# Girl bullied, told she should go to summer school **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 28, 2004, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-bullied-told-she-should-go-to-summer-school/247593 "2004-05-28T23:14:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-bullied-told-she-should-go-to-summer-school/247593/1 "2004-05-28T23:14:48Z")
[http://www.thewbalchannel.com/education/3349955/detail.html](http://www.thewbalchannel.com/education/3349955/detail.html) > [@](#): > > A 13-year-old Denver girl said she was threatened with a knife at her middle school and her hair was set on fire, yet she was the one who was told to stay home for the remainder of the school year while her alleged attacker wasn’t suspended or even investigated. Well, it’s good to see the school dealt with it in a appropriate manner. :rolleyes: I really don’t understand why we have school shootings with schools like this one’s attitudes towards bullying. I know my own school’s bullying policy of “OK guys, stop picking on him. I mean it, for serious, don’t do it again, ok?” is very effective. > [@](#): > > The interim principal at Martin Luther King Middle School declined an on-camera interview, but said her staff made serious mistakes in this case and that she will offer Glowczewski and her family a summer school program and transportation. > [@](#): > > Courtney Glowczewski has a small right arm and leg because of cerebral palsy, a disability that her teachers say has not kept her from working hard in school and being a good student. “We’re sorry you got abused. So we’re telling you to go to summer school, which is usually for people who slacked off during the regular school time and got bad grades.” How does Zero Tolerance not apply to this? I’m hoping the parents sue the school. It’s too bad the worst the kid can get is probably juvie, I have the school’s address if people wish to write them about this. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![FaerieBeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@FaerieBeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FaerieBeth)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-bullied-told-she-should-go-to-summer-school/247593/2 "2004-05-28T23:49:26Z")
Un.Be.Lievable. In the text of the article, the administration admits that the student in question DID have a knife! And he’s still at school! An incident, in a public school, where a handicapped student is harassed, threatened with bodily harm, then set on fire, and the logical response is to bar **her** from school? :eek: 😕 :mad: If I were this girl’s mother, …well, I honestly don’t know what I’d do. This sort of fuck up is so flabbergasting that I’m having difficulty formulating a response to it. FB ---
**Author:** ![Darkhold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@Darkhold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darkhold)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-bullied-told-she-should-go-to-summer-school/247593/3 "2004-05-28T23:55:43Z")
> [@](#): > > she will offer Glowczewski and her family a summer school program and transportation. Will she also remove the poor grades she got on her transcript and only make her attend the last few weeks of summer school because she was nearly done with her own school year? ---
**Author:** ![Darkhold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@Darkhold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darkhold)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-bullied-told-she-should-go-to-summer-school/247593/4 "2004-05-28T23:57:14Z")
Thank God she wasn’t sexually harrassed then raped she might have ended up in jail and forced to attend sensitivity training. ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-bullied-told-she-should-go-to-summer-school/247593/5 "2004-05-28T23:58:14Z")
Things like this are why God made lawyers. ---
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-bullied-told-she-should-go-to-summer-school/247593/6 "2004-05-29T00:01:26Z")
> [@FaerieBeth](#): > > An incident, in a public school, where a handicapped student is harassed, threatened with bodily harm, then set on fire, and the logical response is to bar **her** from school? :eek: 😕 :mad: They aren’t barring her from the school, unless this statement implies it in some way I am not seeing: > [@](#): > > [The principal] will offer Glowczewski and her family a summer school program and transportation. Still very shitty. ---
**Author:** ![MaddyStrut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dbc845/32.png) [@MaddyStrut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaddyStrut)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-bullied-told-she-should-go-to-summer-school/247593/7 "2004-05-29T00:12:35Z")
Sounds a lot like my old school where the response to bullies was pretty much “stop before we say ‘stop’ again!” :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_With_The_Golden_Gun)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-bullied-told-she-should-go-to-summer-school/247593/8 "2004-05-29T00:34:15Z")
Colorado, have you learned NOTHING from Columbine? ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-bullied-told-she-should-go-to-summer-school/247593/9 "2004-05-29T00:34:18Z")
Makes you wonder why they had an _interim_ principal… I am glad I finished school 100 years ago. > [@Reeder](#): > > Things like this are why God made lawyers. God had nothing to do with making lawyers… just sayin… ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-bullied-told-she-should-go-to-summer-school/247593/10 "2004-05-29T00:49:58Z")
> [@MaddyStrut](#): > > Sounds a lot like my old school where the response to bullies was pretty much “stop before we say ‘stop’ again!” :rolleyes: Is that all? I had to attend counseling as well. “So Stuffy, why do you think these kids have a problem with you.” Getting beat up was soooo much fun back in the olds days. ---
