What would be a suitable punishment for the boys who bullied their bus monitor?

Have you seen the video?:

Leaving aside what the school or their parents might do, what would really serve the interest of justice?

Also, is no one teaching their children respect for elders anymore?

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Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on June 24, 2012 at 11:48pm

"You wish?" - that's all you got?

No, "I know you are, but what am I?"

No, "I'm rubber and you're glue - everything you say bounces off me and sticks to you?"

No, "You mother wears army boots?" (Ok, I really had to reach for that last one!)

But, "You wish?" Really?!

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Permalink Reply by Unseen on June 24, 2012 at 11:53pm

No, of course not. After all, I've got YOU!

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Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on June 25, 2012 at 12:03am

This time, YOU wish --

Permalink Reply by Gabriela Menicucci on June 24, 2012 at 7:28pm

I didn't say their consequence is therapy, but having the event added to their academic records so they won't get scholarships and in case they go to university its there for everyone to see. That's more than enough for me.

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Permalink Reply by Unseen on June 24, 2012 at 7:34pm

That seems like punishment for punishment's sake, to anticipate some of the objections you will hear. It seems to have minimal corrective value. I'm not sure that satisfies justice much better than forgetting the kids and just punishing the parents and/or the school.

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Permalink Reply by Gabriela Menicucci on June 24, 2012 at 7:44pm

It will have an effect on them. Specially in a country like yours where quality eduaction is a luxury. When their time for going to college arrive and they can't land a scholarship, while all their other classmates do, that will hurt. When they see they have the grades needed to get accepted in the university of their dreams but are declined, it will hurt them. It's acutally very cruel, it's a sentence to a life of mediocrity.

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Permalink Reply by Donald S. Chase on June 24, 2012 at 4:20pm

Do what God would do. (2 Kings 2;23-25.) Put the boys in a field and have 2 she bears maul them.

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Permalink Reply by Melissa Mays on June 24, 2012 at 4:54pm

..lmao, mr chase, hell YES.

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Permalink Reply by Unseen on June 24, 2012 at 5:12pm

The original post is about justice, not "solving the problem," retraining the or punishing the parents. It's about what would serve the interest of justice, not some way of taking the kids offf the hook by blaming the parents or the school. We might blame the other kids on the bus for not intervening, but what about teaching the perps a thing or two about justice?

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Permalink Reply by Unseen on June 24, 2012 at 7:21pm

But it's not YOUR choice!

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Permalink Reply by Gabriela Menicucci on June 24, 2012 at 7:51pm

Yes, true, but is not her fault her son commited suicide and thats not a reason to mock her and tell her "Your son comitted suicide because you are so ugly and fat and nobody wants to be with you not even him" too harsh.