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Tragic Irony: Teen Gets Bullied During TV Interview About…Bullying
In an odd — and tragic — bit of irony, a high school student from Brunswick, Maryland, was bullied (on camera) by peers this week. While such actions are, unfortunately, quite common in our society, this incident was different. The harassment took place while the student, Preston Deener, was preparing to be interviewed on television about the phenomenon of bullying.
As he was getting ready to discuss the harassment issues he has personally encountered, three boys approached him and one of them began hitting him on the head. So, while he was trying to bring awareness to an important issue that has personally impacted him, he very publicly began facing intense torment in front of a reporter and cameraman.
“The student came up to me and pushed me out of the way and said ‘What are you recording?’,” Preston said, according to WHAG-TV. “All of sudden, the student was chasing me and I needed some help.”
Deener quickly ran from the boys in an effort to get assistance (this can be viewed in news reports and video that captured the incident). Just one week before the media came to interview the boy, he was suspended from school for three days.
The harsh action was taken after Deener fought back against a student who was harassing him during a separate incident. Now, Cheryl Deener, the boy’s mother, is hoping the district takes decisive action.
“I’m hoping now that they take this more seriously than what they have,” Cheryl said, referring to the most recent bullying that was captured on film. ”Preston is very strong but I think he’s a little bit shaken up with what happened today.”
Frederick County Public Schools staffer Michael Doerrer said that the district is looking into the matter after WHAG shared footage of the incident with officials and police.
But Preston and his mother are looking to turn the situation around and they’re planning an anti-bullying dance on Friday night. The goal? To bring awareness to the harassment that young people, like Preston, face on a daily basis.
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HLGarret
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 3:32pmI grew up with an older brother who bullied me for 18years. From the time I was an infant, he burned my entire face with a car cigarette lighter all the way through school with him and all his other bullies. Not only was his behavior condoned, a parent participated in this bulling as well until when I was 19 I had had enough and tried to commit suicide. Well, that didn’t work out too well. To this day, I never want to see that brother ever again, and, that parent did apologize before passing. It affected me socially and in school. Not until I got into college did I realize I could be an A and B student. It will affect you for your entire life!
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Eastinfection
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 5:46pmi got bullied… never had my face burned in the presence of condoning adults though….
Congrats on not being a homicidal maniac.
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kevinj319
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 6:44pmThat’s not bullying. You were abused. That’s different and it’s horrible that you went through that.
People who are “bullied” are just whiners.
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black9897
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 6:51pm@KEVIN
That’s not true, and very unfair to say. There are plenty of kids (even adults) who get bullied.
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db321
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 7:34pmI like to beat up people that bully other people. Started in High School, as I was walking to football practice. I noticed 3 punks picking on a much smaller Boy. I step in the middle and said, to get to him you got to get through me. One idiot took a swing at me and I decked him with one punch. Then I went toward the others and they ran like little girls. That guy was never bullied again, while I was in school.
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Fatheroftwo
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 9:08pmKevinj319:
That is a razor thin line you speak of!! There isn’t much that separates the two!! and your “whiner” comment makes me think you are a bully too!!
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JokerWatcher
Posted on October 12, 2012 at 8:32amBullying is devastating to the one picked on. Bullies on school grounds should be expelled permanently. I was a skinny kid, bullied a lot. I finally fought back when I was 13. A family next door use to pick on me and my brothers & sisters. There were 2 brothers, 14 & 16. One day the 14-yr old boy threw a rock at my sister. He was huge, outweighed me by 20+ pounds, his size and aggression had cowed me up to that point. But that day we fought; for 3 hrs, no kidding, 12-3 PM in the S-Fla sun. Neighbors came out to watch but none stopped it. The fight was basically a draw but that kid left us alone after that. At 6 PM that evening the mother with the 16-yr old in tow came to our gate and called me out. There was so much adrenalin left in me from having finally faced my fears earlier that I literally tore out the front door, thru the gate, and into the 16-yr old laying him out in my first flurry. He went fetal. His mother ran around us screaming at him to get up, fight back, all the while I was trying to get inside as he twisted on the ground trying to protect his face; a 13-yr old pummeling a 16-yr old. She threatened him with a switch if he didn’t get up; he never got up. I finally left them all there in the street. Later that evening he was made to go out and cut a switch and his mother beat him mercilessly with it. I had a horrible childhood but at 13 at least the bullying part ceased. I stood up for myself and others from that time forward.
