I’ve decided that I’m in a ranting and being pissed off mood for no real reason out of nowhere. So y’all get to hear me get really angry. I’ve kind of thought of doing a vlog each week where I just talk about things that make me angry, because quite frankly I could go off for quite a while on quite a few different things. So here goes nothing.
I have never been so angry as I was today to find out about the “counter-bullying” punishment that was set down by a school on someone. Apparently, two high school kids were making fun of a mentally-disabled girl on the bus and one person finally had enough and shut them up after going to the school about it and telling them it needed to be stopped. Afterwards, she was punished by the school for “counter-bullying” if we put a term on it where they claimed she tried to stop bullying by being a bully herself. Am I the only one who thinks this is the biggest load of bullshit? Hey schoolboard, YOU WEREN’T DOING ANYTHING SO SOMEBODY ELSE STEPPED IN YOU FUCKING IDIOTS. She was helping someone who probably did not have the means to help themselves and she deserves punishment for it? Bullying is bad, yes. Should we advocate violence or whatever this girl did, not necessarily. Should she be punished for standing up for someone who was being opressed, HELL FUCKING NO. We as a society have become hypocrites for what we preach to our students. “No, you shouldn’t use force to counteract against someone who’s bullying, but if you go to war for our causes and kill people and try and liberate countries that didn’t ask for our help, well by God you go right ahead!” The worst part of this is that the school did nothing in a situation where a mentally-fucking-disabled student was being bullied. They always told us to not be bystanders in situations like this and someone followed what the school told them but instead of being praised for bringing the situation to a halt they’re told that it’s WRONG? The government wants people in the school systems to address situations like this in a totally unreasonable fashion, provided that the school does nothing for it, as they didn’t. This is the same government that still has troops overseas, killing and slaughtering over issues that happened 10 years ago and also after capturing both of the head two guys that they were after. This whole situation is absolutely absurd to me. I grapple with the reality that I might be (and probably will be) in a school system that makes no sense to me, and it really makes me think about whether I can be a teacher or not.