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Oculus Spirit [97677]
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Pajama day at school
Jun 4, 2019, 6:12 AM
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Ok today is like the third pajama day this year. Son is in 4th grade and refuses to participate. He says no one does. I'm relieved. But where in the hell did this idea come from? I used to literally have nightmares about going to school in pajamas.
Son of has a favorite t-shirt that's too small. Yet he insist on wearing it to school. I'm like fine. Wear it thinking he'd get picked on and stop wearing it. Nope. Then son says no one ever picks on anyone at school and I'm like ###? There is a place and usefulness for bullying.
Anyway evidently it's a different world than when I was a kid. Not sure how these kids will turn out. But peer pressure and bullying have a place if for no other reason than making you care about how you dress. You certainly have to deal with it in the real world. Guess when I'm 80 I'll see how this all turns out.
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It’s not for the kids
Jun 4, 2019, 7:09 AM
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It’s an excuse for the teachers to dress like slobs.
Maybe your kid is the bully and all the other kids are too scared to tell him his shirt is too small?
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Oculus Spirit [97677]
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If so he hides it well.***
Jun 4, 2019, 8:36 AM
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^^^this rightcheer^^^
Jun 4, 2019, 11:04 AM
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I frikkin' hate it because my two youngest use it as an excuse to go in as disheveled as possible. Like they don't have to brush their teeth if they're going to school like they are in bed.
You're right. It's for lardbucket teachers' to be comfortable.
Disclosure: Mrs. PAW works in a school.
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Re: school's been out like 2-3 weeks here.....
Jun 4, 2019, 7:49 AM
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too many snow days your way or something?
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Oculus Spirit [97677]
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Yep. Some hurricane that wasn't that bad where they
Jun 4, 2019, 8:26 AM
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Evacuated half the state for a week..... That one. Schools closed for five days to be shelters that were never close to needed. That one. Oh and one snow day where a flake never fell.
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All-In [48963]
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Yep, it's weird...
Jun 4, 2019, 8:34 AM
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my oldest son wears practically the same outfit to school every #### day. Gym shorts and a Clemson natty t-shirt. The neck is stretched out on the t-shirt because he wears it at least twice a week. Then one day he'll throw on a Johnny Cash concert t with jeans and actually look like he gives a ####. Next day, back to slob.
As far as I can tell it doesn't cause him any embarrassment. But if I'm playing music too loud when I drop him at school he's completely mortified.
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Kids today have it too easy. My Dad dropped me and a buddy
Jun 4, 2019, 8:36 AM
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off at school in a Chevy S-10 with cig smoke pouring out of the windows. He would play the music really loud, oldies station, and serenade us when we would open the doors. Keep the windows rolled down as he sang to us when we ran into Junior High. I was mortified at the time, makes me laugh now.
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Oculus Spirit [97677]
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Oh get this. It's a regular and evidently common thing for
Jun 4, 2019, 8:40 AM
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Parents to come and eat lunch with their kids. For no reason. Some parents do this nearly every day. My parents came to eat lunch with me at school exactly zero times. Ever.
And some parents walk their kids to their classroom up to third grade. ###?
Like I said when I'm 80 we'll see where this goes.
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That's sick. Probably bordering on child abuse
Jun 4, 2019, 9:16 AM
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Those are going to be the most socially ###### up kids. 100% chance they'll be diagnosed with 'anxiety' sooner than later.
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I went and had lunch w/ my kids 2 Fridays ago for no reason
Jun 4, 2019, 2:39 PM
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other than my daughter had asked me to, and i had the day 'off', so I didn't really have a good excuse not to. She finishes 5th grade tomorrow, and that's only the 2nd time I've done it tho....hopefully it's not 'allowed' in middle school
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Wow, you had it easy.
Jun 4, 2019, 8:44 AM
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I walked 7 miles to school barefoot over broken glass uphill all the way dragging cinder blocks chained around my neck. On the way back, I was chased by ravenous wolves through burning desert sands wearing barbed wire underwear. When I got home, I still had to cut the grass every day and milk the cats.
