My Little Pony fan Grayson Bruce,says: "They're taking it a little too far, with punching me, pushing me down, calling me horrible names, stuff that really shouldn't happen." Grayson picked a Rainbow Dash bag out this year, which he says has intensified the attacks against him.
Grayson's mother Noreen Bruce, says: "It's promoting friendship, there's no bad words, there's no violence, it's hard to find that, even in cartoons now." But Noreen says on Thursday the school asked him to leave the bag at home because it had become a distraction and was a "trigger for bullying." Noreenn added: "Saying a lunchbox is a trigger for bullying, is like saying a short skirt is a trigger for rape. It's flawed logic, it doesn't make any sense."
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Noreen wants punishment for the students involved. Buncombe County Schools said in statement: "An initial step was taken to immediately address a situation that had created a disruption in the classroom. Buncombe County Schools takes bullying very seriously, and we will continue to take steps to resolve this issue." So Grayson is using a different bag to carry his lunch to school, but he and his mother say they don't believe it's right to force him to leave the My Little Pony bag at home.
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Being right only helps when it makes it easier to recruit help in keeping your butt intact.
But this is punishing the victim. If bullying is the problem, which it clearly is here, then punish the bullies, not their victim. This is a school. How about some education?
I wonder what their solution would have been, if instead of a "girly" bag, the boy had long hair and was bullied because of that.
I think there's a misunderstanding here. The school is taking a sensible approach, it's saying it is taking other steps to stop the bullying, but the bag in question it the trigger for him being perceived as 'different'.
Maybe he has every right to carry it, but the fact remains that it's a trigger for bullying.
Like a red rag to a bull, perhaps1728 . On entering a bull's territory, maybe you have every right to express your colour choice, and he's wrong to gore you. Which would you rather be? Vindicated in your colour choice, or intact?
(And yes, I do know about bulls not really being particularly bothered about red.)
1728?
1728?
Did you not type that?
It was part of the verification....
Sometimes I hate my laptop's touch-pad.
Oh right.
Heh!
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