Seems our school isn't the only one then.
Last week our son was suspended half a day because he hit a girl that repeatedly tried to kick him in the groin.
She got suspended for half a day as well.
He got suspeneded for for touching her (behaving in an unsafe manner) AND for not just going to find one of the teachers. The incident took place outside at lunch.
The girl was suspended the half day for repeatedly trying to kick him in the groin. She messed up by telling the assistant principal that it was an accident. The assistant principal said you don't accidentally try to kick someone in the groin.
I told my son he did the right thing. Had he merely looked for an adult/teacher, chances are since the girl hadn't connected with her kick, and since it would have been his word against hers, chances are that nothing would have been done.
See they got half day suspensions because this was totally out of character for both of them. My son is a 4.0 student and member of the honor society.
I don't like the idea that he was suspended for defending himself but the girl got what she deserved.
See that evening was a band/choir concert at school. Because of her suspension she was not allowed on school property. She is in choir and her failure to show at the concert givers her an automatic E for her choir grade for the end of the first marking period of the school year. That's gotta hurt considering she was an A/B student.
My son isn't in band nor choir so he keeps his 4.0 status for this first marking period. I still think it sort of stinks that he has a half day suspension on his record for defending himself, but oh well.