My daughter is 13 and a boy at school was accosting her, hitting her, tripping her. She came home and told me about it and that the teachers hadn't done anything to stop him. I told her to kick him in the nuts first chance she got. She did. I also told her that I'd stand beside her and fight the teachers and staff if they gave either one of us any crap. Nothing has happened except the bully boy has quit harassing the girls.
You gave good advise.
My mother told me to never start a fight but by God don't you ever run from one.
Got sent home from school once 9th grade but I didn't start it :O) the other gal did, also got sent home
...It was funny cause the principal sent us out of school 15 minutes apart...I waited for her cause she was my girlfriend and we just had a little spat and walked home from school together...:O)