Start holding the parents of bullies accountable for things like this more often.
Voting for trump/his goons is basically like pulling the trigger yourself. Blood is on the hands of everyone that did nothing
It’s inspiring to see people that young know what is right and what is wrong.
I’m expecting to see quite a few comments of, “the student didn’t die due to bullying!” As if going to the hospital and the bullying is NBD sadly.
Go kids!
Some of these are the stupid zero tolerance policies that punish the victim as well, yes?
Oklahoma students walk out to protest bullying policies after trans student’s death
FTFY 🙂
As they should
Imagine living in a deep red state and having a child who is atypical in any way.
Conservatives have no interest in making schools safe for children. They want it full of guns, bullies, and hazing. They don’t want children to eat or learn. American conservatives want children in factories and overnight graveyard shifts. Their words killed a child. They spew words of hatred and loathing endlessly and then kids end up dead. Republicans have no right to be in any form of power or authority. They are horrible people for killing children like this. Hatred and guns. The two things conservatives cling to for every election.
I’m torn, because on the one hand it’s good to see someone doing something and it provides some degree of hope for the future, but on the other this isn’t who should be/is responsible here. They shouldn’t have had to do this in the first place. The school’s attempt to quiet them with the marking them absent thing also smells of corruption.
Make sure to upvote and click the link so people can know Nex.
What is the latest on the bullies? No doubt they’re ostracized at school. Last I read the school said her death wasn’t caused by the beating. Which is total bs.
The good news: Everyone is taking notice
The bad news: A lot of those kids are just in it for the day off
Because the bloody reality is that if society is willing to dismiss any child’s death from bullying, then bullies can claim that reason as justification to go after every other child around them and know they can push it that far without consequence.
This is an issue of self preservation for any kid that doesn’t fit the model and the people around them that love them.
My son asked to leave our school district and go to another school, a Catholic school that cost us more than we could really afford, because of bullying from other students. These bullies were actually nominated for citizenship awards and praised constantly by staff. I didn’t know the extent to which my son was bullied until years later. I wish he had been honest and told me exactly what happened so I could go back to the school and deal with it. I don’t blame him, I know how hard it is since I was bullied too. But these schools are either blind to it all, ignore it or outwardly support it. It’s absolutely insane.
Good
Tragic but good luck legislating bullying out of existence. Teenagers are assholes.
Ugh, so difficult to watch them alive and seeming well now that they are gone from this realm. So effin sad.
Good for the students.
I’ve been saying for years that schools need to kick the bullies out as quickly as possible to prevent tragedies like this.
“the school acknowledged the planned walkout and said it supported students’ right to demonstrate but that students doing so would be marked absent from class, barring written permission from parents.”
Wow this is so fucking cruel. Kids are walking out to protest bullying and what does the school do? Theatened them and anyone who might like to join them with punishment. Theyre fucking bullying the kids walking out in protest of bullying, like how fucking thick headed can get.
“and is communicated in a way that would disrupt the school’s educational mission.”
“or insult or demean “any student or group of students” in a way that disrupts the school’s educational mission.”
Notice how the language of the bullying policy is qualified with “in a way that disrupts the school”. So if another student insults or demeans others in a way that doesnt disrupt the school its a ok? That tells me the policy is meant to protect the school not the students.
I detest republicans and Christians for this.
well i mean what could the school do? ask the students parents to take responsibility instead of them? (/s)
Republicans literally endorse bullying.
Where were these students before?
Walk out and register to vote….., and then VOTE. FFS
If the threat of you classmate shooting up a school isn’t enough to get kids not to bully, than nothing is….
Aside from simply growing older and hopefully out of it.
Yes punishments should exist for it. Yes we should teach people not to. But we should also teach people how to deal with shit in a sensible way.
Guess I’m mainly ranting about the zero bully concept. Like, bullying is innate. Simple as that.
