http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Formal-Charges-Against-Santa-Rosa-Mom-Who-Chocked-Daughters-Alleged-Bully-Postponed-260288271.html
This article is about how a Santa Rosa mother took matters into her own hand and protected her baby girl. Her lawyer argues that she did nothing wrong and was only trying to protect her daughter. The Santa Rosa mother was scared of her daughter's safety. But on the other hand, by going to the school and talking to the bully can be a safety issue. Although she went on to the campus without signing in as a visitor, I would be scared knowing how flexible security is. I think the main issue here is the school. If the school was more involved in the kids playground issue, the mother wouldn't feel threaten to handle things on her own. Also, the fact that the mother just walked right onto the playground is scary. It show's how less of an attention security or guards are when it comes to watching the kids. Both these problems come to a meet of security. Both sides of feel unsafe and that is one major issue the school should talk about.
Feel free to comment any other ideas or thoughts you guys came across while reading the article and my blog.
While I do admire the mother for standing up for her young daughter, I don't believe she took the appropriate course of action either through the administration or the district. Even if the system seems to be inadequate, a physical confrontation, especially in a public school environment, does not resolve the issue and only creates a safety and security hazard for the staff and students.
ReplyDeleteI agree with terence, I believe the mother was appropriately worried for her daughter. The mother could have gotten the administration to take action instead. She could have supervised the situation as well instead of just walking onto school grounds and dong this.
ReplyDeleteI think that her intentions were good but just like Terence said I think that she took the wrong course of action. She should have talked to the bully's parents or as Terence said talk to the administration. And if the allegations against her are true that she did use physical violence against the boy. Then I think that she should be punished even though she was just trying to defend her daughter. Because physical violence is not ok especially using physical violence against children.
ReplyDeleteI also agree, the mother had good intentions in trying to protect her daughter but the tactics of action that she took were far beyond what should be done. I feel that the mother should have tried to talk to the administration and if not talk to the bully's parents, various things could have been done in order to prevent the course the case took. One thing that did stand out to me was the highlight of security. If security was doing a better job in preventing so called "strangers" than the whole assault wouldn't have occurred but the lack of security against strangers and dangers of outside the school make it questionable to how much security is being done inside the school to prevent bullying or any other type of violent interaction.
ReplyDeleteShe's a mother it's natural instinct to protect your child but I don't know how I feel about her using physical violence against a child. Yes it's wrong to do so but growing up in the polynesian culture this is nothing new. A lot of times parents slap another child if they feel they're child's safety is in danger. Now here in America that is totally frowned upon but back in the islands there is a strong belief in the saying "A child is raised by a whole village" I understand where the mother is coming from, why should she wait for administration, if they had just done their job from the beginning she wouldn't have felt obligated to step in. Feel free to disagree, this is just personal opinion.
ReplyDeleteOne could argue that it was all done with reasonable intentions, but her course of action totally took away the main point of view. As mother and an adult, she should have come a conclusion in order to solve this problem and avoiding anymore conflict than there already is. You don't add to a fire in order for it to calm it down. Otherwise, you get burned.
ReplyDeleteI think the mother did the right think but setting the kid straight. As a child I was always taught that if someone ever hit me to hit them back. There have been many stories of parents complaining to the administration and they said they will take care of it and nothing ever happens to the bully. The kids being bullied feel hopeless and they start to grow hate and resentment. This leads to school shootings or them going on killing sprees.
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