[unclebilly]

My 12 year old son was practicing for an upcoming basketball game during lunch hour last Wednesday. He took the ball from an opponent who happens to be the biggest kid in the school and outweighs my son by over 100 lbs.

The kid then picked up my son horizontally and dropped him on the gym floor resulting in my son getting a concussion. It’s his second concussion in a year.

Here is what it has cost my son…

U14 GS and SL ski races which actually matter for FIS points. This was this weekend. He also missed a day of training that included ski cross training from a national level coach on the national team’s course for a ski cross race in 2 weeks.

School basketball game.

2 days of school.

The boy that did this is 13 and I’ve known him since he was 5. He’s not a bad kid but hasn’t had the benefit a great family life. He has anger management issues and this isn’t his first violent outburst at school.

We live in a very small community.

My options are:

1. Do nothing and hope that the school provides this kid with some mandatory anger management help (they can’t make anything mandatory). It’s doubtful his mom and grandma will be supportive of this.

2. Press charges. This will likely result in a bad long term outcome for this kid but ought to get him the help he needs.

3. Try to coax the police into paying him and his family a visit and try to get him some help without formally charging him.

My kid could have been seriously hurt. In actuality he was and we still don’t have the clearance from a doc for him to resume sports including gym.

I have an early morning call with the principal in the morning. I am leaning to option 3 pending what he has to say.

What would you do?

The more I think about what this cost my son, the more upset I am with the entire ordeal. My son doesn’t get a ‘do over’ for that training opportunity or the FIS points that he lost this past weekend. $10,000 couldn’t buy that chance. If he had permanent damage, who cares about the skiing?