There have been a rise in businesses claiming to solve all of your bullying/school violence problems for a sum of cash.
When even the school and the police can't protect you, parents are desperately turning to these businesses and hiring scary looking men to protect their children.On a news article about a parent explaining that
the bullying against their child grew worse after they reported it to the police, several comments began sprouting suggesting that
they hire an odd jobs service to resolve the matter with their own hands.Curious to see what this was all about, we put up a post requesting for such services and received several contacts.
One service explained that they had men with tattoos all over their arms. Once hired, they will wait for their child after school and accompany him home until rumors begin spreading around the school that the child has mobster members in the family.Another service specializes in handling bullying from teens who are no longer students/have been expelled. They claimed that
they will resort to violence but "hit them in a way where it won't show" so that charges can't be pressed. "Who do you think these iljins look up to the most? It's not the police, it's not the prosecutors.
They look up to gangsters."
One service claimed that
they've completed over 40 requests over the past 2-3 years and have never failed to resolve the matter once. As for the costs, it can run
up to $5,000 for a month and around $1,500 to $1,800 for two weeks.
A member of a school violence victims committee said, "I can completely understand why parents would spend that kind of money to hire these services to protect their children. What I'm wondering is
why we've let it get to this point and why we are still not doing anything about it."
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