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BeamStop23 t1_ja92ql6 wrote

Reply to comment by lotusvagabond in Student charged after bullied New Jersey school girl takes her own life by r4816

How did the superintendent allow her to get beat up. Seemed like security was swift and the school has no control over the Internet.

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xbnm t1_ja9xqbf wrote

If this assault was the first time she was mistreated by these kids, then you're right. But that is essentially never how it happens.

School can expel kids who don't stop torturing kids. They can contact child services and try to figure out why the bullies are lashing out so much, and whether intervention is needed there. School can confiscate phones during the day so that at least on school premises, at least the victim won't have to worry about being recorded.

But the most urgent thing is to separate bullies from their victims long term, hopefully by inconveniencing the bullies, not the victims, in that process. Clearly the school failed at that

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BeamStop23 t1_jaav861 wrote

  1. You are making a lot of assumptions. The father has never said she's been involved in multiple fights with this group at school if anything the opposite. His beef with the superintendent is that they suspended the bullies but he thinks if they were arrested somehow the student bystanders wouldn't have shared the videos.

  2. There's absolutely no way to ban cellphone use in schools short of having a prison like inspection system

  3. Everyone is or has been bullied. There's absolutely not enough money in the school system to manage what is thousands of teen students personal interactions both in person or online every single day including weekends. A typical prison is 4 to 1 staff. A highschool it's not uncommon to have 30-50 students per staff member. It's just literally impossible to handle. If the bully has developmental/aggression issues and is on a non-standard education (e.g IEP, 504, etc) they cannot be legally expelled. Other than that yes the students can be expelled and if your made-up theory that the same bully regularly assaulted her then they'd have been expelled. Even then she'd have just been bullied online which was actually the father's complaints. It wasn't the fight it was what was going on on social media. Truth is that if your child has a persistent bully, don't rely on the school it's not a daycare, or prison, and it's not a justice system. Seek retribution from law enforcement and a judge, you don't need an attorney to do this.

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