Monday, April 10, 2006

Please stop!

Could someone please remove these spineless school officials or do we have absolute tolerance for zero tolerance stupidity?

Then do take a good read on what martial arts instructor Pedro Delgado has to say! I can personally attest the effect of it.

Story:
Coral Springs parent Janice Davidow said she spent two years fearing for her 14-year-old son every time he left for school.

She said bullies have shoved her son Troy into a concrete wall, pushed him down stairs, knocked him head first onto the ground and yanked off his backpack, throwing it into the mud.

Troy, who is "skinny" and has mild learning disabilities, was an easy target, said Davidow.

She finally pulled her son out of Sawgrass Middle School in November after a boy strangled him with a piece of clothing and knocked him unconscious when he tried to get away, Davidow said.

"It was a matter of survival, not defense," she said. "Every parent is extremely powerless."

Troy was suspended for fighting back, added Davidow, who has filed two reports with the Coral Springs Police Department.

Martial arts instructor Pedro Delgado, of Sunrise, said until bullying is wiped out in the schools, he has another solution.

"They were cornering him, intimidating him," said Delgado, remembering his son's hard times at Sandpiper Elementary in Sunrise. "I started training him and taking him to karate school and he gained so much confidence nobody bothered him anymore."

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