Today, in the absence of my god-daughter's parents, I went in their place to see her elementary school's principal. She apparently stood up to a known bully's violence and retaliated, sending said bully to the hospital. Not only she may be facing expulsion, I may get sued by the bully's parents. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I finally stood up for myself and beat the crap out of a bully at school, as my father told me to do. The kid and I were called to the principal's office, along with our parents. Inside my father's smirk faded when he saw that the kid's mom was his boss. FML
Today, I got my ass beat by some kid in my grade. The reason I was targeted? The superintendent, aka my idiot father, suspended him for defending himself in another fight. The kid told me it's not personal, he needed to prove a point that our school doesn't do shit about bullying, As much as I agree with him… FML
Today, I lost my job as a pre-school teacher. The school had to shut down and may be facing legal issues. Our head teacher's super spoiled bully of a son (who sided with him), harshly picked on and hurt a girl classmate, who happened to be the only granddaughter of the school's greatest benefactor, who's greatly wealthy. FML
Today, my 4-year-old daughter stood up to a bully in the mall. I was the one who was getting bullied. FML
Today, I was suspended from school for “being involved in a fight.” The other girl beat me up while I didn't do anything to defend myself, for fear of getting in trouble. She got off scot free. FML
Today, I learned my son has been picking on a girl he has a crush on. He apparently went too far, because she finally snapped and beat him up at recess. The teacher, who knew about this from the beginning and actively did nothing, is trying to throw me under the bus for being oblivious to my son's behavior. FML
Today, I had to sneak out of work to get my daughter from her school. Apparently, she had thought that hurling a bowling ball down the stairs during the lunch hour rush would make her cool. In actual fact, it made her expelled. FML
Today, I stood up to the school bully in a fight. Rather than thank me, the whole school, including some of his victims, now treat me like a psycho. Apparently they tolerated him because of his terrible foster parents, so me hitting him was actually way out of line, and insensitive. How did I become the bad guy here? FML
Today, I finally stood up to the guy who's been bullying me for the last 2 years. Even though he's been caught in the act several times, he never gets punished, so I figured I'd get away with gut-punching him. Nope. An hour later, I was suspended from school. FML
Today, my friend was picking on me at school by constantly tapping on my shoulder. At recess I had enough. I felt the familiar tap on my shoulder, and I drove my elbow into what I thought was my friend's stomach. It was my Principal. FML
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BurnInDemonFire 39
Are her parents permanently absent, or were they just unable to make it to see the principal this time? Ask the bully's parents how they'd feel if all the kids s/he targeted counter sued for all the physical and mental harm caused, and see if they're still willing to go ahead with the lawsuit.
NostalgiaFreak9 43
Those dumbass parents don't realize how lucky they are that their child is alive despite having a history of bullying other kids, because especially in today's climate, there's always a psychopath that shows up to school with a weapon to put an end to bullying, and s/he has a chance to learn from his/her behavior. As for the school, they should've recommended the bully for expulsion instead of your god-daughter, given that s/he has a history of bullying others with violence included and your god-daughter (I assume) was simply standing up for herself, but I guess that zero tolerance crap only applies to people that refuse to take shit from a bully, and not the people actually doing the bullying.
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BurnInDemonFire 39
Are her parents permanently absent, or were they just unable to make it to see the principal this time? Ask the bully's parents how they'd feel if all the kids s/he targeted counter sued for all the physical and mental harm caused, and see if they're still willing to go ahead with the lawsuit.
NostalgiaFreak9 43
Those dumbass parents don't realize how lucky they are that their child is alive despite having a history of bullying other kids, because especially in today's climate, there's always a psychopath that shows up to school with a weapon to put an end to bullying, and s/he has a chance to learn from his/her behavior. As for the school, they should've recommended the bully for expulsion instead of your god-daughter, given that s/he has a history of bullying others with violence included and your god-daughter (I assume) was simply standing up for herself, but I guess that zero tolerance crap only applies to people that refuse to take shit from a bully, and not the people actually doing the bullying.
JackFaire 27
Actually like in Columbine it's usually the bully that shows up to do the killing.
Emma Marshall_738558922 12
Typical school bullshit
RichardPencil 32
To the hospital?!?!? I ****** up two bullies in school and no one went to the hospital. What the hell did your god-daughter do?
yeongji 31
I would not put it past the bully's parents for making the injuries seem worse than they actually are. They know their kid is in the wrong, but they still want to sue the victim's family? Something is not right here, and if they really want to sue, they should sue the school for letting things get that far (from bullying to a trip to the hospital).
ViviMage 40
You are *not* the legal guardian of the child unless the court appoints/awards you custody. If you are the legal guardian, then I'd start worrying. Godparents is usually just a title for presenting the child at Catholic baptism and takes responsibility of religious education, and MAYBE listed as the requested family to take in a child per the parent's wishes if the child is orphaned. If you didn't have a court assign you responsibility, they can't do anything to you. I sent a boy to the hospital because he jumped on my back while I surfaced in the school pool. I was doing endurance testing for how far in feet I could swim under water for a better grade. Dimwit landed on me, drug me under, and bear hugged me under water right as I was trying to breathe, so I instantly took water in my lungs and squirmed and flailed in obvious distress! I spin around and tried to put my foot on his thigh to push away. No difference to him. Did I mention I had school issued swim flippers on, with metal ribs along the foot and extending past the toes? I found some soft fleshy squishy part of his body and started digging my flippers' tines as deep and as hard as I could until he let go! Right into the Slim Jim and 2 cherries I shredded his swim trunks, and he needed stitches on *other* parts. He screamed for me to be suspended because I hurt him while he stood there with his ripped trunks. He was told what a fight or flight instinct is, HE is being suspended, and may be charged with attempted homicide. No one suspended/expelled me, no suing. His own damn fault. If I drowned in the pool by his hand, well... getting his entire lap shredded would be the least of his problems. And I dare say once that story got around, I never got harassed again. Or a date!
Squidgegg 4
Dragged. The past tense of drag is dragged, not drug.
ned diggers 14
Good for her. I sent one to the hospital myself when I was 8. I would have sent him to the morgue, had I not been stopped.
Charlie Given 28
Get a good lawyer and sue the school for non protection of child to the point of forced self defense
phaelnb 26
Pit the school against the bully's parents, say that if there is a lawsuit the school will be implicated as complacent to the bullying that provoked this, even if nothing comes of the lawsuit their reputation will sink because of this. Also, run to grab every document the school has about the bullying to prevent them from covering it up. Finally, buckle up, lawyers are assholes in court, they'll do nasty stuff, like saying you didn't raise her right and she's violent because of that. Good luck.
IThriveWithYourPain 14
well the bully's parents couldn't really sue you as you are not the actual parent, also good on that girl for beating the living shit out of the bully
ViviMage 40
Godparents can get legal custody of a child and become the legal guardian, in the event of the passing of the parents or something like abuse/illness where the biological parents can't continue caring and raising the child. The question is, is this godmother legally appointed to be responsible? If she is then yes she can be sued for damages.
chessu 21
Sadly, she'll be judged based on her actions and not the bully's, even though morally she may have been in the right. In my workplace there's a girl who's already gotten someone wrongfully fired, is lazy and bad at her job and is generally disliked by most of the department. I called her out on it recently, and I am in more trouble 'for my attitude' than she is for not doing her job. Whatever I say to my managers in my defense, they will fire back with how I should've handled it better/told her manager etc and this god-daughter will be treated the same. She was still violent and could've handled it better and that's something that on paper is so hard to argue.