Definition of the word Bully

bul·ly
/ˈbʊli/ Show Spelled [bool-ee]
Noun:
1. a blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people.

2. Archaic . a man hired to do violence.

Verb: (used with object)
3. To act the bully toward; intimidate; domineer.

Verb (used without object)
4. To be loudly arrogant and overbearing.

Those of you following this whole sorted mess, know where I'm going with this, those that don't... don't worry... we'll get back to pool shortly ;) click!

The term bully is really quite the buzz word lately. From concern over children acting out to children killing themselves over being bullied is all over the news lately. But what happens when the person being bullied is a child, but the bully is an adult????

Take for instance, February 14, 2011, Lansingburgh School District, Rensselaer Park Elementary School, second floor, afternoon. A child, 10 years old, is walking down the hallway to his classroom. The adult that he has a court order of protection against is walking down the hallway towards him. The adult stops and stares at him as he walks by, is this an act of a bully?

Oh.. ok... twist my arm. The adult was, of course, Kelley Bristol- infamous school board member of Lansingburgh School District, who has charges currently pending against her in the Town of Schadicoke which led directly to a court order of protection against her for a 10 year old child. Since criminal court only meets once a month, she has successfully avoided court for two months, so far, by adjournments. Eventually, however, Judge Arnold will become annoyed, as he always does from too many adjournments (oh... by the way Kelley.. you should meet his dog.. he has the MOST beautiful dark German Shepard I've ever seen- spot on trained too- you could probably learn something from him!)

So, you ask, how does she manage to get into the school? Well, normal court order of protections do not cover situations such as school, especially if the person has children attending the same school. Fair enough. Really. I'm totally and was totally fine with her being in the school to go to her children's class parties, plays, picking her children up from school, or what have you. I was assured by the principle that was the limit as to her being in the school.

For the last few weeks Kelley has been overheard in the hallways saying (add AS MUCH tone as you can here...) "..I'm not allowed to walk around the school..." So, instead of taking her lumps and doing what was right, she asked the school board (remember... she's a member of that school board) to allow her total freedom in the school. Please... look above to the definition of a bully again. Within three days of this new found freedom, she stops and stares down the 10 year old that has the court order of protection against her. Again.. please refer to the above definition of bully.

At 2pm on February 14, 2011 I removed my children from the school. I had no choice. I can not be in both of my children's classrooms at all times and the Superintendent refuses to limit Kelley Bristol's access to my children, so I sincerely had no choice. Both teachers are working with me, as far as work goes, and I bring them in for any testing and wait outside the classrooms.

Instead of Kelley Bristol waiting for this whole thing to be done, and suffer the consequences of her actions in the meantime, she pushed and pushed and now the only people suffering consequences of HER actions are my children. Again. Look at the definition of bully.

A judge normally does not change a court order of protection once it is issued, however the District Attorney is going back to him to see if it can be changed to also cover school, so my children can start attending again. So, instead of being happy with the access that Kelley had to the school, she could be looking at a full order which would not even allow her on school grounds. Ever. Is this what I wanted? Nope. Is it what I want now? Yup. Why? Because she pushes and pushes... she honestly thinks that chasing down a school bus, boarding it and confronting a 10 year old is perfectly ok.

She actually thinks it's her RIGHT to walk around that school intimidating a 10 year old! Imagine that!!! Seriously! Imagine if it was your child that had to walk down hallways hoping he wouldn't run into the very person the police would arrest if they got close to him outside the school!! The school should be a safe zone for children, not a place to cause panic attacks!

On February 14, 2011 I informed the superintendent, George, that I was removing my children. His response? Well... mind you... he's the worse kind of $108,000/year puppet I've EVER seen, he hadn't conferred with the school attorney or the school board so all he kept saying over and over was "I'm not discussing this now." And "She's allowed to walk around the school." Over and over.

At one point I even put my hand on my sons head and said "George, this is Colin. Would you like to apologise to him directly for what happened on the bus?" His response? "I'm not discussing this now." No joke. You'd think that for over $100,000 per year he'd be able to realise that him saying "I'm sorry Colin that you had to go through that." Does not imply guilt. It just shows empathy for a child, in his school district, that went through and outrageous experience. Over $100,000/year and the man can not think for himself. Why bother? He retires this year, the board should just keep the 100k, skip the middle 'puppet' and dictate to the schools directly.

Oh right, there are laws governing against doing that. Just like the laws that the Commissioner upholds... by the way Kelley.. He's waiting with baited breath for your conviction so he can remove you from the school board. The longer you wait, the longer it will be before you can run again. Good by me.

By the way. Mary Sweeney, the Chairman of the School Board, 'followed' me on Twitter, to read my tweets, and then 'unfollowed' within the hour. Too bad she didn't realize my tweets aren't protected and she could have read them without the 'follow'. Although, I fully appreciate the 'follow' so I got an email as to her 'following' me. Weird right? Why would she do that? Who's pocket is she in?

By the way, all of the isp addresses for all of the threats left on this website have been traced by a private detective and all of the information has been handed over. Hope it was worth it! People really are dumb. Anonymous doesn't actually mean anonymous in the computer world.. how do people not know that?

I can not promise that this will be my last post on this issue.. however... I can promise that my next post will start covering bridges. And if you don't know what that means.... why are you reading this blog?????????

Peace Brothers ;) click