This is how it is these days..........
My nephew got suspended for 15 days because he picked up some mulch to throw at 3 older boys who were picking on him and pushing him. They actually tried to have the police press charges on him for assault. My sister had to take her lawyer to a school board meeting to threaten a civil suit to get them to back down, reinstate him and expunge it from his record. The principal and the superintendent of the school district stated at the meeting that kids do not have the right to protect themselves at school. You should have heard the protests form the other parents in the meeting. To this day they will suspend a kid for hitting an attacker, and not do anything to the original attacker if he is struck back. If the attacked kid does nothing but tattle, the original attacker is chastised, and the so called tattler is ridiculed in front of everyone. They do not do this to my son because I threatened a lawsuit the first time it happened and had a face to face talk with the principal on his way to his car on a very dark evening. They will never take away my sons right to protect himself. That is exactly why we have Virginia Tech and Columbine incidents. A lot of these kids are ridiculed in school and school officials refuse to do anything the the perpetrators.
