Bullies

I have a womb and will let you know what I want done with it when I want it done.  Ugh.  Dumb Tea Party/Extreme Republicans.  You'd think that these male Republicans wished that they also had a uterus.......oh....wait, but that would be unnatural.....hmmmmm...

Anyway, haven't written in my blog for awhile and decided to write tonight, especially after reading about yet another suicide of a young girl, age 11.  She was bullied until she couldn't take it any more, until she felt so alone.  She was alone.  The schools in the United States tend to wait until something like this happens to one of their own.  They do not care until they make it in the news with this type of negative publicity.  I am putting the blame on the schools and the bully and the bully's family.  The school needs to step forward.  They need to put a STOP to this kind of action before it barely gets started.  They do this, and children will feel as though they can come forward, that there are people they can count on to help them.  If they continue to allow the bullying, children feel as though there is no one there for them, no one they can go to talk to and get them out of situations such as this one.  They can talk to their own family who usually goes to the school to request help.  The school promises to "talk" to the bully and the bully's family......but this is where it ends.  Even if it is repeated, the school justifies the actions by saying, well we already talked to them...blah, blah, blah *insert excuses here.*  If our legal system charged the bully and the school district with murder each time there was a suicide, this could significantly decrease these suicides and bullying.  They would be so much more strict in their consequences for bullies.  This is extreme, but apparently numerous deaths of students who feel helpless and that death is their only way out, away from pain, isn't good enough.  School districts see these actions at other schools and they stand aside...ignoring what they see, ignoring the problems within their school.  Bullies should be charged with assault or harassment and severe and immediate consequences should happen.  Their families should be charged if they refuse to take action, if they refuse to admit there is a problem.  Many families refuse to admit their precious child is mean, is a bully.  Snap out of it.  There is time to stop the problem if you aren't ignorant.  This is how school shootings occur, this is how suicides occur.  Ignorance and ignoring problems will not solve the problem(s).  Duh.  Take action.  Protect people from bullies and hold bullies and schools who refuse to stop them accountable. 

*Kristen