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DisposableWorker
Posted on October 12, 2012 at 6:39pmFrom all of us who started out in bad places; we love you and want you to know that you are awesome for coming through that. Now when you are having a crappy day at work; you can look back and say to yourself “that person doesn’t really intimidate me and this isn’t really a super bad day”. Stay here with us. I am also proud of you for letting go of the bitterness. That’s really hard to do.
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IOWAGIR
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 6:24amWow! That’s incredible. I am so sorry for what you went through. It seems that the parent and brother that you mention are not worthy of being called family, much less parent or brother. Abuse will either screw you up or make you stronger. In some cases it’s both. I am glad that you have survived. I hope the rest of your journey in life is much easier and full of joy. God bless.
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Ballot_Box_Revolution
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 12:01pm“he has learned to go to authorities when he is bullied”
“He punched the bully in the face, and got suspended”
heh….never defend yourself…go to the authorities….what lame lessons to learn….This could be why bullying is getting worse…
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woodyee
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 3:25pmI was a light-weight in high school – seriously “light” weight. However, I gave my share of whuppins and took my share of poundings, all in sticking up for myself. One or two whuppins and the bullies left for greener pastures; even when I got my arse kicked, they left me alone because they preferred those who cry and those who run. BUT, it’s life; it’s part of growing up.
How much growing up is this kid going to have if A. His daddy is not around (no mention of one in story; B. The SOB at the school rewards his self-defense with a 3-day suspension and C. His mommy is sticking her face in the camera pleading for the bullies to leave him alone, and for the gobblement entity to take action?
When is this stupid kid going to learn to get off of MyFace, Defacedbook, Yoohoo and Tweedle-dumber? His time would be better spent in front of a sensei instead of a monitor…
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Jaycen
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 3:47pmI can’t agree more. Bullying is part of life.
I used to get daily beatings from kids 5 years older than me at the bus stop. I once stood up for a fat kid in the locker room to 4 jocks who were getting ready to have their way with him.
Kids have to stand up for themselves, and the school has to at least look the other way when it happens. If it’s over the top, parents have to get involved.
Biggest reason I was bullied? I was the only kid with a divorced mom in a very small, rural town. Grew up without a dad, but it didn’t stop me from trying to fight back. Fortunately, after weeks of the torment I received, another older boy finally stepped in and kicked the living crap out of the guy who’d been mercilessly beating me.
The fact is, there’s always going to be some jerk who refuses to play by the rules. If we don’t accept that, and then prepare ourselves and children for that reality, those jerks will run all over us. Doesn’t matter how many talks, dances, after-school specials you have. Some people will be cruel monsters to other people. Teaching your child to eat that garbage when it happens is teaching them to be a life-long failure.
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Jethro212
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 5:02pmProblem is, now if you stand up for yourself, you are charles manson with a hitler tattoo. And the kid that was bullying, ah gee shucks his parents are poor and it is really rough DID YOU NOT SEE HE IS A MINORITY!?
Schools suck, pull your kids out like we did, they are prisons now.
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VoteBushIn12
Posted on October 12, 2012 at 12:52am@WOODYEE
“His daddy is not around (no mention of one in story)”
YEAH!
And can you believe the poor kid has no brothers or sisters, or pets, or a home, or running water, and he doesn’t eat, and he can’t read! He probably doesn’t have a heart, brain, or soul either because… well ****, none of those things were mentioned in the story either.
Are we to ASSUME that it’s there even if the two minute story doesn’t explicitly say it? HA! We’re not that gullible!
*end sarcasm*
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Tom K
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 3:16pmObama is the biggest BULLY in America. He bullies Congress, The Supreme Court, Foreign Nations that used to be our Allies, Corporations, Job producing Billionaires; I could go on and on. However, we can stop THIS bully in November !
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Ilikepeople
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 3:26pmIn my opinion people who claim to be the victim have become the bully, and they use the system to bully the bully. A child somewhere is a crawling serpent, playing the victim, playing the weak one, meanwhile the truth of the matter is that child is a smart mouth disrespectful little child who gets pounded by children who want to set him straight. And the smart mouth disrespectful child uses the system to bully the bullies.
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Ilikepeople
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 3:29pmBut you don’t see that your supposedly weak children are using the system to bully the bullies, nope you’re blind to it. You’re blind to it, and that’s why Islam can so easily bully the U.S.
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Ilikepeople
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 3:41pmAdults in America are ruled by children.
