Reply #72: FANTASTIC!!!!! Only way to deal w/bullies is straight forward!

[rasputin1952]

Speaking of school stories, when I was in AZ, I got a call at work from the Asst Principal that my son was in trouble. He was in the 4th grade at the time.

He saw a girl being picked on in the schoolyard, some jerks were calling her skinny, four-eyed, ugly, stuff like that. John didn't know the girl, but he went over and asked these clods why they were picking on the girl, this escalated into a small argument, and the "head bully" tried to pop John one. John deflected the blow, and popped the kid right in the nose, just as one of the teachers was coming out the door. Before she could get there, John had the bully on the ground pounding the crap out of him.

When I got to the school, The AP and the teacher were in the office, w/John sitting outside the door. I asked him what happened, and he just started crying. I gave him a hug and went in to find out the situation. After being told what had happened, I asked what the officials wanted to do, the AP looked at the teacher and said, "I didn't see anything", teacher responded, "neither did I". Then, off the record, they told me this group was trouble from the get go, and they hoped this might break them up once the "leader" got knocked about. It worked, and the bullies gave my son a very wide berth after that. He was afraid he was going to get into trouble w/me, but I told him he did the right thing by protecting the girl. We all learned a valuable lesson that day...:)