40 students out of 3,000
Talk about a sensationalist headline
Free day off ! Had nothing to do with being trans and she/he even said they instigated it. Lets just fly on the wings of bullshit even more.. lol.
based
Also this happened because Oklahoma passed a bill where trans kids had to go to the bathroom that matches their sex assigned at birth, yet even when they did that they got fucking beat up by students and later died.
It’s good to see young people stand up for decency and against bullying, but it would be nice if they took a moment to reflect before demanding the perfect at the expense of the very very good.
Their demand that Al Franken leave the Senate because he misbehaved a decade earlier on a USO tour when he was making a living as a comedian didn’t do a thing to keep a now convicted sexual predator from becoming POTUS, mostly because that penchant to demand perfection kept 74,000 Dems from voting for Hillary. If you demand all your candidates be “Caesar’s Wife” while the other side can and does elect David Duke in a fatsuit, it will NOT improve our society
This will all stop when u know what happens
Only way we stop
Nex was a member of my tribe. We don’t have a word for goodbye, we say “Chi Pisa La Chike” It mean ‘tll we meet again.
Chi Pisa La Chike young one.. may wherever you are be better than the place you left.
I hope the kids who did this are feeling the social pressures in the worst ways possible. The rest of their school-attending lives should be absolute hell. Longer would be better but they won’t be locked up with other kids forever
“HURRR DURRR KIDS JUST WANTED THE DAY OFF” ~ what idiots say
Cops going to use live rounds for this protest?
Massive respect to every single one of them. Just gotta survive one more election, and the future is looking bright.
The kids parents should have taken the young person out of school or put the person in a private school. They also should be held accountable!
Republicans are disgusting. MAGA in particular.
Everyone is entitled to live their life how they wish to live it.
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Start holding the parents of bullies accountable for things like this more often.
Voting for trump/his goons is basically like pulling the trigger yourself. Blood is on the hands of everyone that did nothing
It’s inspiring to see people that young know what is right and what is wrong.
I’m expecting to see quite a few comments of, “the student didn’t die due to bullying!” As if going to the hospital and the bullying is NBD sadly.
Go kids!
Some of these are the stupid zero tolerance policies that punish the victim as well, yes?
Oklahoma students walk out to protest bullying policies after trans student’s death
FTFY 🙂
As they should
Imagine living in a deep red state and having a child who is atypical in any way.
Conservatives have no interest in making schools safe for children. They want it full of guns, bullies, and hazing. They don’t want children to eat or learn. American conservatives want children in factories and overnight graveyard shifts. Their words killed a child. They spew words of hatred and loathing endlessly and then kids end up dead. Republicans have no right to be in any form of power or authority. They are horrible people for killing children like this. Hatred and guns. The two things conservatives cling to for every election.
I’m torn, because on the one hand it’s good to see someone doing something and it provides some degree of hope for the future, but on the other this isn’t who should be/is responsible here. They shouldn’t have had to do this in the first place. The school’s attempt to quiet them with the marking them absent thing also smells of corruption.
Make sure to upvote and click the link so people can know Nex.
What is the latest on the bullies? No doubt they’re ostracized at school. Last I read the school said her death wasn’t caused by the beating. Which is total bs.
The good news: Everyone is taking notice
The bad news: A lot of those kids are just in it for the day off
ETA: [There’s a rally](https://www.newson6.com/story/65dc1069542826064c2edc3d/supporters-of-nex-benedict-rally-outside-owasso-high-school-district-acknowledges-student-walkout-plans?fbclid=IwAR1zamGcBMpB6UC8WW8Y7uwtoI84sAyyUs_qlH14DcmP71seV0y7P7CfbXk) outside the school that the kids walking out were supposed to attend, and instead a shitload of kids didn’t even show up to school. If you think all those kids in OWASSO, OKLA-FUCKING-HOMA are leaving school because they care about trans rights, you need a reality check.
Because the bloody reality is that if society is willing to dismiss any child’s death from bullying, then bullies can claim that reason as justification to go after every other child around them and know they can push it that far without consequence.
