The sad truth about our schools: They do not prepare us for real life. In Real life, if you are busted for harassing someone, you are fired from your job. You are given a restraining order. You are fined. But what is the unfunny truth about Jr. High and how does this relate to it?

When you're in school - you get away with it. You can harass away - all you get is a punishment that does nothing. IT is only under the correct circumstances that you are actually punished for harassing someone.

I was spat on, I have friends that were groped, I was harassed, I was even pissed on by a 9th grader. I was told that I was to just "Ignore them" and they would go away.

Ignoring a bully does not make the problem go away - When they are not punished, they continue to do it because they can get away with it. But when they ARE punished, they are not punished enough.

Suspension? It did nothing. Unless your parents actually did something to you, Suspension was just a break from school. Detention? Who does detention anymore? Take it from your parents...Detention did nothing. There were people who were in a state of near permanent detention, making them sit in a room for 30 minutes after school did nothing. Making them write "I will not do this" did nothing. It does not work on TV for the likes of Bart Simpson, it doesn't work here.


And there's always the favouring because no one has the balls to speak up - If I were not Caucasian and was spat on, then that would be racism. If I were pissed on and I were a girl, that'd be sexual harassment. If I were gay and I were groped, that'd either be a "Just ignore them" or a hate crime. But I am neither, I am a Caucasian male therefore I was told to "Just ignore them" and "Remove myself from the situation"

Removing yourself from the situation is a LOT easier if you aren't required by law to be close to a harasser because he's IN YOUR CLASS. Removing myself from the situation would require me to skip school, which is illegal. Or to drop from the class, and there is no way you can do that early in the semester.

But unfortunately, why do we not kick dozens of people out of schools each year for harassment the way people would if they were in the working society? Easy - where do they go? We have to take care of our children so they can learn this lesson. Oh but if we don't teach them, they'll wind up having a hard time finding a job after being fired for harassing a coworker. As it is true we are always learning, but why can't our children learn what harassment is until they wind up with a restraining order against them?

Of course what happens? Our Future Degenerates of America schools wind up becoming the new public schools while the Public Schools become the new private schools. If we kicked people out for harassment, My Jr. High school would be so empty I'd have my own locker. And in these schools, what happens? Would they learn? Would they finally learn their lesson to not harass people? Would they finally learn that if you do that, you get kicked out? I doubt it - there are people who are in ISS so many times, it doesnt' affect them at all.