08-12-2021, 08:13 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-12-2021, 08:14 AM by ElwoodBlues1.)
I'll concur with Thry on the raciscm and bullying that the Greek and Italian kids copped....I went to Burwood Tech and was a Box Hill local myself , the school was notorious at the best of times even for the locals. We had a lot of problem kids from disadvantaged backgrounds, kids from boys homes etc and it was merciless at times how these migrant kids were treated.Staff couldnt handle the kids some who were men as we had 18/19 year olds who were kept down and nothing was done to stop it.
It just seemed like a rite of passage that every WOG kid had to go through and that it was universally accepted as being ok...so I get why Thry and in particular his brother felt they were isolated and abused. I remember one migrant kid was found impaled on the wire fence on the oval , the wire on the water pipe railing had been shoved through his wrist, another Italian kid ended up shoved head first through a telephone box we had out the front of the school. The solution was to remove the phone box..nothing else was done because it was just a Wog kid who they said started the fight which was BS, all the school knew who was responsible but the head bully was also the head prefect.
Yep its in the past and racism which is really bullying just comes in different forms now, bit more sophisticated more targetting the mental fragility of the victims but still with the same motives..
You want to fix it then change the laws, heavily fine, jail people etc etc....appealing to their better side or trying educate them is a waste of time IMO. People like Tex Walker have been educated till there is nothing more to teach them but reverted to his natural ways with Robbie Young when he thought it was safe to do so. He needed a justice system that handed him a heavy fine and suspended jail sentence which if he offended again got him a convictionand jail time where he could reeducate himself to his hearts content.
Racist's are Bullies and need appropriate punishment......you have some people feeling sorry for Tex Walker on TV footy shows saying we need to wrap our arms around him???? No wonder Eddie has had enough....
It just seemed like a rite of passage that every WOG kid had to go through and that it was universally accepted as being ok...so I get why Thry and in particular his brother felt they were isolated and abused. I remember one migrant kid was found impaled on the wire fence on the oval , the wire on the water pipe railing had been shoved through his wrist, another Italian kid ended up shoved head first through a telephone box we had out the front of the school. The solution was to remove the phone box..nothing else was done because it was just a Wog kid who they said started the fight which was BS, all the school knew who was responsible but the head bully was also the head prefect.
Yep its in the past and racism which is really bullying just comes in different forms now, bit more sophisticated more targetting the mental fragility of the victims but still with the same motives..
You want to fix it then change the laws, heavily fine, jail people etc etc....appealing to their better side or trying educate them is a waste of time IMO. People like Tex Walker have been educated till there is nothing more to teach them but reverted to his natural ways with Robbie Young when he thought it was safe to do so. He needed a justice system that handed him a heavy fine and suspended jail sentence which if he offended again got him a convictionand jail time where he could reeducate himself to his hearts content.
Racist's are Bullies and need appropriate punishment......you have some people feeling sorry for Tex Walker on TV footy shows saying we need to wrap our arms around him???? No wonder Eddie has had enough....