School ordered to pay 30,000 euros in damages in bullying case

thanks for your article sir. Nice job.

I’m glad that the court held the school and the administrators responsible and liable for actions on their premises. When children are in their care, adults must be responsible. Two years is a long time to allow a gang of terrorists to rule. Obviously, the same lesson is relevant to our adult society.

Even in America, some states and individual school districts are making laws to protect children from bullies and bullying. Here, we need new laws because so many administrators are cowards. They’re afraid they’ll be sued by parents who want to protect their little terrorists. Therefore, we need to required administrators to act and also to protect them from suits when they do act.

On an individual basis, parents must teach children how to face the real world in which they’ll meet bullies all their lives, even if the children are small and outnumbered. Sometimes, a child can handle a bully by himself, beginning with peaceful tactics and moving step-wise toward being more firm and eventually fighting to win. Or, depending on the situation, just get the fight over with the first time. Other times, adult help is needed.

As I show in my books of case studies, “How to Stop Bullies in their Tracks and “Parenting Bully-Proof Kids,” bullies are not all the same, but their patterns of behavior, their tactics, are the same. That’s why we can find ways to stop most of them.

Most children will naturally bully the weak or different. They must be taught, primarily by parents, if they’re going to learn to be more civilized. In addition to professional experience, I learned practical, pragmatic methods growing up in New York City and then watching our six children and their friends and enemies.

True bullies will take empathy, kindness and tolerance as weakness. They’ll think we’re easy prey. It will encourage them, like sharks, to attack us more. Bullies will show you how far you need to go to stop them. Get out of your comfort zone and stop them.

When children learn how to stop bullies in their tracks, they will develop strength of character, determination, resilience and skill. They’ll need these qualities to succeed in the real-world.

Please examine my website and blog (http://ww.BulliesBeGone.com).

Best wishes,
Ben