[cashflyer]

Kids who are taught to run and tell for every little thing learn to be subordinate, and will be targets their whole life. (Or possibly their emotions will erupt in a fit of gunfire.)

If you fail to back your kid now, why would he expect you to back him later in life?


Your kid was right. Now you need to back him up, and you need to back the school down.

One possible track you can take is: Make this their fault and their problem. Find out exactly what their policy is and use it against them. Were they properly trained to identify bullying? Were there proper numbers of employees supervising when this happened? Insist that he reacted appropriately given their lack of oversight and lack of enforcement of their alleged "zero tolerance policy". Tell them you need to see in writing what their corrective action will be toward their system failure - so that you can be assured your son will not be in further danger due to their negligence. Let them know that self defense is not a crime, but that assault IS. Etc.