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# Someone needed five across the eyes and didn't get it
From Bullied teen awarded income for life
During the case, the judge heard that, while at Woodberry Public School in 1995, Mr Cox was “throttled” by an older boy, and received compensation from the Victims Compensation Tribunal over the attack. By the time he went to high school, his mother said he thought school a “scary proposition”.
For the first three years of primary school I didn’t have any friends at all, I just wandered the school grounds aimlessly at lunch. I do remember getting beat up a couple of times, but I didn’t get any compo.
“He didn’t like crowds, he didn’t like teachers, didn’t like the work,” she said.
Me either!! Unfortunately for me, my parents are unreconstructed normal people and said, in actions more than words, “Suck it up, bitch!”
His mother said he rarely went out, had no friends, and was on a pension. “He just locks himself in his room playing PlayStation games,” she said.
And he’s getting more compo?!? Fuck me, this is a gravy train I need to get on. With a little concentration and effort, I could lock myself in my room and play playstation all day.
In my neighbourhood there was a family that babied their kids and didn’t force them to play by the man’s game. One of them ended up having a breakdown in Sydney, presumably as an after effect of all the speed she was taking. The other one is 28 and lives at home with his parents and works as a Stop/Go man.
In my day, we called them dropouts and blamed their parents for being losers. Apparently now we call them disadvantaged and blame the school system for being what it is – prison for kids.
Our infantilisation of ourselves continues apace. Next step, some kid sues the school system cause the other kids wouldn’t pick him for cricket games, and wins.
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