Is it normal to encourage a kid with down syndrome to bully someone?
When I was in grade school, there was a kid named Stevie with Down Syndrome who lived a block away and would take the same bus as me to school, although he had special education classes in a different part of the building. Stevie was a year older than me and my mom felt sorry for him and would always make me play with him. Stevie was a lovable innocent kid and we all liked him.
There was another kid who would take the same bus as us who was in my year at the school whom I didn't like. This other kid, Justin, was really annoying, would chew his pencils all day in class, and was the teacher's pet. Justin tattled on me for allegedly plagiarizing part of an essay we had to write for English class. Justin would also talk trash about me and other kids in the class behind our backs.
I decided to get even with Justin by siccing Stevie on him. Justin was small for his age and Stevie probably had 25 lbs on him. So I and some other kids would encourage Stevie to bully Justin while we all waited for the bus to pick us up on school days. One time we convinced Stevie to grab Justin's backpack and dump Justin's books in mud. Another time, we got Stevie to punch Justin in the back. My favorite was when another kid held Justin down on the ground and I tricked Stevie into farting in Justin's face!
Is it normal to encourage a kid with Down Syndrome to bully someone?