It would have been far better to just drop from the sky on them, deliver his load of whoop ass, tell them who he was and that next time it would be even worse, and then disappear.
Exactly.
Are we the only adult males who paid attention to how Batman does things?
Sheesh.
I got a call from the Principal the day he got the letter with an offer of a meeting the next day. I showed up to find the Principal, the school counselor, and a representative from the District.
The told me all about their "zero tolerance" policy on bullying and fighting. Basically it was that if my kid defended himself from these creeps he'd get the same punishment they did for fighting.
I told them "Here's Clan Lurkers policy on fighting. If he's defending himself I want him to end the fight as quickly as possible. If that means he breaks an arm or a jaw or a neck then so be it. I didn't spend all that money on Tae Kwon Do lessons for him to get stomped on by a bunch of two bit thugs."
"And here's MY policy on your zero tolerance policy. If you throw my kid out for defending himself against thugs you allowed to bully my kid that lawyer I copied is going to take an awful lot of money out of your budget. Do we understand each other?"
The room got awfully quiet. Then the District Meat Puppet said: "We'll make sure this doesn't happen again Mr. Lurker. There's no need to get the Courts involved."
My son wasn't troubled again.
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