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[turps]

I've just seen the most horrible thing walking home from school. The way the schools are situated a good majority of the secondary and primary students meet around the park/church area of the town. It's always packed at 3.30 and was today. Corey and I were just coming through the church yard and we saw a load of secondary pupils in a huge mob. There were more and more joining in, hanging on the railings to see. In the middle was a young boy getting the crap beat out of him. He only looked about 14, when he was dragged out by someone his face was ruined. They were like animals, there were young children there coming home from nursery and the primary school. One young girl got hit and she was screaming. The police were phoned and luckily the station is only a minute down the road, so the sight of three police cars broke them up.

We were waiting at the bus stop after and some boys were bragging about how they kicked a girl, and others complaining about police harassment, and I just thought, what the hell is wrong with them? The thought of sending Corey to that school frightens me and it's still 4 years away.

I know it's naive but I don't see why anyone has to do things like that.

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[castalie.livejournal.com]

I know. We hear these kinds of things all the time here, and I just *cannot* understand it either. Kids are turning into dangerous creatures, even more than before, it seems.

[nopseud]

How horrible. Were the kids in an identifiable uniform? If so, I'd think about calling the school and telling them what went on. It would be an interesting way of finding out more about the school's response to that kind of behaviour. I know at the school I went to, anyone behaving like that on the way home would be at least suspended. If the school isn't at all interested then, yes, I'd be worried about sending a child there too.

[maubast.livejournal.com]

There is a reason I homeschool. When my daughter went to kindergarten (parochial, Lutheran), the other children backed her into a corner, over and over, and teased and mocked her. I was absolutely furious. My daughter is very timid (even though she's much more outgoing now that she's maturing) and shy. If the other children weren't tormenting her because she was different (she had two dads and a mom - we're poly) they were tormenting her because she was 'new' (they had known each other forever because of their church).

Gosh, it makes me mad. Um, sorry for the rant. :)

[lindas-muse.livejournal.com]

You are not naive. I blame the parents. Things like that are wrong and proper upbringing would not have let something like that happen.

If something like that happened at my son's school, we'd find a way to afford private school.

The types of kids that do that are usually either single parent kids, or their parents don't control them at home either.

Don't get me wrong, I know single parents who have done a better job than propter pairs, but if the parents don't provide proper discipline and values, then what you saw is the result.

In my humble opinion. It's terrible you had to see that. But it gives you 4 years to think of other options now that you are fore warned.