[onewhippedpuppy]

Originally Posted by berettafan

Seems a school should be subject to civil liability if they order a child not to defend himself and said child gets a beating from a bully. The school, by punishing kids for defending themselves, is taking the responsibility of keeping bullies at bay. When they fail they should pay.

That's an interesting angle. If they remove the ability for kids to protect themselves, they should be responsible for doing so. Which we all know is totally unrealistic, there's no way that a few teachers can effectively police hundreds of kids. Furthermore, the last thing that I want to teach my kid is to let others take care of him. Nice socialist training there.....