[GWN7]

When my son was in grade 2 I received a phone call from his school telling me there was a incident between him and another child. The other child had a stick and was using it as a gun. He poked my son with it and the stick hit my son just below his eye. A inch higher and it would have been in my sons eye. The other kid was suspended for a week under the schools zero tolerance policy towards violence.

This was twenty years ago. There was no CNN trucks outside my home waiting for a interview. No moral outrage. Just two kids who learned a lesson that day (and the other kids parents). The other kid learned not to poke someone with a stick at school and his parents learned to find him a sitter for the week. Mine learned not to let someone poke him with a stick cause it hurts. Life went on.