tool” that allows students to report bullying online anonymously.
Shades of Stalinism is right. Just think where this encouraged line of thinking could go. Psst, so and so is a conservative, or, so and so is a Christian, etc.
Or children turning in their parents for not being loyal Nazis. Or loyal Germans being rewarded for turning in Jews or Stalin loyalists rewarded for turning in starving peoples hidden grain , just as we today have snitch lines for turning in suspected terrorists and one phone call can put a innocent person on the “no fly” list with no recourse for them to get off. It always starts with the little things and expands from there. Trust government never to abuse its powers.
http://boingboing.net/2013/09/28/fbi-we-know-youre-innocent.html
Not surprising that the schools with the strongest “anti-bullying” programs have the most “bullying”. My prediction is that online reporting of “bullies” is going to result in the “bullied” having the crap kicked out of them in retaliation.
My reaction to getting “bullied” as a geek in high school was to pound the crap out of the person who thought I was a pushover because I carried a slide rule. Didn’t take them long to search out less aggressive prey. Being able to fight back is a crucial skill that everyone has to learn. Where I had a difference of opinion about this with my parents and peers was that I considered use of weapons perfectly acceptable in a many on one attack. It’s fine to have a fight setup with two people squaring off against one another with supervision on both sides to end the fight when it gets too one sided, but when one is attacked by 3 people, I would use whatever weapons were handy and, in one case it happened to be a shovel that I whacked a kid on the head with. The group of kids took off but not a very good reaction from my parents. I suppose today I’d be considered a dangerous offender or some crap like that.
With regard to mathematics, every school in the country should have the following Heinlein quote inscribed above its front doors:
“Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.”
It has been my experience that the way to stop`further bullying is to fight back. Growing up, other kids repeatedly tried bullying me from grade 1 to grade 9. Here’s how it ended on the various occasions.
Only once did it ever stop because I talked to the tool (and found out that it was “due” to a case of mistaken identity).
Once it stopped because my older brother found out (he threatened the tool’s older brother if anything happened to me again).
The remaining half dozen times stopped because I ended it by fighting back. That I had to do so repeatedly over the years (with different tools each time), I knew was a problem. In grade 9 I ended it once and for all on my terms, in a place of my choosing, with many witnesses. All the tool had to do was show up and be dumb enough to try again before I went quite literally for his throat. He did not disappoint and it was over in seconds, after which I calmly sat back down and returned to my school work as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened. No one tried bullying me again.
The correlation between bathing and being able to cope with mathematics is not pefectly consistent.
My five year old was bullied the other day.
My seven year old explained to me that they had gone through the antibullying process – WITS – after they got to the S for seek help , poor little Zachie went onto P – he punched the bully as hard as he could in the nose.
Nosebleed and school nurse followed. Zach was in trouble – even though the other kid is nine.
Interestingly , he and the other kid are now fast friends and play at all recesses together , despite the age difference!
Maybe we could just leave them to it , unless the bullying is severe?