The answer of course is they are both equally important. Why then, when the bully is getting a second chance is there so little effort to cater for the needs of his victim?
He’s been pushed down a ski hill, jumped, beaten and pounded so hard that he’s suffered three concussions.
He’s been bullied so badly over the years that he’s twice threatened suicide.
Yet the expelled teen who’s made Fraser Sutherland’s life a living hell is being allowed back into his high school next year. And administrators have told the 15-year-old victim to suck it up and forgive his “reformed” tormentor – or find somewhere else to go in September.
“I shouldn’t have to leave the school when I didn’t do anything wrong. I believe the person that is doing the harm should leave,” said Fraser, who’s just finished Grade 10 at St. Brother Andre Catholic School in Markham, Ont.
“What we’re fearing is this individual is going to come back to finish the job,” his angry dad, Kirk, said. “What’s it going to take? Does he have to be left lying in a puddle of blood in the school bathroom?”
“Suck it up … or find somewhere else to go?” I hope that line isn’t accurate.
You are talking to a child that had to endure terrible hardships at your school due to one of your students – show some respect!
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