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Zero-tolerance policies.
Usually the effect of these policies is that a kid who's getting bullied puts up with it until he can't anymore, then finally fights back and gets suspended. Same thing here.
Personally, I don't think we should encourage violence, but I also don't see a problem with letting kids fight it out. He was lucky all she did was hit him.
I hope her parents have the good sense to financially crucify the school district. "No tolerance" policies are bullshit and favor the offender.
Indeed. I always tell my kids don't punch first. Punch last.
I would consider making deep fake porn of someone (a minor, especially) and publishing it to be punching first.
A big part of the problem is also that schools see physical violence separate from emotional violence. That is...they don't see emotional violence. They handwave it as "just bullying". The bully gets nothing more than a slap on the wrist (if that) until they strike physically.
And, the school exists in a bubble. If bullying happens outside of school/the bus (say, online), their hands are tied.
Then one day the bullied kid snaps and schools acts like it was completely unprovoked.
What he did is WAY worse. Fuck that kid, or make a deepfake porn of it? I dont know what lesson the law wants us to get out of this. If she's expelled, dude needs to deported.
Seems very on-brand for Louisiana.
Zero tolerance strikes again...
At the very least, it's revenge porn: https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/Law.aspx?d=78391
The victim is under 17. The idiot kid is seriously flirting with being registered as a sex offender.
A child absolutely should not be put on that list for this. This should result in punishment but we don't need to be punishing children for their entire lives for doing things they are literally incapable of comprehending the full ramifications of.
Honestly? Not being in that school anymore is probably a good thing, especially for her. Record be damned; not one single fucking thing that i went through in school went on to matter to anyone but me. And unfortunately all that stayed relevant to me was the trauma. so, yeah, I'd say NOT being forced to suffer in that concentration daycamp full of shitbag crotchgoblins who hate her is an improvement.
TL;DR:
Good for her.
Furthermore,
I hope her ex-classmate never forgets that punch and re-lives it every time the thought to deepfake porn of someone resurfaces.
Serious question, why are those who hit a bully get punished instead? No wonder there is rise of authoritarianism because the bully are practically worshipped and given a pass. Bullying is embedded in the culture.
back in the day we fought back intending to do as much damage as possible because of equal punishment. how did things get worse than equal punishment
A very big issue with our education system is that there's no nuance in it. The way the system is set up makes it so that schools are incentivized to compete with each other to please the district, and the district to please the state. That's how they get their funding. What this leads to is schools putting their best interests ahead of their students. If schools prioritized the students, they would've taken the context of the story and punished the bully and not the victim. However, since they prioritize themselves, they tried to keep the story under wraps to avoid bad PR, and expelled her regardless of context so they can distant themselves and save their image.