School Violence

[Lich king]

I usually go find the people who piss me off and beat the shit out of them on the last day of school......does anyone else do this?

[juneloveslotr]

Can't really saw I've ever done that. I'm not that prone to violence.

[Pieman]

I've only ever been on the receiving end of school violence, and the last time was years ago.

[Ziggy Stardust]

I beat the shit out of people during school. When I was growing up I was the smallest so of course I got messed about with a lot. It's given me a bit of the complex. There are lots of people smaller than me in school, so I mess with them all the time. It is a social handicap- who would want to be my friend if I'm annoying them or punching them?

[Torg]

I find that people at my school are generally inferior to me and so not worth getting angry at. Arrogance is helpful at times.

[Silfedac]

I don't hit people, but I used to kick them in the shins.

I do, however, annoy the living piss out of them at every possible opportunity.

[Pieman]

Don't we all, Silf, don't we all?

Well, no, but you know what I mean.

[Ziggy Stardust]

Wait, in Ohio people's piss is ALIVE?
Odd bunch, are Ohioans.

[Silfedac]

Every morning is a new battle.

[Torg]

We have a similar problem here.

It's a different kind of battle, though.

[Ziggy Stardust]

Ours has throwing nachos and buckshot!

[Mystery Fish]

I just take my anger out through violence on people in videogames, but not in real life (screw you, Jack Thompson!). Either NPCs or through PvP.
It's my therapy.

I was banned from all psychiatric clinics long ago.

[juneloveslotr]

Video games are the better way to deal with violent ergs.

I was beaten up at school once. Came home with bruised ribs. The teacher was fired after that sense it happened in her classroom with her there and she didn't do anything about it.

[Lich king]

dont you mean "since"?

[Ziggy Stardust]

Lich, you don't get to correct June's grammar- you knew what she meant, and she knew what she meant, so it doesn't matter what word she used. 
That totally slurps for your teacher, June!

[Drakey]

slurps more for her than for her teacher, who, let's not forget, sat there and watched while one of her students was beaten severely enough to have bruised ribs. I'm picturing her sitting there with popcorn, taking bets.

In any case, I'm off to ask a mod to split this topic off.

[Ziggy Stardust]

Oh, I don't know, bruised ribs don't seem like a very big deal. I'd have to know the exact circumstances of what happened to pick one side or the other, but since it's already done with I don't see how it matters. How do you know she sat there and watched, anyhow?
I guess I'd be a little sore on the subject if I'd been the one with the bruised ribs, though.

[Pieman]

I guess I'd be a little sore on the subject if I'd been the one with the bruised ribs, though.

Ho ho!

[Ziggy Stardust]

Oh, god, someone shoot me. I didn't even do it on purpose.

[Drakey]

Oh, I don't know, bruised ribs don't seem like a very big deal. I'd have to know the exact circumstances of what happened to pick one side or the other, but since it's already done with I don't see how it matters. How do you know she sat there and watched, anyhow?
I guess I'd be a little sore on the subject if I'd been the one with the bruised ribs, though.

Bruised ribs, I think, that are severe enough to mention means something more than just "the area of skin over the ribs showed a bruise". I think, and I'm not sure on this, but I think, that I have heard of bones themselves actually being bruised, which makes sense, since I seem to recall that they contain some capillaries at least. Pretty severe trauma.

As for the teacher sitting and watching:

"it happened in her classroom with her there and she didn't do anything about it."

So the teacher was either watching this happen, or else was passed out on the floor. Either way, not merely fired, but fired from a catapult into a vat of distilled unemployment.

[Pieman]

"And what if I don't want to be a delivery boy?"
"You'll be fired..."
"Fine-"
"...out of a cannon, into the sun."

[Ziggy Stardust]

I sympathize with June, I know what it feels like to bruise bones. I just feel sorry for the teacher, I don't like people to lose their jobs. Since she appeared to be doing hers poorly, fine, she deserved what she got. Not my business to say so, however.
Whatever the case, I don't care. Sorry if I offended you, but since it's in the past it doesn't matter, June has or will heal and the teacher is unemployed. If all is right with the world, why argue morals?
Also, I never liked that episode of Futurama much.

[SpriteMeister]

Bruised ribs, I think, that are severe enough to mention means something more than just "the area of skin over the ribs showed a bruise". I think, and I'm not sure on this, but I think, that I have heard of bones themselves actually being bruised, which makes sense, since I seem to recall that they contain some capillaries at least. Pretty severe trauma.

Bruises of any kind shouldn't happen in a classroom, but I don't know if the bones themselves were bruised. The part that matters is this happened in second grade, and the teacher didn't do anything about it.

As for the teacher sitting and watching:

"it happened in her classroom with her there and she didn't do anything about it."

So the teacher was either watching this happen, or else was passed out on the floor. Either way, not merely fired, but fired from a catapult into a vat of distilled unemployment.

The teacher claimed she was busy tending to another student at the time. I don't think she actively watched as much as just turned a blind eye to it. But as Drakey said, it doesn't matter if it was cruelty or negligence, the teacher deserved what came to her.

[juneloveslotr]

Thank you Drakey and Meister, you both really hit the nail on the head. (though it was my first year of third grade.)

The oddest part of that whole situation is that I don't remember a thing. Everyone else, even Meister, my younger brother, remembers, but not me. Yeah for blocking out memories!

[Ziggy Stardust]

Ha, I don't remember being in elementary school much either. I've come to forget all the kids I grew up with, because what they grew up into were big fashion-obsessed jerks.

[Silfedac]

I actually remember most of my friends from elementary school, even though I skipped the fifth grade and didn't see them again until this year because we're finally in the same school again.

TL,DR: I AM A SAPPY ARROGANT JERK.

[SpriteMeister]

I remember most of the people in my first elementary school, because I wanted to eviscerate all of the bastards. Partly because I had a bad anger problem and would get angry at the drop of a hat--literally; and partly because they were bastards and took advantage of that every. Fucking. Moment. They. Could.

The oddest part of that whole situation is that I don't remember a thing. Everyone else, even Meister, my younger brother, remembers, but not me. Yeah for blocking out memories!

I don't remember that any more than you do.

[Silfedac]

I was more of a loner until around third grade, and I still only stick with my relatively small circle of friends. I make friends easily, though.

[Ziggy Stardust]

Oh, Meister, I'm sorry. Little kids are all snot-nosed brats and show a predisposition to rudeness at every opportunity. The smart ones grow up and get better about being donkey butts, but the majority, I'm sad to say, just continue on.
In regards to friends, first one I had was in fourth grade. Everything up 'til then was just hanging out with my siblings. I had a small circle of friends 'til the end of fifth grade, then everyone moved away and I hard to start from scratch in middle school.
XD Making friends is hard for me.

[Lich king]

Damn I am good at this, this is like the second time something I said has become topic.