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Ilikepeople
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 3:44pmIntelligent, but twisted children these days have all the patience in the world, because they have the trump card, and they know it. All they have to do is pick up the phone.
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Eastinfection
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 5:32pm“i like people”???
Really? do you? doesn’t sound like you “like” Tom, who had a relatively innocuous post.
stop being a bully “ILIKEPEOPLE”
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Mannamomof4
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 3:12pmShame on Mom for leaving it up to the school to handle. Shame on the camera man for not defending this kid. Shame on the school for not expelling the bullies. Shame on the parents of the bullies for not teaching their kids how to treat others. And of course shame on the bullies for their own bad behavior.
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Old Truckers
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 3:23pmShame on the fathers (wherever they are) for not teaching their boys how to be a MAN!
Where are the manly men?
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Jaycen
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 3:49pmAgreed, Mannamomof4.
I once saw 4 kids running after 1 terrified kid in a park. I pulled my truck over and yelled at them to knock it off. I walked over and told them they were cowards for ganging up on the one kid.
That’s all it took.
Of course, I was careful not to say they shouldn’t all work out their differences one-at-a-time, but left that up to be inferred.
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kcdc6211
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 1:02pmRight on..but I wouldn’t put too much on the camera man because it was actually a small young woman, and she even said that the 3 boys didn’t seem to care they were right in front of the camera or that they were screaming at the boys to knock it off.
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Eastinfection
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 3:04pmdon’t get mad….
get even.
be creative.
watch “Revenge of the Nerds” for inspiration
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whatthecrazy
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 4:56pmMy son kicked a bullies a$$ in 10th grade he’s in 12th now.The fight was on youtube and i was mortified at first this boy was pretty big compared to my son and my son totally went bathsalts on him and had to be pulled off.The boy looked so bad they suspended my son three days and had the gall to call my son the bullie.I was so proud we took the time off as vacation.Needless to say his reputation shot thru the roof…………nobody has jacked with him since.
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Eastinfection
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 5:21pmyour son is MY hero. Kudos to you as well..
ps.. don’t suppose you want to post that link? ;)
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kcdc6211
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 1:09pmTo poster above : I think that’s awesome! Kids wont get anywhere if they are getting bullied and follow the schools rules to handle it. There is such a push for bully awareness now but there is no justice there for the victim. I also love your “bathsalts” comment, that is a new one, I’ll have to steal that to use later :) I am confident in knowing that if that ever happens to my son once he gets to school that his father would tell him to man up and possibly show him how to throw a punch if needed. You just prove to the bullies that you are weak as they think if you don’t stand up for yourself AND OTHERS
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floridareader
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 3:00pmIf schools weren’t plagued by liberals, personal values and moral principles were thought and praised at schools, and political correctness was ignored, our society would be heading in the right direction.
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Rob
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 2:59pmI was bullied all the time growing up in the 70′s… I hated it and wished the boys who did it were dead. I never contemplated doing anything violent myself, I wasn’t raised that way, but dead I wished they were. It really affected me and while everything is good in my life now, I still think about it.
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Tom K
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 3:23pm@ ROB : I was bullied by a huge guy, so I told my Dad. He asked me if I wanted it to stop and, of course, I said yes. So Dad said ” Just knock the hell out of him the next time he starts ” and that is what I did. The huge guy could not believe that I hit him so hard and the bullying stopped. Bullies and other “terrorists” only respect Strength. A namby – pamby school system does not understand this and neither does the Obama Administration.
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huey6367
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 2:52pmKids today have no fears or are too stupid to care. They were doing this on camera which gives conclusive evidence of what they are doing. And in the end, nothing will probably happen.
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OniKaze
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 2:49pmBullying is a Three Part Problem..
1. Kids grow up today, seeing people saying, “Don’t bully..” But nothing is ever done to the bullies, so there is no incentive NOT to bully.
2. The Victims show weakness (which is not a crime, but to never fight back, only encourages more bullying).
3. Parents turn a blind eye, because they are typically in denial that THEIR kid is either a bully or a victim…
You will NEVER stop bullying until ALL 3 issues are addressed… In the end (as sad as it is to say) bullying is fun (for the bully) and until all 3 issues are addressed, then that will always be the case.
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13th Imam
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 3:01pmMany times a swift kick in the nads to the biggest bully will prove a point, then if you want stay and take a beating, stay, or beat feet if there are just too many. Sometimes you just have to take a stand.
