4th grader sued for bullying

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Joaquin Del Core said a bully targeted him all year, beat him up weekly and threatened to kill him. The boy's parents have filed a lawsuit on their son's behalf seeking $50,000 from the bully, the bully's parents and the Chicago-area elementary school.
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Read more: Illinois 4th-grader sues elementary school classmate for bullying

I'd be curious to see how this lawsuit turns out in court.
 
I know of a parent who almost sued a school last year for bullying but she dropped the case. Interesting. My parents could have won so much money by suing my jr high school for not taking action when I was bullied.
 
Bullying has been around forever- it's just that it's gaining more attention due to the media- I couldn't say if there is an actual increase- not without some sort of hard evidence or numbers.

Laws aren't gonna help, stronger or not. Kids are going to bully whether or not there are laws (I'd have to read up on these laws to see what they say- am curious).

Education, counseling and action IN the school starting at an early will help but I doubt it will eradicate it completely as there are many reasons why bullying happens.

I'd be curious to see how this turns out. I was bullied that young but I don't think it was serious enough to warrant a lawsuit.
 
DeafDucky said:
Bullying has been around forever- it's just that it's gaining more attention due to the media- I couldn't say if there is an actual increase- not without some sort of hard evidence or numbers.

Laws aren't gonna help, stronger or not. Kids are going to bully whether or not there are laws (I'd have to read up on these laws to see what they say- am curious).

Education, counseling and action IN the school starting at an early will help but I doubt it will eradicate it completely as there are many reasons why bullying happens.

I'd be curious to see how this turns out. I was bullied that young but I don't think it was serious enough to warrant a lawsuit.
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Yes ,that is true bullying been around forever but it mostly only happen during school hours . We have technology today that allow bullies to go after their victims 24/7 . The whole world can now see the bullying happen and the victim has no way off escaping it . And some kids sadly see only one way out and that is committing suicide .
 
Today nearly everyone is carrying a video camera on their phone so they can further humiliate their victim by posting it. And when they go viral the victim is further embarassed and the bully is met by outrage and gets harassed/death threats etc... A bunch of adult bullies from all over the world think they are justified in going after a child bully. Sad irony. It was simpler when things stayed local.
 
Konijnen said:
Today nearly everyone is carrying a video camera on their phone so they can further humiliate their victim by posting it. And when they go viral the victim is further embarassed and the bully is met by outrage and gets harassed/death threats etc... A bunch of adult bullies from all over the world think they are justified in going after a child bully. Sad irony. It was simpler when things stayed local.
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There was a case where someone posted a gay couple kissing and one of the young men commit suicide , the happen not too longer ago. It was very sad .
 
That is true- I didn't think of the technology angle when I wrote my post and it does make sense. (that said if I catch my nephew doing that sort of thing, he's getting a talking to- doubt it will happen though).

I shudder to think what my life would have been like if technology was around when I was still in school (to the end of High School)- computers didn't show up until late college. High school there wasn't outright bullying- more like the "clicque-y" sort of crap....subtle crap.
 
I hope the bullied victim will win. Getting bullied all year? Oh poor boy, shame on his school! He suffered too long. His mom got fired from her cafeteria job at that school. Obviously that was a retaliation by the school. *smh*
 
While I think this is great and maybe a good step in the right direction why do I get the feeling that this has a huge potential to turn into "Zero Tolerance" where a student gets suspended for carrying around or giving a friend an aspirin or advil, or even carrying their own legal prescriptions.
 
CrazyPaul said:
I hope the bullied victim will win. Getting bullied all year? Oh poor boy, shame on his school! He suffered too long. His mom got fired from her cafeteria job at that school. Obviously that was a retaliation by the school. *smh*
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Retaliation by the school, you say? I think you better re-think that.....
 
shel90 said:
I know of a parent who almost sued a school last year for bullying but she dropped the case. Interesting. My parents could have won so much money by suing my jr high school for not taking action when I was bullied.
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I'm sorry you had to go through that..
 
shel90 said:
I know of a parent who almost sued a school last year for bullying but she dropped the case. Interesting. My parents could have won so much money by suing my jr high school for not taking action when I was bullied.
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My niece that has Asperger's was bullied through whole 12 years in public school . I tried to get my sister to take legal actions b/c her daughter rights where violated but she and her husband never did that. My sister never bothers to finds what kind rights her daughter has or ask what kind help was there for her. This bugged the hell out of me.
 
Tousi said:
Retaliation by the school, you say? I think you better re-think that.....
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Why did they fire her?

Deveri Del Core, who works in the school's cafeteria, said she was fired just hours after she filed the suit. Handler is amending the lawsuit to include a charge of retaliatory discharge, he said.
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DeafDucky said:
While I think this is great and maybe a good step in the right direction why do I get the feeling that this has a huge potential to turn into "Zero Tolerance" where a student gets suspended for carrying around or giving a friend an aspirin or advil, or even carrying their own legal prescriptions.
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People have been in trouble for giving OTC painkillers to friends for years now. Kids die because they aren't allowed to carry their own inhalers (this is policy at many US schools too, not just Canadian ones) Boy with Asthma Dies After School Confiscates His Inhaler

My nephew's Epi-Pen is kept with his teacher, and the only reason that she has it is because he's a little child and he can't inject it himself anyway, he needs an adult to help him. As soon as he's old enough and has the dexterity to do it as well as the ability to recognize the symptoms in himself he will have it in his bag and a spare with the teacher, no matter what the "rules" are.
 
Calvin said:
Read more: Illinois 4th-grader sues elementary school classmate for bullying

I'd be curious to see how this lawsuit turns out in court.
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:laugh2:

Honestly, I kind of want them to win it...

Just because I think this would be initiative to make parents beat the snot out of their kids for being little douche bags! :thumb:

Too many parents hear their kids are being little ass tarts and bullying other kids and don't care. If they know they can be sued for large amounts of money, I bet that will stop it right there.
 
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