.After learning something important about her son, a mother in Texas chose to teach him a lesson. That kid was making trouble at school. The school’s administrators went up to his mother and told her that he was hitting other students. Because the mother in Texas thought her child had gone too far by calling other kids “idiots” and “stupid,” she made her bully son wear a T-shirt that said, “I am a BULLY.” Mom wants people in her neighborhood to know that her son is a bully at Greenleaf Elementary School.
She knew that other kids at school knew her son was mean to other kids. So she made her son wear an embarrassing T-shirt in front of hundreds of people at school and thousands of people online who saw his mother’s Facebook post. She did this to show that she believed them. Look at the picture of the shirt below. A mom from Texas named Star told KTRK-TV, “He was calling other boys stupid and idiots.” Star asked that only her first name be used. “I’m a very traditional parent.” My kids aren’t spoiled by me. I’m honest with them about everything.
Star put up a picture of her son wearing the T-shirt on her Facebook page so that as many people as possible would know that he was mean. Star wrote, “I put it up so that I could get in touch with the parents of any kids my son may have picked on so that he could apologize to each of them personally.” Some people thought Star punished her bully kid too harshly, but she stood by what she did and protected herself against the criticism on the internet. Star said, “I asked him what he learned from it, and he said,
‘I learned that I didn’t like how that made me feel, and I don’t want anyone else to feel that way because of me.'” “That’s exactly what I meant for him to understand.” People who study how kids grow and learn don’t agree with Star’s sentence. A child therapist at Baylor College of Medicine said Star was not taking good care of her son, even though he was a bully who was hurting other kids. “It’s not a good idea to make your child feel bad about themselves and fuel a negative identity in an elementary school child,” the child therapist said.