The parents of the bullies need to be held to account. Five year olds should not be unsupervised and left to behave like thugs.

That could get them in trouble in normal adulthood, or they could become Presidents of their countries.

What are parents teaching their children these days ?

you don't want to know, believe me. After almost 20 years of teaching in elementary school I can honestly tell you that it is pretty scary and getting scarier. We have a saying..."The NUT doesn't fall far from the tree".

I suppose they learn this kind of behavior in the home ?

As is 6 to 12 year olds ?

Police say the story was made up, the kid got injured in a fall, not from a beating by five year old children.

Olympia 6-year-old ends up in hospital after standing up to bullies
by Gabe Cohen
Friday, August 24th 2018

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- A 6-year-old boy in Olympia was assaulted after he says he stood up to a group of kids who were bullying his friend.


Carter and his mother Dana English left Harborview Medical Center in Seattle on Friday afternoon after a morning surgery to repair a laceration in his eye.

“It’s been hell,” Dana said. “I haven’t slept. I haven’t eaten. I can’t do anything. I can’t even leave his side.”

. . .

They beat Carter with rocks and sticks, and rubbed sawdust in his eyes. He ended up with a broken arm, lacerated eye and several cuts and bruises across his head and face.

More:
https://komonews.com/news/local/olympia-6-year-old-ends-up-in-hospital-after-standing-up-to-bullies

I don't think you can, but I wish she could in this instance. They raised those soon-to-be gangsters.

reaches majority.

"You have to be better than that."

"You should have told the bullies you expect great things from them."

"It was none of your business."

"Remember the bullies have their own issues. You should have sympathized with them."

"What would Gandhi have done?"

All those are bull shit statements I heard from adults as a child.

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How are their parents raising them?

They’re staring at their phones like everyone else.

Didn't this take place outside Seattle?

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Put them on home restriction and no visitors allowed. Make their parents pay every dime spent on medical costs and each of these kids needs serious therapy while they are isolated to keep other children safe.

Then we would be guilty of making children into criminals.

Where the good guys are killed by the bad guys.

It was worst from fifth through 9th grade, but was always there until I left high school.

Believe me - that kind of thing really can impact someone for life. I still deal with the fallout from it. I was told it was "character building," but I don't always like my resulting character.

As I see it, two things are different now. First, some kids do, indeed, seem to be more violent. But second - and this is very encouraging to me - schools seem to be a lot more proactive about bullying. While too many adults still see it as "kids being kids," many - a lot more than when I was a kid - see it for what it is: a destructive force that can stunt social growth and even kill.

What the child injured in this incident did was incredibly brave. He should be treated as a hero.

I was bullied by the teacher, who then encouraged the students to join in. It was brutal and had a very lasting affect on me.

I was new that year at the school and the "pariah" treatment from other students continued on through High School. After all, they had been given the official go-ahead signal.

I don't think you can judge a person's future character based on what they did when they were five. So maybe counseling would be the obvious response.

Apparently this kid was injured in a fall.
https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2018/08/31/child-broken-arm-hospitalized-bully-attack-not-assaulted/

Was the fall from a balcony? Why would a six year old come up with that particular lie -- defending someone from a bully and an on-the-ground assault -- if the injuries sustained to his eye could have been explained by impact to that mulched area near the balconies and railings shown in the video?

Had he been bullied before, woke up to mom making the assumption, and trying to diffuse her concerns/cover up unauthorized climbing said it was on the ground and he wasn't the original target? Recent school lecture about doing the right thing?

I'm not wanting to go to conclusions that aren't based in fact. The proper authorities are involved. That's what matters. But I'm glad they are.

GoFundMe page, now deleted, collected thousands of $.

What he should have done is contact the proper authorities, answered their questions, waited till the reports were written and signed, they will be passed on for confirmation, officers will be assigned in order of priority and they will respond in a day or two.