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We had tenet farmers to do that work.***
Jun 4, 2019, 8:44 AM
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We did too....at first.
Jun 4, 2019, 8:46 AM
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Then, the velociraptors came and ate them all.
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The 60's were a helluva time, huh?***
Jun 4, 2019, 8:54 AM
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You have no clue
Jun 4, 2019, 10:49 AM
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what dropping acid and trying to kill velociraptors while listening to Ten Years After on eight track is like.
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don't know why, but "milk the cats" made me literally LOL
Jun 4, 2019, 6:03 PM
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that's a very interesting visual...
By the way, you had it easy. We were too poor for pencils and paper, so I had to hack ice blocks out of a frozen lake, tote them to school, and take notes with a hammer and chisel. Then run back home and study before they melted...
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Oculus Spirit [80999]
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Our middle school bus ride was a close experience to
Jun 4, 2019, 9:51 AM
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what Abu Gharib was like. Add to that the potential race war that was on the verge of breaking out at any moment, and it was an excellent learning and growth environment.
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LOL....the bus ride.
Jun 4, 2019, 9:57 AM
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Every DAY at Beck Middle School was a veritable race war. Amirite Lakebum1®?
Now they've moved the school out of the ghetto and made it a magnet "academy". The pussification of America continues.
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Just LOL at talking race wars and NOT being from
Jun 4, 2019, 10:01 AM
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York Junior High School
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*Yoke****
Jun 4, 2019, 10:03 AM
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I bet they don't even have to go to the bathroom in teams
Jun 4, 2019, 10:13 AM
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anymore for safety. Really sad we raise children to be this soft. I really think that kind of environment develops communication skills you simply won't get anywhere else.
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Younger son is meticulous...
Jun 4, 2019, 8:37 AM
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about doing his hair and making sure he has on some cologne before school. He's got a girlfriend and usually three other girls showing interest. But then he'll come downstairs in jeans that are practically jorts and two sizes too small in the waist.
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was really hoping this thread would be about
Jun 4, 2019, 8:44 AM
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Teachers in lingerie.
Say la vee
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You can rest easy, good sir.
Jun 4, 2019, 9:48 AM
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There will be plenty of bullying, clique formations, and irrational socioeconomic segmentation in middle school. Kids are just late bloomers these days.
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Oculus Spirit [80999]
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Middle school? I thought you were talking about work
Jun 4, 2019, 9:52 AM
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Its kinda the same.
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I really wish some kids would bully my son about the
Jun 4, 2019, 10:36 AM
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goofy-ass things he does and says, being a little bitch sometimes, etc....i get in trouble when I do it, not that he listens to me anyway
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Oculus Spirit [97677]
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Egg Zachary my point. Son of is not going to listen to me
Jun 4, 2019, 10:54 AM
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half asleep at 6am when I tell him his shirt's too small. So I let him wear it. Kids tease him because it's too small. He comes home, and trashes the shirt and wears shirts that fit (he has at least 10). But I'm NOT getting the positive reinforcement I need from kids these days in raising my son. I am under the assumption that if he does something stupid at school, or whatever, he WILL BE CRITICIZED and then respond accordingly. This is the job of the KIDS at the school.
I walked in there one morning before classes started, but after dropping son of off. There were literally hundreds of kids sitting out in the hallway. BEFORE school. So you would expect the place to be loud, kids laughing, having fun, running around, whatever. BUT NO. It was like the freaking twilight zone. 100+ kids just sitting in the hallways, either reading, playing something on an electronic device, drawing, whatever. NOT ONE KID spoke. No conversations. No cutting up. No laughing. No yelling. No social interaction. Just nothing. It was creepy really.
Anyway, when I'm 80 I'll see where this all leads. Can't be good.
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There is a place and usefulness for bullying?
Jun 4, 2019, 10:55 AM
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there is not many stupider statements than this on this bored
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^^^ got bullied in school***
Jun 4, 2019, 11:33 AM
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Man, I did, and it SUCKED out loud. We aint talking about
Jun 4, 2019, 12:02 PM
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being picked on, I'm talking about being real deal bullied. It was like 3rd or 4th grade and I still remember it. Yall don't want your kid to be bullied, you just want his friends to make fun of them enough to spark change. I got over mine pretty quick, mainly because the guys couldn't pass whatever grade we were in so they got left behind, but some kids never get over that stuff.
