Sometimes you have to fight to be a man…
Bullies shouldn’t exist in society, yet they do, like a swarm of roaches, appear everywhere. Bullies are said to bully for a reason, according to common wisdom. that they might be insecure or that they may have experienced trauma.
But I think we can all agree that most bullies don’t actually have a tragic backstory to tell. Some people are simply bad, period.
But our featured story for today is the other way around, someone stood up to the bully and his mom has his unwavering support.
A mom in Missouri is not apologizing for backing up her son’s decision to fight back against a bully. Allison Davis’ son Drew has been suspended from school after he laid out a kid who had been bullying him since middle school.
Allison said that she was not upset with Drew’s behavior. “Not even a little bit,” she said. “I know as a parent I’m suppose[d] to be upset with him for resorting to violence or getting suspended but I’m not.”
Her Facebook post has attracted lots of attention, notably for her stance that the school and the bully are both in the wrong, and that her son using physical violence to solve a problem was in the right.
After he suffered for years, the mom shared that her son finally stood up to his bully by punching him.
In her post which has been shared more than 145K times, Allison explained the events that led to her son becoming suspended from school.
“Five days of OSS [out of school suspension] for beating up the kid that has been tormenting and bullying him since middle school,” she wrote. “I know as a parent I’m supposed to be upset with him for resorting to violence or getting suspended, but I’m not. Not even a little bit.”
Allison went on to describe in chilling detail the years of abusive treatment her son endured from taunting to threats at the hands of his bully, some of which were caught on video, and the school refused to intervene.
Drew’s bully apparently threatened him on multiple occasions, resulting in Drew being afraid to walk the halls for fear of an attack.
“He quit talking to the adults about it because they never disciplined the bully and it just made the situation worse,” Allison told Love What Matters.
“I sent the school a lengthy email at the beginning of the year begging them to do something because Drew refused to talk to adults at school about it because he knew it would do him no good.“
With the school doing little to help and Drew of the opinion that he couldn’t trust adults to sort the problem out for him, he knew there was only one thing to do: stand up to his bully.
Allison explained:
“When this kid threatened Drew (while on the bus) and then moved on to making fun of his dad and then threatening Jackson, his 11-year-old brother, Drew decided he would quit relying on the school and the adults who are supposed to protect him.
He decided HE would do something.
Three punches and his bully screamed like a baby, his minion friends shut up, and this morning the bully wouldn’t even look at him.
Problem solved.
As a parent, I know I’m supposed to be upset with him for resorting to violence or getting suspended, but I’m not.
Not even a little bit.”
Bullying should never be tolerated in society, and though violence is never the answer some bullies simply have to learn the error of their ways.
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Sources: AWM, Love What Matters