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Sounds like a great kid, I'd vote for him.

More and more I'm planning on having my kids homeschooled.

Whoa...the thought of me with kids is weird. >_>
 
My daughter's school had a similar rule but we taught her to do what she needed to do and we'd back her up. She's only 5'2" and skipped a grade to boot so she generally was one of the smaller ones in her classes. One day a boy tried to pants her and she decked him (and made him cry). The boy had the nerve to complain to a teacher who'd witnessed at least part of the event. The teacher was wise enough to laugh at the boy and pretend nothing had happened. :D

That daughter has been teaching 7th grade for 4 years and has gone back to school for her Phd and is now teaching teachers. (Unfortunately, one thing she had to do was explain all the normal things she is forced to leave home and that they now couldn't take to school with them such as pocket knives, pepper spray, etc. :(
 
Two of the "Great Lies" of our PC time- "Violence never solved anything" and "It takes two to start a fight".
 
I too have fended off my own share of bullies.

You learn a lot about fear and bravery and your own worth in the process.

Intentional or not, these zero justice policies have the effect of raising a generation of kids who know only fear, but not bravery or their own worth.

Not to mention justice.

Inherently unjust policies will not teach justice.
 
So has the grandkid had any further problems?
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Not really. The little bugger's learned an important lesson, namely that if it doesn't look like violence, they can't really call it violence.

As an example, his brother was having a problem with one of the kids in his class. So Chris meets him as they get wait to get picked up and puts his backpack on the ground. Sure enough, the boy who was giving his brother problems came up and tried to pick a fight.

We open the van door and hear Chris say, "Come on, Mom's waiting." His brother takes off in a jog and Chris reaches for his backpack. When he went to spin it around and put it on he did so just a little too hard, a little too fast, and smacked the other kid right across the face.

The kid's nose is bloodied, and he's on the ground screaming and crying. Sure enough, Chris gets snatched up and yanked to the VP's office. Even the officer they have watching the kids when they leave told her that it looked like an accident.

Back in the van his mom looks at him and tells him, "You need to be a little more careful." He looked her dead in the eye and said, "I was careful."

Other than that, he's taken to resolving issues with pranks, when he can. You know, the simple application of a little humiliation from time to time.

The most recent thing that I know he's done was to superglue a fellow student to the cafeteria seat. Apparently this kid was teasing one of the girls in his class, a girl Chris likes. So Chris stole a tube of super glue out of his dad's crafts kit, cut the top off, and resealed the lid. He carried it with him for -3- days, until the kid got up during lunch to go to the restroom.

Chris got permission to dump his tray, and as he walked past the kids seat squeezed the tube of superglue. The kid never noticed as he sat down. The empty tube was dropped in the trash with the rest of his tray.

This would be a good time to mention that apparently the boys parents work a good 45 miles away, on the east side of Dallas. So he got to spend several hours, standing in his Underoo's, in the Principal's office. Apparently this 'tough' kid likes Spiderman.

If you haven't figured it out, Chris is one of those kids that you have to punish for some of the things he's done, but you're fighting laughter while you do it.
 
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