7-year-old bullied by students with teacher's approval

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Agencies/Emirates 247

7-year-old bullied by students with teacher's approval

$33,000 compensation given

By Agencies
Published Saturday, May 16, 2015

Mexico's Supreme Court ordered a private school on Friday to give $33,000 in compensation to a seven-year-old boy who was bullied by other students with a teacher's approval.

It was the first time that the court ruled on bullying, an issue that turned into national debate after a series of high-profile cases prompted President Enrique Pena Nieto to vow action last year.

The court said in a statement that its ruling establishes "specific recommendations for the government in order to identify, prevent and combat a phenomenon so harmful as bullying, at the national level."

Around 40 per cent of students reported being bullied in 2013, up from 30 per cent in 2011, according to the National Human Rights Commission.

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$33,000 compensation given

By Agencies
Published Saturday, May 16, 2015

Mexico's Supreme Court ordered a private school on Friday to give $33,000 in compensation to a seven-year-old boy who was bullied by other students with a teacher's approval.

It was the first time that the court ruled on bullying, an issue that turned into national debate after a series of high-profile cases prompted President Enrique Pena Nieto to vow action last year.

The court said in a statement that its ruling establishes "specific recommendations for the government in order to identify, prevent and combat a phenomenon so harmful as bullying, at the national level."

Around 40 per cent of students reported being bullied in 2013, up from 30 per cent in 2011, according to the National Human Rights Commission.

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[Zippyjuan]

1. Fines should be levied here

Good on them for fining the school. I am so tired to bigger people bullying others. These fines should be levied here. It happens all over the place, including the internet. We need to send a message to the bullies. There should be a program where the most heinous internet bullies are targeted. They need to have their internet privileges curtailed. They should be fined, if not put in jail for a weekend or two.

[Zippyjuan]

6. far too little

It's far too little. The internet has become the new bullying playground. Lots of hurtful words, especially on forums where teens participate. You only have to be 13 years old to be on a lot of forums. What if the kid is engaging an aggressive adult? IPs need to be registered and kept track of. Or, you need to be 18 to participate in a forum. I don't see how it is useful under the present system. Maybe people should have to put in a driver license number to join a forum. Somebody just checking a box could be anybody. You also have lots of perverts.

[Diclotican]

3. Judi Lynn

Judi Lynn

Far to little - just 33.000 dollar for being bullyed - and okayed by the teatchers no less - is far to little in my oppinion - I would have given the child far more money in retribution if i had been the jugde - as bullying is harmfull - even deadly in many cases - and have harmfull effects on a child, for the rest of his or her life... It is seldom if you have been bullied in school, you do not have wounds from the experience...

The school, should be fines extremely harsh - and that also for the teacher, who let it happend - a 40-100.000 dollar fine for the school - and for the teacher who let it happend is a start - and the fines should go as retribution for the kids educational needs elsehwere...

The only way to hurt a bully - is by hitting where it hurts - in this case it hurt when it goes into the "bottom line" - strict fining - and retributions for the ones who was bullied is the last we could do as grown ups...

Diclotican

[longship]

4. Yup! You are correct.

Unfortunately, when I was bullied in Jr. High School (8th and 9th grades) nobody stood up for me. My mother regularly went to the school office to beg that an end be put to it. Their answer was "Boys will be boys."

In my case that resulted in a broken jaw. Which made things much, much worse. And in spite of my parents' visits, it was always boys will be boys, instead of "maybe your son shouldn't be beat up every day in school." There were too few teachers who stood up for me, and the Asst Principal, Doc Flynn, ignored the whole affair. He is the one who told my parents that "boys will be boy"s after my fucking jaw was broken on his watch.

That is why I despise bullies and why I always back up those who are bullied.

People need to have their say, especially when they are being suppressed.

Regards.

[Diclotican]

7. longship

longship

I have experienced myself a lot of bullying - from 1 grade true 9th grade - well - the last year in school I was ostririchted to a degree, no one talked to me really - if it was not just to tell me how afoul I was... But then again I had moved and was kind of pending between where I lived - and where i was going to school - so I surived as I had space to recover between the battles... Not so much beating or fights - more words - who could hurt as much as any fist...

But yeah - I do remember - specially when I was smaller - how horrible bullying could be - I was not exactly any athlete - or fast in my mind when people was making fun of me - and it often resulted in me being rather angry - for the most past I was spewing heat out of my ears, red from top to toe - and afraid of what could happened next - and it often was worse - at one time 4-5 of the worst even ganged on me, trying to set my hair on fire - then thankfully my principal come around and was able to stop it - even if was not the same as the bullying was ending - rather it continued in other forms - and in 1 grade I even got suspended for a week because I trow a stone - and hit one of my bullies in the head - he just thumped down in the middle of the street (it was at a bus-stop) a lot of blood - two very angry parents, who blamed me for it - and I'm not sure if I got to school that day - I suspected I walked home - and just told I had being doing something wrong - My foster father got the call from the principal - about what I had being doing (according to the parents I had been violent and threatened with police) - M foster father understood something was wrong - and was able to get it out of me, what have happened - and then things got little out of hands - as my foster father kind of blow a fuse - and took me in the car - drove to the parents of the one I had thrown a stone in the head - asked med to just stay in the car - walked up and had a little conservation with the family - and the boy... After 30 minutes he came out - I was kind of asking what have happened - he just said - I think it Will be okay now... And we drove home... He then called my principal - and had a long phone communication with him - at least I believed it to be.. And they kind of agreed I could came back to the school after the week - mostly because they believed me to be punished enough for the stone trowing - and because the facts of the matter - was that they had being picking on me for days - weeks before I exploded... After a week of suspension I was back on school - and for a little while no one dared to bully me - mostly because they know I could get dangrous... But from then on - I was bullied in other forms - not Fycical to much - as mental - and I had to use a lot of resources to just get true the school day at times... It was not a good time for me.. In most of 3th and 4th grade I was kind of in a "special school" - as my anger was out of control and even the teacher I had had problems getting me calm, and she was a trained teacher who have had her share of problematic children - And I learned somehow - to not let my anger got the best of me always - even if I had my share of problems in 5th and 6th grade - not to say in high school when it was on a new school, with new pupils and teachers and the rest... But by 9th grade I was living a distance, in another county, even if I was pending between the school, and where I lived - so I had some recess from all the bullying - and I survived somehow 9th grade... But I was hurt, deeply - and it took years to get out of the shell - the fortress I had build on the outside to protect me from bullying - it took years and years to make it less than it was - and even today I get hurt by things that others, with another experience would shake off as nothing... And I think Middle school, could have been a more comfortable experience for me - If I had not had this fortress around me - afraid of making to mutch contact with the rest of the school... But I got out of that, with fairly good grades at least..

Diclotican

[Zippyjuan]

5. how about the teachers?

I would fine the teachers. If they were particularly neglectful, then charges should be brought. They were, after all, entrusted for the safety of these children.