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loriann12
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 3:14pmAnd 4. schools punish the ones being bullied so everyone is afraid to stand up to a bully. I’ve said it on here before, my son had a black girl throw money (coins) at his face the last day of school. I flat out told th school if anything like that happned this year, I was personally going to press assault charges against her, black or not. The parent has to be forceful. Our local talk show host said he told his son, tell a teacher *3 times* specifically that you ARE BEING BULLIED. The forth time, deck em and don’t stop hitting until someone pulls you off. He said that’s exactly what happened with his son and when called to the office to let him know that his son was going to be suspended he said, no he’s not. He told you 3 times and you did nothing. He fixed the situation and he’s not missing any school.
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JediKnight
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 3:29pmYou forgot the 4th part of the problem. The kids that gets bullied is usually punished when he does fight back. This a problem with the school administration. When it reaches that point (if they let it get that far), the bully should be suspended. If the bully does it again, they get a long suspension. If they do it a third time, they get expelled.
Note I’m referring to three separate incidences. I don’t care if it isn’t the same kid that gets bullied. Bully’s almost always have a history with the school office to the point where the administration knows them by face.
The fact that the reporter in this video actually said that this kid learned his lesson about fighting back by getting suspended disturbs me to no end. We tried the “tell someone” with our son. He turned 5 when we started that. More recently I’ve been telling him “You fight back, I’ll take care of what happens” because “tell someone” doesn’t work. The teachers tell the bully not to do that and give them a “bad card”, but it resets every morning. Some bullies work the system, others go to far. I’m teaching my kid to fight back because I’m tired of the “tell someone” line.
Yes, I was bullied growing up. Yes, I hated every moment. I made it through, but it still disgusts me that we reward the bully (with inaction) and punish the bullied kid.
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kevinj319
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 6:52pmCount me in as having a kid that was suspended for fighting back. Third grader. Granted, my son did a poor job articulating to the principal why he beat the living tar out of the kid. The problem is, while the school has an anti-bullying policy, they also discourage tattling, and he did not know the difference between tattling and asking for help. Nevermind that the oblivious teacher didn’t notice any of this happening in the classroom.
The kid does not bother him anymore and is super nice to him now. Who says violence never solves anything? Useless school administration.
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Swimming-with-the-Sharks
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 2:49pmI couldn’t see his face, but it look’s like Dan Savage is still out there bullying people who disagree with him:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alXxsKLVofM
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Capt_Gregg
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 5:12pmYa gotta love how many students walked out on the perverted POS. I wonder who approved having him speak at that school. If he were invited to my kids’ school (they’re grown now), I’d have been all over the school administrators, and my kids would have missed that day of school..
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SDAJumpmaster
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 2:47pmThe best way to deal with a bully has always been – and will always be – to sock him in the nose and hopefully break it. Nothing breaks a bully like forced humility. We have feminized America so far that we now have to call th ecops to deal with name-calling. When did we stop being the nation who beat the British Empire, freed the slaves, and won WWII!?!?
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paperpushermj
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 2:58pmStarted with the Women’s movement, because they built themselves up by tearing men Down.
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Tarantulas
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 3:05pmAbsolutely! I was bullied for a while in high school. Finally I had enough and went out behind the shops to fight one of the bullies. It was a draw, but the bullying stopped after that day. Also, there’s this:
“Otis, a strong man stands up for himself. A stronger man stands up for others.”
– Ben the Cow, “Barnyard”
It would be nice if some of the big kids would stand up to the bullies too.
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THX-1138
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 2:46pmIf you want a society of weak people then you teach the people to be weak and run to the authorities for “help”.
Now, the real question is, “Who benefits from a sociey of weak people?”
Once you look deep enough there are few real mysteries…
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Blacktooth
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 2:46pmI was bullied for the first time in the sixth grade by a big kid, then I fought back with real determination.
I was never bullied again.
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EtchASketch
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 2:42pmThat kid is Paul Ryan tonight.
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Eastinfection
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 5:50pmI’m rooting for Ryan but i will laugh my a$$ off if Biden chases him through the parking lot!
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GoodStuff
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 2:42pmGet your kids out of public schools? Do you hate your kids?
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LeadNotFollow
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 2:42pm.
This is what’s wrong with public schools. When the victim, the kid who gets bullied fights back, that child is punished by the school.
Public schools should encourage kids to defend themselves and fight back, not punish them for doing so.
Send public schools a message. Home school your kids.
