Some schools are more like Gladiator training camps in the series Spartacus.
A bad element, clique or even gangs may have taken root and be shaking down students for protection money or providing drugs.
All your hard parenting work and great family environment, church, and manners may cause your child to stand out to these hoodlums, as a good apple.
Maybe the teachers know what is going on but the students are so big and the legal consequences of the student’s violence towards teaching staff are so little that the administration, from top to bottom, simply turns a blind eye to these circumstances.
Or it may be more of a one on one, with jealousy at the heart of the offender’s motivation.
Peer group dynamics of aggression on the Sports field and later hormone laden arguments in the locker room are the stuff that Bullies live for.
Whether its a shakedown for lunch money, a problem over a relationship or simply a parking space related feud, schools are not the safe havens for our children we all wished that they were.
To me, in addition to obtaining justice for you and your child, a added benefit of making a righteous claim against the School Board, the School or other responsible entity is the possibility of change so that this does not happen to another student.