This is an issue of self preservation for any kid that doesn’t fit the model and the people around them that love them.
My son asked to leave our school district and go to another school, a Catholic school that cost us more than we could really afford, because of bullying from other students. These bullies were actually nominated for citizenship awards and praised constantly by staff. I didn’t know the extent to which my son was bullied until years later. I wish he had been honest and told me exactly what happened so I could go back to the school and deal with it. I don’t blame him, I know how hard it is since I was bullied too. But these schools are either blind to it all, ignore it or outwardly support it. It’s absolutely insane.
Good
Tragic but good luck legislating bullying out of existence. Teenagers are assholes.
Ugh, so difficult to watch them alive and seeming well now that they are gone from this realm. So effin sad.
Good for the students.
I’ve been saying for years that schools need to kick the bullies out as quickly as possible to prevent tragedies like this.
“the school acknowledged the planned walkout and said it supported students’ right to demonstrate but that students doing so would be marked absent from class, barring written permission from parents.”
Wow this is so fucking cruel. Kids are walking out to protest bullying and what does the school do? Theatened them and anyone who might like to join them with punishment. Theyre fucking bullying the kids walking out in protest of bullying, like how fucking thick headed can get.
“and is communicated in a way that would disrupt the school’s educational mission.”
“or insult or demean “any student or group of students” in a way that disrupts the school’s educational mission.”
Notice how the language of the bullying policy is qualified with “in a way that disrupts the school”. So if another student insults or demeans others in a way that doesnt disrupt the school its a ok? That tells me the policy is meant to protect the school not the students.
I detest republicans and Christians for this.
well i mean what could the school do? ask the students parents to take responsibility instead of them? (/s)
Republicans literally endorse bullying.
Where were these students before?
Walk out and register to vote….., and then VOTE. FFS
If the threat of you classmate shooting up a school isn’t enough to get kids not to bully, than nothing is….
Aside from simply growing older and hopefully out of it.
Yes punishments should exist for it. Yes we should teach people not to. But we should also teach people how to deal with shit in a sensible way.
Guess I’m mainly ranting about the zero bully concept. Like, bullying is innate. Simple as that.
40 students out of 3,000
Talk about a sensationalist headline
Free day off ! Had nothing to do with being trans and she/he even said they instigated it. Lets just fly on the wings of bullshit even more.. lol.
based
Also this happened because Oklahoma passed a bill where trans kids had to go to the bathroom that matches their sex assigned at birth, yet even when they did that they got fucking beat up by students and later died.
It’s good to see young people stand up for decency and against bullying, but it would be nice if they took a moment to reflect before demanding the perfect at the expense of the very very good.
Their demand that Al Franken leave the Senate because he misbehaved a decade earlier on a USO tour when he was making a living as a comedian didn’t do a thing to keep a now convicted sexual predator from becoming POTUS, mostly because that penchant to demand perfection kept 74,000 Dems from voting for Hillary. If you demand all your candidates be “Caesar’s Wife” while the other side can and does elect David Duke in a fatsuit, it will NOT improve our society
This will all stop when u know what happens
Only way we stop
Nex was a member of my tribe. We don’t have a word for goodbye, we say “Chi Pisa La Chike” It mean ‘tll we meet again.
Chi Pisa La Chike young one.. may wherever you are be better than the place you left.
I hope the kids who did this are feeling the social pressures in the worst ways possible. The rest of their school-attending lives should be absolute hell. Longer would be better but they won’t be locked up with other kids forever
“HURRR DURRR KIDS JUST WANTED THE DAY OFF” ~ what idiots say
Cops going to use live rounds for this protest?
Massive respect to every single one of them. Just gotta survive one more election, and the future is looking bright.
The kids parents should have taken the young person out of school or put the person in a private school. They also should be held accountable!
Republicans are disgusting. MAGA in particular.
Everyone is entitled to live their life how they wish to live it.
Party of small government my ass.