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posted 8 years ago by deem_bastille
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if the caller called after the jh kid's head was 'bashed in', then how is this her fault? the caller kid [yeah, I know he was a kid] wasn't forceful enough with his call.

sorry. I teach elementary school in a rough inner city school area and we have do talk about things that we really shouldn't talk about. [some kids don't know their address]. so when we talk about safety, I stress the importance of calming down as much as you can but still remaining forceful in your voice.

this kid :there's a boogeyman in the house' was so snoringly boring that I had to side with the operator.

Reading the paper can really be depressing. Mr. Dithers fired Dagwood again.

[–] SataiDelen 8 years ago

Some kids are just, "soft." They are not forceful, and therefore when confronted by an "authority figure" they back down because they become unsure of themselves. If this kid's parents psychologically/emotionally bashed him on a regular basis by telling him he's wrong, or did something wrong, or whatever, and rarely, if ever, said something positive to him, that will wear the kid down. So, when he called the dispatch operator, and she confronted him by telling him that his call isn't an emergency, and he's wasting her time, she's essentially telling him he's wrong, and he backs down, in spite of the fact that he's trying to do something right. It says he has little to no self-confidence, so he doubts himself when trying to do something, and it's easy to convince him that what he's doing, he shouldn't do.

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[–] LoupGarouTFTs 8 years ago

I agree that the kid wasn't forceful enough--in terms of the story, let's not make it about real life--but on the other hand, she was too strident in her disbelief from square one. I mean, she has a "cop's instinct," but nothing set off alarm bells when the kid mentioned a bogeyman AND that his friend wasn't waking up? Really?