Can I legally sue the parents of the bully at school who's picking on my son?

Jerry, Jerry, Jerry, Jerry

Most schools have an anti-bullying policy. Your school simply needs to enforce it. Sit down with the principal and any teachers involved with your son's educational supervision. Review the policy with them and challenge them to get busy doing the right thing. In my son's school bullies can only exist if parents let it happen. Translation: take corrective action.

And the lawsuit thing? That'd only be a giant waste of time. Bad idea.

dude, you rock. I laughed so hard reading that.

i remember being picked on in PE in about 3rd grade or something (weldon and i were so skinny they called us twix - twin stix) by a bigger guy. I got sick of it. I told him to stop. I warned him, repeatedly. I was like "stop doing it (I can't remember what he was doing - they used to hold my arms together and crap) or you'll be sorry."

He kept goign so I counted down and then went "wham" I kneed him in the balls as hard as I could (he was holding me). He went down like a sack full of bricks.

I then had about time to escape. His fellow big friend ran after me but for the rest of PE, I just stayed ahead as my endurance and speed was way better. The kid who lost his manhood actually got up after about 5 minutes and told his friend to not come after me as i had warned him.

I really should let this keep going, but ^^this^^ is the pinnacle of my existence! I got a Brojo to fall for a troll thread!

The King of Trolls strikes again!

No dont sue, your son is going to have to learn how to stick up for himself. Talking to the bullies parents may work now but soon as he gets around the 5th or 6th grade it wont work anymore it would probly make it worse. TELL YOUR SON TO HIT HIM BACK AND KEEP HITTING IF HE GETS BACK UP AND GOES AFTER HIM.I'm in highschool now and been through the same experiences, they did not stop messing with me until i started cracking skulls. They will eventually become friends later on, and the bully will learn his lesson.

*high five*

I think we all knew you were a troll but the topic is relevant.

The word "bullying" gets thrown around way to much. I think kids who get "picked on" like Rojo said is different. Regardless to your initial troll post kids are too sensitive today. Its a problem with dad's always at work and not teaching their kids how to work hard for something besides sitting on the computer all day.

Now rojo should troll you by blocking your IP for posting in the forum.

You are bullying this parent. You idiot. In FLorida, you are allowed to get $1000 when you son get physically attached. I bet you have no kids.

sign him up for the local wrestling club team program. Wrestling is an awesome sport & it teaches kids a lot of life lessons. My son wrestled for 6 years during elem & MS. He's an undersized kid who is also sensitive & would never bully anyone, but he's taken matters into his own hands a few times with neighbor kids who thought they could bully him. Nobody messes with the little dude now.. Wrestling gives a kid some great fighting skills as well as confidence. Great base for other sports as well.

...He must learn the ways of the force...

Boy, a lot of internet heroes on this thread! I love how one sucker-punch ends the bullying forever instead of escalating the conflict.

* The reality is that most bullies become bullies because they are bigger and stronger than the other kids but they don't have the "game" to move up to the truly popular circles.

* The reality is that most schools develop a pecking order and bullies pick on the kids who are beneath them on the pecking order.

* And about the public school teacher: the fact of the matter is that teachers don't really like the passive socially awkward kids anymore than their peers do. The teachers prefer the bullies. My wife is a teacher who was bullied (she skipped a grade) and she'll be the first to admit it.

To the OP: some kids are very sensitive and will become targets. I suspect this is genetic and you yourself are sensitive and relatively passive. That's why the school administrators basically blew you off. They knew they could ignore you. But for the sake of the son you have to do something.

Start by getting the names of the bullies from your son. There must be a ringleader or two. Go to the teacher with the names. Give the teacher a fair chance. If that doesn't work, go back to the school admins. If that doesn't work, then (1) contact the local papers about the local school's indifference to bullying, and (2) start a parents advocacy group. Pass out fliers to recruit other parents. It's not just your son. Get organized. Put some real heat on the administration.

The teachers know that it happens but they don't want to get involved in a difficult situation, and they don't have a lot of empathy for the victims of bullying because those kids aren't their favorites. I wish it worked differently, but it doesn't. You have to change it and it won't be easy. Good luck.

you are the troll.... someone was asking a question, be nice with your answer or buzz off...Trolling bully!

I'm happy knowing that we've so moved on from such petty things, and when bullying does happen, it's obviously all Trump's fault.

umax610p8 wrote:

you are the troll.... someone was asking a question, be nice with your answer or buzz off...Trolling bully!

Welcome to LR!

Geez, there wasn't one good idea in this thread.

stuck with match.com wrote:

Somebody should sue you for being dumb enough to ask this question on a site full of bird chested runners who never defended in school.

Um, birds have almost their whole body mass in their chests and the ones that can't fly are even more dangerous. Are you sure that's the comparison you wanted to make?