“Cyber-bulling?”
‘Star Wars Kid’ cuts a deal with his tormentors
As Ghyslain Raza recalled, whenever he walked by his high school’s common areas, other students would jump on tables and chant, “Star Wars Kid! Star Wars Kid!”
There would be a commotion as they shouted and poked at him, trying to get a reaction. “It was simply unbearable,” he said.
An otherwise ordinary teen in this Quebec small town, Mr. Raza had become a worldwide object of ridicule when schoolmates put on the Internet a video of him clumsily pretending to be a Star Wars character.
Three years later, Mr. Raza and his parents this week reached an out-of-court settlement with the families of three former schoolmates they had sued for $351,000 in damages.
The settlement annuls a civil trial set to begin on Monday that would have scrutinized one of the world’s first and most-publicized cases of cyber-bullying.
It is easy to see from the above posts who did the bullying or sucked up to the bullyers.
i think i remember something about a bunch of people getting together on the net and getting him an iPod… was this the kid?
“And don’t give me that bullshit about “tell a teacher”!
Do you REALLY think, in a class of 30 – 40 students, a teacher can actually do much of anything?”
Tod, you are exactly right. Part of the problem are Liberals who say that there is no hierarchy of Consciousness therefore teachers have “no right” to enforce discipline, respect and righteousness because bullies have a right to self-expression. Usually, what teachers do is GRANT POWER to bullies by putting the strongest bully in a leadership role to control the class. This is where we get our world leaders today. They get promoted by us. When I was in 8th grade I got punched on the nose by a bully. To this day my nose is crooked and I can’t breathe straight. Well one day he started trouble with a teacher–the wrong teacher. The teacher awed the class by picking up the student bully from his desk and hurling him against the door with a blow that knocked that kid out of his senses. That teacher would not take bullshit from that kid. The BIG difference is that after that day the teacher formed a FRIENDSHIP with that kid. That kid learned to respect this particular teacher although he still beat up on kids outside. The teacher didn’t care about the bully’s outside life but in HIS classroom there was going to be only one ruler–teacher.
>>Part of the problem are Liberals who say that there is no hierarchy of
>>Consciousness therefore teachers have “no right” to enforce
>>discipline, respect and righteousness because bullies have a right to >>self-expression.
Hoo boy. So the liberals are to blame for this kid making an asshole out of himself and then having to be embarrassed, huh? Personally, I think it’s all Dumbya’s fault, him and his Axis of Evil (Heart Attack, Rove, and Fall-Boy Scooter).
>>This is where we get our world leaders today.
Can’t argue with that. Just look at the White House.
david never ceases to amuse me. I get a chuckle over his non-sense all the time. Him and his alter-ego Mr. Fusion, who happens to be the only person to “defend” david.
But I wonder if david actually believes in his insane rantings, or if it’s some sort of troll. His writing is amateurish rubbish at best, yet it strives to be something that it isn’t. He writes like someone that dropped out of high-school, yet years later is trying to sound like someone of knowledge. The content of his writings betray his actual education though.
29, blank, does this refer to the sum total of what you have to contribute?
>>>>>Childhood is like boot camp for adulthood. It’s supposed to be as happy as possible, but it’s also to allow you to find the skills to deal with the real world
Is that you’re standard comeback Mr. Fusion? Tell me, what have you contributed to any of these discussions other than trying to defend david? You’re in favor of some people speaking their mind (david), yet against others speaking their mind (blank for example).
When I read a few weeks ago when david claimed that the real heroes of 9/11 were the hijackers, and the firefighters shouldn’t be thought of as heroes, I almost stopped reading this blog. But I think blank hit the nail on the head, david isn’t playing with a full deck. If only there were an ignore function here as I do enjoy the the discussions and they provide insight. Paul Theodoropoulos being one of the writers I look forward to reading. But I have to wade through comments like davids.