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There was a video posted on this website, TheGrio, of a student being beaten on a school bus yesterday, Monday, 15 September. The driver was aware of the beating but decided not to stop because he “was only three minutes away” from their destination. The student managed to survive those three minutes.
School Bus Beating Posted on The Grio
www.thegrio.com/2009/09/the-st-lois-post-dispatch-reported.php
Once, a child hit my son in the stomach when they were riding the bus home; I found this out when my son was getting off the bus, he burst into tears and told me what happened. I stepped onto the bus; the bus driver stood up. I climbed the next step, and the bus driver moved into the aisle. I got up to the top step and looked down the bus, trying to see where the boy was that had hit my son. The bus driver was speaking to me; I realized later how he was looking at me, how he was speaking to me. I realized later how I must have looked. I realized later that I didn’t see the boy because he was hiding. The next day I was informed that the boy was no longer at the school.
I was watching the show Intervention last night, it happened to feature a man, Jason B., a 28 year old man who was addicted to cocaine and heroin. He had been a student at Columbine, at the time of the massacre there. His name had been on the list of students, “white hats” as they were called because they, mainly jocks, wore white baseball caps to distinguish their higher status at the school, the shooters had targeted. This man freely admitted on the show that he had been a bully.
Jason B., Intervention episode
www.interventionvideo.com/2009/08/former-columbine-student-on-aes-intervention/
American Idol’s second season runner-up, Clay Aiken, has famously spoken of the bullying he endured growing up. In his memoir, Learning to Sing, he says that the children at his school daily tormented him “like it was their job.” His mother was aware of it; no where in the memoir does it make any reference to her, or anybody, ever standing up for Clay.
I wonder if there’s anything that can be done to stop people like Jason from being bullies. I wonder if there’s anything that can be done to stop people like Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold from becoming mass murderers. I wonder if it would make a difference if they had different kinds of mothers, of homes, of school environments, of bus drivers.
There was a video posted on this website, TheGrio, of a student being beaten on a school bus yesterday, Monday, 15 September. The driver was aware of the beating but decided not to stop because he “was only three minutes away” from their destination. The student managed to survive those three minutes.
School Bus Beating Posted on The Grio
www.thegrio.com/2009/09/the-st-lois-post-dispatch-reported.php
Once, a child hit my son in the stomach when they were riding the bus home; I found this out when my son was getting off the bus, he burst into tears and told me what happened. I stepped onto the bus; the bus driver stood up. I climbed the next step, and the bus driver moved into the aisle. I got up to the top step and looked down the bus, trying to see where the boy was that had hit my son. The bus driver was speaking to me; I realized later how he was looking at me, how he was speaking to me. I realized later how I must have looked. I realized later that I didn’t see the boy because he was hiding. The next day I was informed that the boy was no longer at the school.
I was watching the show Intervention last night, it happened to feature a man, Jason B., a 28 year old man who was addicted to cocaine and heroin. He had been a student at Columbine, at the time of the massacre there. His name had been on the list of students, “white hats” as they were called because they, mainly jocks, wore white baseball caps to distinguish their higher status at the school, the shooters had targeted. This man freely admitted on the show that he had been a bully.
Jason B., Intervention episode
www.interventionvideo.com/2009/08/former-columbine-student-on-aes-intervention/
American Idol’s second season runner-up, Clay Aiken, has famously spoken of the bullying he endured growing up. In his memoir, Learning to Sing, he says that the children at his school daily tormented him “like it was their job.” His mother was aware of it; no where in the memoir does it make any reference to her, or anybody, ever standing up for Clay.
I wonder if there’s anything that can be done to stop people like Jason from being bullies. I wonder if there’s anything that can be done to stop people like Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold from becoming mass murderers. I wonder if it would make a difference if they had different kinds of mothers, of homes, of school environments, of bus drivers.