The kid supposedly just walked up and punched my kid in the cheek in class, and chased them with scissors just a few days ago (corroborated by the teacher).

I know shit happens, and they’re a resilient kid, so it’s not too big a deal. But I also want to raise hell to get this kid away from them. What’s the next incident going to be?

I understand the structural and societal issues here - the kid probably doesn’t have a great home life, and the school doesn’t really have anything they can do that will help him.

Idk, just feeling conflicted and looking for thoughts.

    • Nakoichi [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Not quite. I was on the cusp and had started before my fifth birthday and the bully was the same but hadn’t started till the next school year so I was 4 and he was 6, so they had the brilliant idea to make me go through kindergarten all over again in a virulently racist homophobic time and place and I was not going to endure that again. I chose independent study for almost the entirety of my education up till college and frankly it was the best thing that could have happened. I avoided the indoctrination machine and got to learn along side a bunch of other kids like me that rejected the draconian US school system from the get go. I was literally protesting the pledge of allegiance at four years old because my parents told me I didn’t have to participate and it felt weird as fuck anyway.