I have seen kids bullying other kids by threatening them, taking their belongings & starting fights with them. I feel that parents should get more involved & you will eventually see a decrease in kids bullying other kids!

my son was a victim of a bully last year.  He kept getting sick in the a.m. and missed school. Finally, he told me.  Other kids complained about how my son was treated, but nothing was done until I talked to the principal.  My next step was going to be filing charges.  The principal was VERY concerned, and the boy was expelled because he was a bully to others as well.  Most kids like my son. He is quiet, yet has a good sense of humor.  BUT, he will not fight back.

i was bullied in school and i had threats phyical fights and i had to phyically defend myself just about evey day becuse no one in auhtority cared and one of the bad things was the teachers heard my complants and did nothing about the situation more needs to be done about bullys becuse thats what led to columbine and some other school shoutings play whith fire and youll get burned becuse a lot of the stuff that goes on in thease schools could be prevented if someone in authority would step in and say we dont do that hear and stop it before it gets out of hand children should be able to go to school and be in a safe invorment and not be bullied and if it dose happen nip it in the bud and as far as cell phone threats and computer threats turn it over to the police becuse if you do nothing about it bullies will keep bothering them and one day may lead to a fight maybe even gunns thats why when it happens its best to get the police involved if its at school home or the internet it dosent matter get the law involved let the bullies see the inside of a jail cell it would do them good let them live there a little wile

My child is bullied at Byram Middle School.  Bullying is a serious problem at this school.  Last year my child came home with a bruise on her arm.  I carried her to the school the following day, met with the principal, and showed him the bruise.  He tried to minimize the situation and never punished these children.  This year my child was punished for having a verbal altercation with the same girl who caused my daughter’s injury.  The principal, whether intentionally or not, allowed my child to be placed in the same classroom with the girls who I reported had bullied her. I even
reported this to the superintendent.  The only thing that occurred was my daughter’s schedule was changed.  The student’s in the new class bullied her also.  My daughter is a fair complexioned, intelligent 12-year old with extremely long hair.  She has come home this year with her hair in a bag where she had cut out the gum that these girls chewed and put in her hair.  I have taught my daughter to try to ignore the jealousies of the bullies.  The 7th grade assistant principal told my daughter that he could not do anything about what people say.  The 7th grade counselor told my daughter not to draw attention to herself and to blend in with the others.  My daughter “draws attention to herself” by reading novels at lunch when she does not want to eat and by flicking her hair out of her face.  The counselor recommended that she not do these things. There is also a school safety law that indicates that all acts of violence that occur at a school are to be reported or the administrator can face criminal charges.  The administrators try to conceal the problems that occur at their school by stating that one does not exist or they handle problems when they arise.  Other than camels, I have never seen any other group do such a great job of burying their head in the sand.
The adults who are in charge of protecting our children need to be punished more than the children who are doing the bullying.

While the schools have larger kids on the bus with smaller kids. The smaller kids are afarid of the larger kids. My kid was bully by a older kid 13 telling a 8yearols study to punch my kid in head. Bolton-edwards Elm. Told us to call the bus barn. My kid and the other smaller kid got three days off the bus and school. I think that wasn’t fair to the 13 yr old child to stay on the bus when he initial the
fight. My child missing school for defending himself from being bully is not safe. But the parents in the dist. doesn’t fight for harsh rules as three days out of school and bus.

I have had to take my 14 year old daughter out of North West Rankin Middle school and home school her because of a bully. The school knew about it and did nothing but tell my daughter to get a tougher skin. This is an outrage. I am not a stay at home mom, I work full time, have an autistic son and a mother with stage 4 kidney cancer. I know the school cannot keep my daughter safe and home school was the only alternative for us.

Sunday September 30th 1984 I went to the hospital with a broken arm at the shoulder. upon returning to Pearl High School, I was bullied by a larger black kid while in class. That incident caused a lot of hatred for years after, until I was releived of it by the Lord. People don’t understand just how much resentment, pain, anger etc. can go unchecked before coming to the surface. I thank my Lord everyday I had the best parents :) who got me away from the Pearl School system before the problems surfaced.

Talking bab about them and just taking things from them exspecially if they are over weight person and if a shild is tought things at home on how to treat a person I don’t think they would do this away from home exspecially now days cause people minds are just beyound the world today and time.

I think the violence has gone far enough the bullies at my school has gone to far. Its like they like bullies transformed into gangs. To me people that are apart of gangs are lost little minds that are waiting to be found. It ridicalous that I live and walk dangerous grounds everyday I go to school or even my town.I love my town to death. It’s not the town that bad its some people and the town.

people stay bothering with my child,and im really tired of it.i wish my child can defend his self more often.  from canton

It’s not all about bullying but how the kids think that they are bad and wants to try anyone including girls and all… They need to be exspelled from all schools these want to be thugs!

I think it is wrong for someone to bully another.No matter if it is about race,religion,the way they dress or the way they speak.I always tell my friends at school that the person they mess with might come back and shoot up the school.It really could happen!I don’t put it past anyone!

CHILDREN GOING TO BE CHILDREN BUT NO ONE HAVE NO RIGHT TO BULLY SOMEONE.WHEN I WAS IN SCHOOL I KNEW SOME BULLIES BUT I DID NOT TELL NO ONE ABOUT IT.IT NEED FOR SOMEONE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT BECAUSE THAT HOW PEOPLE GET KILL

I think teachers should pay more attention to bullying. No child should go through this. My daughter comes home every day saying someone bullied me for my snack.im sick of it.Something should be done about it.

When I atteneded school, I was made fun of being poor and the fact my dad was a drunk to the point I dropped out. No teacher ever stepped in. When I did stand up for myself I was often rediculed and often the one getting in more trouble than the person that pushed , pulled my hair,spit on me, or even hit me when teachers not looking and when I told on that person to a teacher they would blow it off as tattle taling or do nothing at all. I have horrible memories of my school days and took along time to gain my self esteem back for becoming a better productive citizen. I’m 34, in college fulltime, work full time, and a single parent of a junior high student.I actively try to help any of my son’s friends at school and always have a door open. The Junior high is where it really starts getting bad. I am lucky to have a son that is friends with popular and poor children but I really stress the point to him to help someone that is bing picked on because I was once such a child. Some teachers really don’t stand up for the children that need it most.