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Blacktooth
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 2:55pmIf a kid looks like a victim and acts like a victim, he or she will be a victim.
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CommonSenseTalk
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 2:41pmIf I went up to a police officer and hit him in the head what would happen? Could I just tell him, “I’m kidding, just messing around” and he could do nothing about it?
This is assault, stop calling it anything else but assault. How can anyone ask, I have no idea why that boy took a firearm to school. He was such a good kid, until he spent 4 years of assaults and humiliations,
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SREGN
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 2:34pmPublic schools will do anything to stop bullying except actually punish the bullies. Instead, they punish the victims.
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razhunter100
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 2:32pmlay off the bully bs…quit raising a bunch of wimps…it is called self respect and self defense.
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EtchASketch
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 2:42pmYou sound like a real winner. Turn up the Eagles, the neighbors are listening.
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razhunter100
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 2:58pmis that all you have…
please come back when grow some pubes and living on your own…
don’t make me call your daddy.
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EtchASketch
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 3:32pmWow, the irony of you delivering an “is that all you have” and countering with a “parents’ basement.”
Now there’s originality for you!
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razhunter100
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 6:28pmspanky says what …?
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razhunter100
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 6:32pmetch,
go back to sleep…daddy will wake ya in a bit.
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razhunter100
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 2:30pmwant a scoop …quit with the 18+ trackers…ya bunch of sorry mf’ers.
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sta
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 2:41pmDownload Ghostery and stop your complaining.
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razhunter100
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 2:54pmi have it…plus many other blockers…not complaining , stating a dam fact.
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razhunter100
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 2:57pmbtw , limpoid
many porn sites just have 3 or 4 trackers…theblaze has 18…
next.
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IrritableGimp
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 2:28pmI still can’t understand why people send their most valuable assets, their kids, to public indoctrinating schools (aka. skrewls).
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sillyfreshness
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 2:33pmLiberalism=where you punish the victim for self defense. That’s they kind of warped mentality liberalism subscribes to.
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SREGN
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 2:37pmMostly because they’re broke from paying municipal, state, and federal taxes to send everyone else’s kids to school. There’s no money left for private school tuition. That’s why the voucher system is key to reform.
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sta
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 2:39pmI fully agree. Get your kids out the the “Lord of the Flies” atmosphere.
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Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 2:27pmThey punished the kid for standing up for himself? You’ve got to be kidding. Keep it up jack@$$es. Then when the kid comes in and shoots up a school because he was “out of options” you can all explain to the families why little Suzy is dead because you needed to punish kids for standing up for themselves.
We’re raising a generation of sheep. Good for nothing school administrators. (rant off)
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huey6367
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 2:55pmColumbine
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kevinj319
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 6:57pmYes, this is common, unfortunately. It is absurd but I am not surprised by it anymore. Zero-tolerance policy. No knives means you are suspended for a plastic knife in your lunchbox. No weapons means you can be expelled for carrying a multitool that happens to have a blade. No fighting means if you defend yourself, you are guilty. Zero tolerance policies are the enemy of common sense.
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paperpushermj
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 2:26pmWelcome to the hard facts of being a man in this World. You need to take care of business yourself because no one is going to help you. Women will see you as weak and men will say “take care of yourself”as long as you have a fair shot ( one on one ) of defending yourself… your on your own.
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sta
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 2:40pmWho do you think this kid is? Captain America?
One kid against a bully and his friends means teeth knocked out.
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Duddio
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 2:53pmDid you read the article? He was suspended last week for standing up for himself. Zero tolerance schools provide no justice to victims. Defend yourself and you are just as guilty as your attacker, teaching kids to be victims early in life……
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paperpushermj
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 2:54pmThat why I stipulated one on one. Don’t know if you are a man or not but “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” is one of the realities of male life. Not asking you to endorse it, just understand that’s the way it is.
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capitalismrocks
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 2:24pmThey punish the kid for defending himself, you know if he is tackled, being assaulted, its a little tough for him to run to the principles office to ask for him, so he did what he should have done, fought back, showed the kid(s) he wasn’t going to just take it, you don’t punish the kid for defending himself in a situation like that, school admins are idiots.
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Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 2:28pmThe only thing the kid (parents) did wrong is they shoulda stomped a mudhole in that pansy school admin. while they were at it.
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Frodo RinosBane
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 2:22pmThis guy and all bullied like him need to keep on punching and kicking. The administration is never going to be there, so they better take care of themselves. Oh, it will escalate the situation? So what.
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