This is truly disturbing

[theonedru]

Video shows bully attacking 15-year-old gay student

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/upshot/v...184016355.html

This Kid commits this heinous and deliberate crime and walk away with a 3 day suspension? The losers that watched this and did nothing deserve more than that. This kid deserves a seriously long jail term to remind him and others that this is not cool.

This time lets keep it civil, no insulting or egging other members. We stick to topic and some people just need to read the P&R forum rules before posting. Sorry to those who had great comments in the former thread.

[andrewhoya]

Video shows bully attacking 15-year-old gay student

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/upshot/v...184016355.html

This Kid commits this heinous and deliberate crime and walk away with a 3 day suspension? The losers that watched this and did nothing deserve more than that. This kid deserves a seriously long jail term to remind him and others that this is not cool.

This time lets keep it civil, no insulting or egging other members. We stick to topic and some people just need to read the P&R forum rules before posting. Sorry to those who had great comments in the former thread.

If it happened once already, what makes you think it wont happen again?

[duane1969]

Where the heck is the teacher?!!

[tutall]

does he deserve the jail time because he picks on a gay kid or because he bullies another student? Dont get me wrong.. I think he deserves jail time but being that it was a crime against a gay student has nothing to do with it

[gladdyontherise]

does he deserve the jail time because he picks on a gay kid or because he bullies another student? Dont get me wrong.. I think he deserves jail time but being that it was a crime against a gay student has nothing to do with it

Nailed it on the head, kids get in fights at school all the time, the sexuality of the student shouldn't be the deciding factor into his punishment.

[theonedru]

Nailed it on the head, kids get in fights at school all the time, the sexuality of the student shouldn't be the deciding factor into his punishment.

kids get in fights at school all the time

And because so it makes it ok or what are you saying by this statement? regardless of age beating someone is wrong and should be punished to the fullest extent possible. its funny the double standard on here, if the kid was younger, female or disabled then that would be factored in so why not the kids sexuality if that was a factor in choosing who to beat

If he was targeted because he was gay then it should factor in to the kids punishment because it makes what he did a more severe crime, if not then it shouldn't. And all those others who watched should have been expelled because they are just as guilty as the guy that did the beating.

[gladdyontherise]

kids get in fights at school all the time

And because so it makes it ok or what are you saying by this statement? regardless of age beating someone is wrong and should be punished to the fullest extent possible. its funny the double standard on here, if the kid was younger, female or disabled then that would be factored in so why not the kids sexuality if that was a factor in choosing who to beat

If he was targeted because he was gay then it should factor in to the kids punishment because it makes what he did a more severe crime, if not then it shouldn't. And all those others who watched should have been expelled because they are just as guilty as the guy that did the beating.

Did I say that? Kids get in fights all the time, my point is this situation shoudn't be handled any different then it normally should just because of the boys sexuality.

As usual though you are putting words into other peoples mouths.

[tutall]

kids get in fights at school all the time

And because so it makes it ok or what are you saying by this statement? regardless of age beating someone is wrong and should be punished to the fullest extent possible. its funny the double standard on here, if the kid was younger, female or disabled then that would be factored in so why not the kids sexuality if that was a factor in choosing who to beat

If he was targeted because he was gay then it should factor in to the kids punishment because it makes what he did a more severe crime, if not then it shouldn't. And all those others who watched should have been expelled because they are just as guilty as the guy that did the beating.

There shouldnt be any discrepency in punishment from the school no matter who the victim was. From a public perception of course there is going to be a difference of opinion but as far as punishment goes which is what this thread appears to be about, the victim should not matter one bit.

[themanishere]

I agree his sexuality should be factored in, because he was specifically targeted for it. It's not the same as a fight that breaks out because someone spilled your lunch on purpose or whatever.

It wasn't the first time the kid was harassed though. I'm not excusing the attack, but being passive (on the part of all involved parties) about the situation allows things to build up to this.

[andrewhoya]

If the school systems policy is a 3 day suspension for bullying a kid, then a 3 day suspension is what he deserved. You can't go changing things around all the time. 3 days is usually what it is for most school systems.