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I was bullied by two cousins in middle school.
Jun 4, 2019, 12:06 PM
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teachers wouldn't do anything so my dad told me to fight back. So I did. Jumped over the table in the lunch room and handled business.
Assistant Principal called my dad in after I got suspended and told him what happened. Dad said "Yeah I know, I told him to" AP was shocked and told him we don't handle business like that here. He then caught an ear full from my father.
Wasn't bullied again.
Both ended up on the hard stuff for many many years. One has turned things around for his family, the other is still on the smack.
I still won.
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Oculus Spirit [79401]
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You gotta put that doubt in their head that you might just
Jun 4, 2019, 12:15 PM
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be crazier than they are. People don't mess with people they think are crazier than them.
I feel like the hard part these days would be teaching your kid to be sly about revenge, and not get caught. "Stab him with a pencil, but make sure there are no witnesses."
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If you want someone to run away from you, take off all your
Jun 4, 2019, 1:52 PM
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clothes and start screaming.
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Oculus Spirit [97677]
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And this is the utility of bullying.
Jun 4, 2019, 12:20 PM
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Teaches you to stand up for yourself.
And bullies usually grow up to be losers. Ran into one a few years ago in Best Buy. He was selling TV's. I actually wanted to buy one that day but left and came back during a different shift. Prior to his Best Buy career he was a bowling hustler, just like in the movie KingPin. His dad made his money selling #### (pre-internet days).
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Oculus Spirit [97677]
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I was bullied as a kid a bunch. One kid was worse than the
Jun 4, 2019, 12:14 PM
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rest though. He was bigger than me, tall for his age I guess, and was a real jerk. He'd push me down, trip me, kick me, all kinds of abuse. This went on for literally a year or two.
Anyway we are all playing one day, my friends and I, and the bullies came by. Started in as usual. I caught it the worst as usual. Well, I finally had enough and just waited for the inevitable to happen. Took all of maybe 10 minutes. Bully pushed me down. As he was standing over me laughing I put a heel into his nuts. He keeled over. I got up and kicked him in the face as he was bent over holding his nuts. He flew back and fell to the ground blood gushing from his nose. 2 more kicks to the ribs and I walked off.
He went home crying to his parents. My parents NEVER got a call from his parents. He NEVER bothered me or my friends again. No one ever picked on me again in the neighborhood.
He and I both learned a valuable lesson that day.
At school (not in the neighborhood so different kids and bullies) I used to get picked on a lot. 7th grade I tried out for football and I was on a mission. Coach placed me at linebacker. I loved it. I LAID out everyone I hit, and the ones who picked on me in the past, I laid out the worst. I was known for hitting hard, and those former bullies ended up respecting that. Some even became my friends later in high school. From 7th grade on I was never picked on again at school.
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Statement(s) is plural, therefore it should be
Jun 4, 2019, 11:50 AM
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"there are not many stupider statements than this on this bored". Actually bored is spelled board in this context.
See, I bullied you. You bullied me by calling me stupid.
See where this goes....
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That is bullying?***
Jun 4, 2019, 12:01 PM
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Is today.***
Jun 4, 2019, 12:14 PM
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Oculus Spirit [78831]
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yet I didn't call you stupid
Jun 4, 2019, 2:51 PM
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I said your statement was stupid. It's slightly different
Then there is the story of the kid that gets bullied and then offs him/herself. Not every bully situation causes the kid to stand up and fight back.
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That is the ultimate form of self critiquing***
Jun 4, 2019, 3:18 PM
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I had lunch with my son on his birthday.
Jun 4, 2019, 6:34 PM
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He selected some friends and ee went outside and found some picnic tables. After the kids are they began to run around playing tag until one teacher came up and told us no playing during lunch. I was embarrassed because the kids hot in a little trouble under my watch. Kinda funny now though...
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