BULLYING: Here's ultimate answer

Remember back in the old days of the ‘50s? We had a Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, who practiced “brinkmanship” after the Korean War with an emerging bully named Red China. There were two little islands off the coast of China and in undiplomatic terms Dulles essentially said, If you so much as touch those islands we’ll knock your block off! In plain terms the only way to deal with a bully is to first get their attention.

Parents, you with the ultimate responsibility for the actions of your children, need to step up and give your schools the right “weapons” to deal with the problem. Remember when children were told that if they “got it” at school, they’d “get it” twice as hard at home? Those days can come back if we wimpy parents would stand up on our hind legs and demand that the schools take aggressive action and then we’ll follow up at home. And we men need to offer our services to single mothers to help them with this.

A bully really only respects someone stronger and we parents and the schools need to be that for them or the problems only worsens. Having run private schools where any type of bullying got my full and immediate attention, I know what can happen in the lives of young people when the school and home act in concert. If I ran a public school, this problem would be resolved in a few weeks.

JIM KORVER

Coeur d’Alene