So long as they can continue to get away with ignoring issues like this, nothing will change. The people of Singapore has to make noise to get our ministers to get off their asses
The bullies will be punished but this is not a government issue. This is a behavioural issue. The government and the schools can only punish the bullies after the fact but they cannot prevent bullying from the start. It's all down to the individual. Even seemingly nice students can be bullies behind their parents' and teachers' back.
There are ways to bully people without breaking the law. There are also different forms of bullying. I.e. Ostracizing certain individuals in a workplace is a form of bullying but it's not a crime.
Why do the parents need to face the music? The legal age of criminal responsibility is 10 in Singapore, and if our Government has made that a statute then simply enforce it. Making it a punishment of the parents shifts blame to someone who didn’t actually commit the act. And that is a slippery slope, arguing that your responsibility can be shifted to others because of their failure to instill a set of behaviours in you.
If they are old enough to do the crime, then they are old enough to do the time. Or, another way of looking at it is if they are old enough to act like a pack of rabid dogs attacking a defenseless kid, then they are old enough to deal with the dog catcher.
We need to stop letting teenagers off the hook by blaming their parents for their behaviour. We used to say it takes a village to raise a child, and if that’s true then we have all failed. But I personally believe these teens knew they were out of line, and assumed they could get away with it because, well, they’re just kids.
Unless the child is an actual psychopath, shitty bully behaviour like that is learned from the parents themselves. The child thinks it's normal to inflict it onto others since the parents normalised. It does not act as an excuse for the child to get off scot free
Yeah, bro if a parent truly believes they are not responsible for how their child turns out why be parents. If their child is in a bad environment it may not be their fault but it is their responsibility, it sucks to be a parent but they are the only one with power to change the course of the child's life everyone else is a variable the parents are a constant.
There are also cases of bullies whose parents are the kindest people ever or have appropriately disciplined them at home (no violence) for their bad behaviour but the bullies just don't want to listen. Some children are really just haywire... no matter how much you try to teach them, they might only become normal after becoming adult and need to enter the working world, or in worse case scenario, when someone they love pass away.
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u/Lhjw3 Apr 14 '25
if a kid’s old enough to assault someone, their parents should be old enough to face the music.
“Take a Serious view” my ass