I believe this man did the right thing. Someone needs to take a stand and he did. The sissy talk will do absolutely nothing, bullies need to get a strong warning. I think this is absurd to focus on the bullies reaction of fear and criminally charge protective father, who did not physically attack anyone. The father and his child are the victims, the father has a right to protect his family!

Hear hear!

Damn right! Waiting and hoping for someone else to protect YOUR child is complete lunacy. The school failed so he had to step in.

I mostly agree with your comment. But disagree with the last sentence. I believe this is exactly the kind of role model his daughter needs. I hope she feels that her father is her hero and I hope she will take away the lesson that she must stand up for herself. Unfortunately the bullies will learn a lesson that all they have to do is shift the blame and play victims after their violent behavior, and since no one really condemned their behavior they will continue on.

Sorry, the 13 year old who hits another and puts condoms on the heads of others NEED to learn a better behavior. Obviously sissy talk does not work.

Violence, while abhorrent, is the only language some people (including kids) understand. At 13 years of age I was getting my ass kicked regularly by a group of bullies in the greater Boston area. I would have loved my father to step in. He gave me a 2 x 4 and told me to deal with it like he had to when he was a kid. I never did. I just ran until we finally moved. Nothing like laying on the ground being kicked by five or six twelve to fourteen year old boys.
I hear the girls bathrooms can be rather dangerous as well.

A role model can be completely evil.

I am with you, treewolf39!

it is hard for some parents to see the wrong their child does. others just don't care.

True, but what bothers me the most is the attitude that this man had no right to protect his child. The media should be blamed for representing the bullies and their parents as victims. This is very wrong.

Sad isn't it? What's a parent to do? The 'court of public opinion' fades with the next news cycle. We will all just move along. But, I hope the school takes it further and investigates, what pushed this father to feel the need to protect his son? Bullies are not victims. Were they bullies? If they have footage of the father on the bus, they should have footage of the bullies on the bus?

I'm with you on this one mft

Thanks.

I hear you!

middle schoolers can be one of the MOST criminally inclined age groups on the planet

She has cerebral palsy so she is WEAK. I hate people who pick on the handicapped I could care less if they are 13 or 30.

He has a daughter with cerebral palsy and a boy at school fought her?
That man showed remarkable restraint.
Sure there were other options available for him to take, but he can't be blames especially if there were a group of kids bullying her. Besides, they're in middle school, not 3rd grade. They should know better. I knew children with physical and mental handicaps at the middle school I went to, and no one bullied them or tried to fight them.

That boys mother who is "beside herself with anger" needs to worry about the kind of mother she is to raise a son who bullies a handicapped girl.

I don't agree. I think a father has a right to speak up against other student's bullying his daughter, especially when the schools do nothing. If those little punks were afraid of her dad, they might think twice before messing with the next kid, and I hope they will. Dad should have constrained the explicatives, but geez, your avitar is exactly the character I was thinking of when I first read this. Middle school kids had to be the inspiration behind his character.

If she had cerebral palsy, then I understand why the dad did that. Someone else should have stood up for her long before that. That bus driver is an asshole. Now that I know that girl was handicapped, those kids deserved to be scared shitless by an adult.

you're probably right about the inspiration for old Alex. Picking on a handicapped girl is almost as bad as some of the stuff Alex does in "A Clockwork Orange". I didn't realize the girl was handicapped when I initially responded to this though. That totally changes things in my mind. I'm on the dad's side now. Those little turds should be permanently kicked off the bus at a minimum

maybe it was

Ultimate. You can be suspended from the bus, I found that out when I cussed out my bus driver. SHE started it, so I didn't get suspended for cussing but some BS she made up.

That's why you still do whatever it takes and take care of your own.... fuck them all!

be the bully or be the bitch

Why not just be a nice person and don't bother anyone?

+^'d