**Author:** ![kung\_fu\_lola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@kung\_fu\_lola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kung_fu_lola)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-bullied-told-she-should-go-to-summer-school/247593/11 "2004-05-29T00:54:54Z")
> [@Stuffy](#): > > Is that all? I had to attend counseling as well. “So Stuffy, why do you think these kids have a problem with you.” Getting beat up was soooo much fun back in the olds days. Hey, I had the same thing happen to me! I was blamed for being harassed because I “wasn’t trying hard enough to fit in”. ---
**Author:** ![FaerieBeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@FaerieBeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FaerieBeth)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-bullied-told-she-should-go-to-summer-school/247593/12 "2004-05-29T01:44:44Z")
> [@Aslan of Narnia](#): > > They aren’t barring her from the school, unless this statement implies it in some way I am not seeing > Still very shitty. They are barring her from finishing out the regular school year. > [@the article](#): > > …she was the one who was told to stay home for the remainder of the school year while her alleged attacker wasn’t suspended… ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-bullied-told-she-should-go-to-summer-school/247593/13 "2004-05-29T01:54:43Z")
> [@Aslan of Narnia](#): > > > [@FaerieBeth](#): > > > > An incident, in a public school, where a handicapped student is harassed, threatened with bodily harm, then set on fire, and the logical response is to bar her from school? ☹😕 :mad: > > They aren’t barring her from the school, unless this statement implies it in some way I am not seeing: > > > [@](#): > > > > [The principal] will offer Glowczewski and her family a summer school program and transportation. > > Still very shitty… A little higher up: > [@](#): > > Sherrie Glowczewski was outraged when she was told by the administration at Martin Luther King that her daughter didn’t need to come back and not to worry about the tests. Wow. I’m pretty much speechless. ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-bullied-told-she-should-go-to-summer-school/247593/14 "2004-05-29T01:55:46Z")
By 10 minutes, FaerieBeth? Clearly, that’s because I put more effort into my coding. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![FaerieBeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@FaerieBeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FaerieBeth)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-bullied-told-she-should-go-to-summer-school/247593/15 "2004-05-29T02:02:12Z")
> [@TJdude825](#): > > By 10 minutes, FaerieBeth? Clearly, that’s because I put more effort into my coding. ☹ I’ll mark it down on my short list of times that being a lazy slacker worked out for me, **TJdude825**. 😃 It was very nice coding. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-bullied-told-she-should-go-to-summer-school/247593/16 "2004-05-29T02:03:28Z")
From the [Rocky Mountain News](http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_2917937,00.html) > [@](#): > > Then came came May 17, when Courtney said a seventh-grade classmate threatened her with a small plastic knife and lit her hair on fire. > > But even that wasn’t the worst of it. > > Courtney was the one sent home for the rest of the school year and told to forget about taking her exams, while nothing happened to the boy accused of bullying her. I can’t find the online article from the Denver Post. Both papers gave it an article in the print editions this morning. I’m not a fan of suing at the drop of a hat, but if ever a situation called for it, this is it. ---
**Author:** ![JoeSki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b487fb/32.png) [@JoeSki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeSki)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-bullied-told-she-should-go-to-summer-school/247593/17 "2004-05-29T02:50:58Z")
Not much gets a rise out of me, I have a sense of humor as dark as coal, and normally don’t care what happens to people outside of my family and friends, but stories like this severely piss me off. I was picked at at every school I’ve attended since second grade, and I still have violent dreams every now and then of the people that used to harrass me. The principles, teachers, and school counslers never did shit for me, and to read this…I’m just sickened and disturbed. Something is not working here. ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-bullied-told-she-should-go-to-summer-school/247593/18 "2004-05-29T02:56:31Z")
I have finally made some sort of peace with the horrid three years of middle school I suffered through. This year. I left that place in 1990. I will never quit being pissed as all hell about it, but I refuse to let those bastards poison my daily life any more. I would love to see what would have happened if the school had told me not to come back. Oh boy. It’s time to call in the lawyers. More than time. Oh yeah. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-bullied-told-she-should-go-to-summer-school/247593/19 "2004-05-29T13:26:29Z")
> [@The Man With The Golden Gun](#): > > Colorado, have you learned NOTHING from Columbine? Unfortunately, yes. If a student is brutalized and tormented by bullies logn enough, they may eventually snap and retaliate violently. Solution: Crack down on the victims before they can retaliate. ---
**Author:** ![WernhamHogg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a587f6/32.png) [@WernhamHogg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WernhamHogg)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-bullied-told-she-should-go-to-summer-school/247593/20 "2004-05-29T13:48:15Z")
Schools have a long history of blaming the victims. “If you didn’t get upset, they wouldn’t set you on fire.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girl-bullied-told-she-should-go-to-summer-school/247593.md?page=2)