Comments on: Star-Ledger: “N.J. is missing the basics on bullying”

By: William Nuesslein

William Nuesslein — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 09:54:49 +0000

Thanks, Robert, for the link.
A punch in a gut is what killed the escape artist Houdini.

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 00:42:06 +0000

Have you seen this NJ Bullying Case?

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/04/19/11289813-42-million-settlement-for-student-paralyzed-by-bully?lite

Obviously, I feel very sorry for the plaintiff. But the school was between a rock and a hard place. Had they preemptively expelled the bully, they could have been sued, too.

I hope they got a huge settlement from the bully’s parents, but I doubt it. If NJ is like my state, parents have a liability limit for damages caused by their children. (Last time I checked it was $40,000.)

By: Melvin H.

Melvin H. — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 21:40:21 +0000

Ah, NOW they remember the Law of Unintended Consequences!
Maybe “there should be a law”: Any law resulting from a tragedy–murders, suicides, so-called “bullying”, kidnappings, etc. but NOT including natural disasters, etc.–must wait two calendar years from the day of the incident to be introduced in Congress or the state legislatures; it also can NOT be put in as a rider on other bills, nor put in as all or part of any Executive Orders or state-equivalent.