What Are Your kids Really Doing When They Go To School?

We see the news broardcasts, the informative documentaries, even the youtube commercials about it. But most of the time our common thought is that is not my kid. But how often do you really know what your kids really doing when they go to school. How they treat their fellow students. Most of us would say that our child is an excellent student, very well liked, a real nice person, a popular student. But if you asked the teachers, the yard duties, the security gaurds, the principle, etc. You might get that answer, and sometimes that answer would not even remotely resemble that image you carry in your head and heart. They could and often do say that they are mean, they tease and torrement the other students, they are spiteful, etc. In other words a the child is a BULLY! Now I'm not saying that this always the case but more and more lately it tends to be. I was a person that quite often was on the reciveing end of the bullies treatment. And speaking as the mother of a child that is a "loner" I worry for the day when she becomes the victim of the bullies, as I was before her. The thing is when the bullies escalate their behavior that is when the police become involved. The thing about that is the escalation in behavior usually leads to someone getting hurt. Either it's the bully who has taken the "treatment" too far. OR it's the victime trying to get a little of their own back. In either case it's BAD! We as parents need to take an active role in the lives of our kids so that the end isn't some hospital, or prison, or a box. Schools say that a student is under their protection and authority from the time we drop them off in the morning, till they walk through their door at home at the end of the day. If that is the case then they need to enforce that power, and protect those they know have a history of being bullied. And they need to extend tighter punishments and make sure that the bullies don't an oppertunity to exercise their might. Most of all PARENTS get involved. Make yourself a pain in their collective butts by asking them about their day, who their friends are at school, and go to school with them, I gaurentee that no kid is going to bully another with their mom or dad standing right there. Most of all don't blindly think that the way your kid is at home and how they treat you is how they act at school and treat others. Be friends to your kids but be parents FIRST!