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OMG, no one could possibly seen how this could go wrong… Your family is really poor, aren’t they Johnny, is your Dad still in jail? Jane, you dress like a tomboy, are you maybe gay? Now everyone, let’s have empathy for them.
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Forcing Lil’ Tommy to show everyone his hemorrhoid probably took things too far.
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(Heavy Sigh).
I applaud their intentions and the fact they are willing to address the bullying problems nearly all schools face. However, I have to wonder how they went about developing this program. I can tell you as a middle-aged gay man that there would be very little chance I would have answered honestly when I was that young. Sexuality is deeply personal and is best discussed in the abstract – as is religion. Same for most of the other topics, I’m betting.
I really do want to thank the administrative staff for realizing the need for these programs, but I hope they are learning from this misstep how better to approach it. Kudos to the school district, but, please take some good notes here and improve the program going forward. Also, you might want to consider discussing this one-on-one with the students negatively affected.
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Isn’t that wonderful? Next week, let’s ask the faculty and school board the same questions and see how they like it.
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“I am a Muslim. Sometimes I’m depressed. I worry about bad things happening in the future.”
Ten minutes later:
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Lippert says the “Kindness Workshop” was created after bullying reports with good intentions but had unintended consequences.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions…
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“Lippert says the “Kindness Workshop” was created after bullying reports with good intentions but had unintended consequences.” Huh?
TPM, at it again.
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Kicking in door.
DOWN ON THE GROUND!
DOWN ON THE GROUND!
SHOW ME YOUR HANDS!
SHOW ME YOUR HANDS!
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For some reason (?) I always liked Ricky Williams.
He did a cereal commercial and his line was “What’s up with that?”
My wife and I still use it when confused about something. Don’t ask.
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What intentions are you applauding? If the intention was to educate on bullying…just how in the world would this do that? How could this program achieve what it claimed it wanted to achieve?
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Nobody expects the Kindness Inquisition!!!
seriously though…WTF were these people thinking? It’s overreaches and “mistakes” like this that give the conservatives and bigots, who blame the sky falling on everything being so “PC”, ammunition to shoot at us.
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Yeah hahaha…unfortunate prepositional phrase order made a mess of that sentence.
Where do you start? If you want to reduce bullying via educating folks about it good. But you use tools that would get that done. You cant make a cake with a backhoe and a torque wrench and you sure as shit aren’t going to educate people with a “program” like the one in the bit. If this thing went down as the article describes there’s a lot more than inappropriateness to blame. These guys went way over the line. It can’t be made OK the way they are trying to do it. It was wrong whether other folks “support” it or not.
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I can see more bullying in the future.
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Sometimes keeping the lights on clears up matters.
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Ignorant unfunny comments are fortunately otherwise rare here, unlike at some other blogs.
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“Isn’t that wonderful? Next week, let’s ask the faculty and school board the same questions and see how they like it.”
“School board president Debbie Mirich says the board supports Superintendent Jerri Lynn Lippert, district administrators and teachers.”
So Debbie, why don’t you volunteer. That’s good, get in the middle. Okay.
So … ah Deb … you … ah … like preg or still just a fattie? Couldn’t be your husband (looking around at the group). Whole fucking town knows he’s gay for Christ’s sake (taking high fives). Sheriff told me your 3 months back on the mortgage. Any truth to that Deb? You and the Sheriff working that off? Laughter all around.
My opinion here is pretty much armchairing it, but here goes. From what I can see, the school administrators got together at one time to discuss bullying in its various forms. However they came about it, they seem to have settled on an approach similar to what folks at AA meetings do: State your name and your situation, whatever that may be. The set-up they settled on was a teacher/adult, etc., asking a student these various questions with the intent being something like “See, everyone, many of you have more in common that you realize; you’re each a very beautiful individual with some similarities but also unique in your own way – and nobody should be harassed or felt less than because of those unique factors.”
I really do applaud their taking some form of (what they thought was) positive actions. How they settled on this particular approach, I don’t know, but so many districts either turn a blind eye to the problems or join in the harassing of those who are different.
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