Poor Molly......

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Poor Molly......
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Thu, 10-19-2006 - 7:52am

Yesterday on the bus, Molly was threatened by some first graders. Remember, she is only 7, and is not one to really stand up for herself (only with her sister, lol). Katie said she noticed that Molly was crying on the bus. She went over to check on her and found out that 2 first graders told her they were going to shoot and kill her! OMG! To make a long story short, Katie told the teacher as soon as she got off the bus. This is apparently a 3rd offense for one of them. The superintendent of schools was being called to reprimand this boy. The other one was getting a note home to parents, since it was his first offense. Molly was quite upset and I was VERY proud of Katie for being so protective of her sister and know the right things to do. She sat with her the rest of the way on the bus, and made sure the proper people found out. There are always those little glimmers of hope in there that you ARE doing the right thing! LOL! The 1st grade teacher was very apologetic to me (she talked to me when I went in for recess duty). She explained that these boys were imitating what they saw on Pokemon? We don't watch Pokemon here, so I have no idea what they are talking about. But, she said that Molly should NOT be frightened to ride the bus, and that she is taking the matter very seriously. Phew! She was Molly's teacher last year, so she knows how sensitive Molly is, too.

Anyway, that was added into my day yesterday. Like I needed that!

Wendy

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Thu, 10-19-2006 - 8:13am
That is terrible Wendy.

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Thu, 10-19-2006 - 10:51am

That is awful! Kids need to know that those words are not acceptable and need some sever punishment for saying it. That is something the parent should be involved in too!

I hate school buses and reading this makes me hate it more. lol. I drive my dd to school every day. Two times in the past two weeks I have two separate bus drivers should visible angry (lol) towards me for no apparent fault of mine. The bus drivers around us are on tight schedules to work between schools and subdivisions that I think it stresses them out not to meantion some of the "problem" kids they transport.

I hope Molly is ok and I am very sorry that she had to hear that!

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Thu, 10-19-2006 - 11:01am
Wendy, I'm so sorry this is happening to your family! Apparently those boys don't actually watch Pokemon, but they do watch the news! I've watched a LOT of Pokemon (don't ask why) and I've never seen or even heard of Pokemon talking about shooting or killing someone. It's just not part of the show. It is comforting, I think, that they are bringing in the superintendent of schools to speak with the boy with repeat offenses. Hopefully more action than just a talking to will happen. (((((Hugs to you and Molly))))) G/L dealing with this!

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Thu, 10-19-2006 - 11:35am
This kind of threatening i really don't remember growing up in the states, and well, i don't know what is happening anymore. There is too much violence, it is not so bad here in Athens, Greece where i live but, it is comming here too, just nowhere near what it is in the states, i think still. Anyway, i dread the thought of my child being threatened by anyone, even onother child, i guess i just want her to feel that violence isn't the predominant way, of life. I don't know has it become dog eat dog, am i just an idealist, i mean a first grader being threatened with ahooting. To think my family and i were visiting lancaster this summer, and i was telling my hubby what a nice little community to raise a child, and we all know what happened there with the amish school shooting not too long ago. I mean when society is shooting children, something is really wrong.
It happened in Beslan, in the former soviet union where a school was held hostage, an elementary school hundreds of elementary school children were executed.
Honestly my childhood elementary school memories are so nice, and non violent, what is going on now adays?
I'm sorry to hear she was frightened like that.
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Thu, 10-19-2006 - 12:41pm

(((((((((Molly))))))))))))

Wendy I would have been livid! HUGE kudos to Katie for looking out for her!!!!
With all the things you hear about happening on buses, I'm shocked that they don't have monitors riding the buses with the kids. There is no excuse for inappropriate behaviour like that... whether they are imitating a cartoon or not. At least the teachers and the others in charge are handling the situation.
Give her a huge hug from me!!!

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Thu, 10-19-2006 - 3:05pm
awww Wendy, poor Molly. How scary and saddening. I am glad the teacher is taking this seriously. It happens all to often in the news these days. I often wonder how many of these kids that do the school shootings, started out like the boy you described...by saying those words, liking the shock and attention he gets, then it esculates. I'm glad Molly has such a great sister...you're doing something right with them lol!
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Fri, 10-20-2006 - 10:09am

Hi Wendy


I am so sorry that your daughter was so upset.


In my opinion a harsher penalty should be made - I don't care if they are only in the first grade.

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Fri, 10-20-2006 - 2:17pm

(((Wendy))) how hard!! And those kids are only in FIRST GRADE?? You must be very proud of Katie, but poor Molly! I'm so sorry that happened to her. How scary! It sounds like you handled it perfectly. I hope you get the whole thing resolved.

I can kind of sympathize. Last year when Matthew was in 2nd grade, some big 4th and 5th graders started calling him "gay." I was so mad! It just bothers you so much when your kids get picked on! I was going to do something about it, but it seemed to blow over. We told Matthew just to ignore them. He wanted to know what "gay" was, and we wanted to teach him in the politically correct way. We didn't want him to think "gay" was a bad thing, because we don't want him growing up homophobic. At the same time, I feel like he's really too young to understand!

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Sat, 10-21-2006 - 4:30pm
OMG, what is WRONG with kids ? I'm so sorry about what happened to Molly ! Thank goodness her sister was there to help. I think the "note home" is a little weak, though, I mean, did he not just threaten to kill someone ?! Hopefully someone will deal with these boys appropriately and you'd HOPE it was their parents...sigh...anyway, give Molly a big hug and some ice cream, lol...
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Sun, 10-22-2006 - 3:00pm
That is so sad that kids that age act that way.
I am glad they are taking care of the problem and not just shrugging it off.

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