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
    15·
    3 months ago

    When that happened to me in kindergarten I broke the bully’s nose.

    I did not go back to that school.

    Drastic as it may sound @skizzles@lemmy.ml is right. Make sure your kid knows that physically defending yourself is 100% valid.

    If this kid has threatened your child with scissors and already been the first to strike, fuck em. The sooner these little shits learn the law of fuck around and find out the better.

      • Nakoichi [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        21·
        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.