As I explained, two black thugs went right into my sister’s house and beat up both her and her husband.

They got beat up because they fought back.

But after that incident my sister, having a healthy mind, immediately changed her whole attitude about guns.

I hope we all understand this lesson without first hand experience. Experience may be the best teacher, but if it is your last experience you won’t be the beneficiary.

One of my sisters is a bully. I’ve barely spoken to her
in the nearly 25 years since we last lived in the same
community. This isn’t a case of a tyrannical older
sibling versus a saintly younger sibling: I’m the oldest
and she’s the youngest. She’s been a bully ever since she
was very small.

I’ve done substitute teacher in four school districts in
my state. I’ve seen bullying in each of the public schools
in which I’ve substituted. The worst bullying I saw was in
the “Christian” school which had hired me to teach “computer.”
Of course, since it was both private and “Christian,” no
such thing as bullying could _possibly_ exist there!

The bullying was so endemic in the “Christian” school among
both the students and the adult personnel that I left at
the end of the first semester. I literally couldn’t
take any more of it — and I had no way to fight back.

I’d been sympathetic towards home schooling for many years.
Those experiences in those schools made me even more so:
if I had children, I would be doing everything I could
to homeschool them if I absolutely could not find a school
in which bullying is _punished_.

If you have children in school, don’t take the word of anyone
that there is no bullying. The school administration
(principal, etc.), the teachers, and your children all
have very strong reasons to tell you that no such thing
is occuring at their school. If it’s possible, drop in,
let the folks at the office know what you’re doing there,
and start observing: if that isn’t possible, let the school
know that you’d like to volunteer occasionally, during
the school day and throughout the school, _with_ the
students.

If you’re “too busy” to show up at your kids’ school
during the school day and take a look around, how dare
you even _think_ you are a good parent!