“If children are afraid to stand up for themselves, then your policy protects and enables bullies.”
Mom’s response to principal when both her daughter and the boy who was 2 years older than her 7 year old daughter (who finally retaliated after the teacher wouldn’t take the problem seriously) had a bloodied plug of hair pulled from her head and got a kick to the private parts for his trouble. Both children got suspended for two days. But I see the mom’ point. What WAS the child to do? In the book, she’d told the teacher twice that the boy was picking on her, and the teacher not only didn’t reprimand the boy, but told the girl that “he probably just likes you”. I fear that this type of idiocy is based on true life.
