Originally Posted by C/1Lt Henderson

our outstanding peer mediation team.

I'd like to hear more about this Henderson.

Well, I have been picking on since 5th Grade to earlier 9th Grade for about being only deaf student in the school. But until the freshman year, I joined NJROTC. They stopped picking on me when they saw me in the uniform and my size by the height. They're pussies. No fight....but always close to get in the fight....They were just bunch of punks, emos, skateboarders.

Originally Posted by C/1Lt Henderson

peer mediation team.

we had those in middle school, but they never really worked much...probably cause the cliches in our school are pretty intimidating. I hate it.

Basically in our school if people are really POed at each other, they fight it out, even though it means suspention. We had probably ten or more fights and a very serious gun threat last year.

Originally Posted by bulldogg

I'd like to hear more about this Henderson.

Just a group of students, all volunteer, who act as counselors for students. We have over 2000 kids at BJHS, so it's hard for the counselors to get to all the students for every little problem. The students set up an appointment with a mediator, and the mediator helps them work it out. More often than not, a mediator has had some sort of experience in the matter of the conflict, and is therefore that much more helpful.

Philam how do the cliques intimidate the peer counseling team?

Its sounding to me like there has been some progress but with varying degrees of success. I see the problem of school violence as a three pronged object involving parents-teachers-students. For the kids who have seen problems still in their schools- which of the three is responsible for the failure to improve things as you see it?

I think the blame is shared fairly equally between the three sets of people. The teachers dont really act to stop verbal abuse. The parents need to watch their kids more carefully as well. Honestly, kids today are as vicious as always. I think that the only diffrence is that they are a bit more indirect about it now.

Originally Posted by bulldogg

Philam how do the cliques intimidate the peer counseling team?

Its sounding to me like there has been some progress but with varying degrees of success. I see the problem of school violence as a three pronged object involving parents-teachers-students. For the kids who have seen problems still in their schools- which of the three is responsible for the failure to improve things as you see it?

They intimidate everyone...mostly Im talking about "the populars" I suppose you know them, cheerleaders, sluts, bitches, any girl who can bring out the talons. A few are nice maybe 1 out of every 30. Rumors travel fast in our school, and I know the teachers see it, but they do absolutely nothing to stop it. In fact my spanish teacher was even gossiping with some students. The above clique can get most of the teachers wrapped around their finger most of the time.

So to answer your original question, if our couseling team tried to do anything about maybe how "the populars" treat others it would first depend on who was on this team, if it wasn't anyone in their clique they would tear them apart, not physically. Rumors, comments, sneers, taunts, anything to embarrass them whether it was the way they look, or the stuff they have or do.

They high school is the best years of your life...the people who say that were probably "popular"

just saying

Thing about our counseling team...They don't care. They really are made of rubber...The populars can and have tried most everything, but nothing works on them, because they know that ultimately, it doesn't matter...God is the only one that can judge them. Nothing else matters.

Originally Posted by C/1Lt Henderson

Thing about our counseling team...They don't care. They really are made of rubber...The populars can and have tried most everything, but nothing works on them, because they know that ultimately, it doesn't matter...God is the only one that can judge them. Nothing else matters.

Maybe in your school, our school is pretty much ****ed up

I was only picked on once throughout my entire school career up to this point, back in second grade. Some kid thought it would be funny to steal my lunch, and then later to steal my seat on the bus. So the next day I punched him in the back of the head in the hall and stomped him, and I never had problems again.

No one has ever insulted or attacked me in High School. My school had about 3,200 kids in it. I was one of the biggest kids there, and I kept a low profile so no one really had any incentive to start problems. The only fights I've seen have been between black girls, but I do occasionally hear of bloody fights that take place off of school grounds. Wouldn't do to get caught doing something that violent.

Originally Posted by C/1Lt Henderson

Thing about our counseling team...They don't care. They really are made of rubber...The populars can and have tried most everything, but nothing works on them, because they know that ultimately, it doesn't matter...God is the only one that can judge them. Nothing else matters.

Just now read this post. I must be the same way, because I got a good amount of verbal abuse when I first moved from Pittsburgh to Brooklyn, in the 5th grade. I never cared, and it only served to further enrage those who were trying to provoke me. I laughed in their faces.

Mod edit: Just merged the two posts into one. Just use the "edit" function next time, please and thanks.