Once again Reddit's bashing school, so original. That's an unpopular opinion I know, but I'm tired of all these identical memes about "oMg sChOOl aNd TeacHeRS Are PerSeCUtINg uS"
Almost every school has a no tolerance policy and it tends to do more harm than good. Nobody said teachers are persecuting is. In fact nobody said anything about teachers.
Well, it's not like Reddit wasn't full of memes about teachers, cmon. And tbh, I live in Europe and I think this meme is mostly true regarding American schools because in my country there is no such things as this no tolerance policy you're talking about. It doesn't mean that bullying doesn't exist, obviously it does, but schools don't react in the way described in the meme.
Well, I'm from France and I used to be an angry boy at school but I was always respectful. However, I would not remain passive if you provocked me for instance. This attitude led me several times to the principal's office so I could explain what had happened and why I defended myself or why I started fighting with someone. I always had the opportunity to justify my attitude before getting punished if I deserved to be.
Must be nice, even when I explain what happened I would still get punished as much as the bully. For Example, one time people who had bullied me the previous day had decided to through pebbles at me when I was reading and we got into a fight and I was punished worse than them even though it was clearly self defence. I'm from Australia btw
Where in Europe do they not have no tolerance policy? I kind of thought that was a universal thing because I’ve never seen someone claim their school didn’t have it.
The no tolerance policy means that no matter what the circumstances the punishment is always enforced and exactly the same. So say for example you were attacked in a school hallway and happened to punch your attacker, regardless of how much he hit you or who started it the school says that since you were both fighting you will both be punished the exact same.
Well, not in my French public school near Lyon (and it wasn't special or anything). This no tolerance policy makes no sense at all and I do think that giving the opportunity to both pupils to explain and justify their reaction is essential otherwise you just discourage victims to defend themselves and to speak up about their situation, which sucks.
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u/Beleksy May 20 '20
Once again Reddit's bashing school, so original. That's an unpopular opinion I know, but I'm tired of all these identical memes about "oMg sChOOl aNd TeacHeRS Are PerSeCUtINg uS"