[Skip Ripley]

Yep, a friend of mine's son was jumped by a kid while at school. He fought the kid off and then took him down.
His punishment was identical to the kid who attacked him! I don't think he even threw a punch and they still suspended him!

[taxcontrol]

Every place is different, but I have heard of parents in your situation actually filing suit against the school board on the grounds that the right to self defence is not supported by such school policies.

[PLK]

Yep, a friend of mine's son was jumped by a kid while at school. He fought the kid off and then took him down. His punishment was identical to the kid who attacked him! I don't think he even threw a punch and they still suspended him!

School discipline was a topic on a thread a few days ago and the issue of "punish everyone equally" came up. An astute Freeper pointed out how the left has done essentially the same to Israel in the world community. Homicide bombers kill Jews - Israel defends itself - world condemns Israel equally with Palestinian whackos. It's a leftist thing, I don't understand it either.

[sparkydragon]

They do the same if you just stand there and take it. Although our school does have a method for getting out of the punishment. All you have to do is know ahead of time that someone is going to beat you up and tell a teacher, principal or counselor on three seperate occasions before it happens and not do anything to defend yourself and it might be sufficient to get you off. If they bothered to document it instead of brushing you off.

sparky

[Doctor Stochastic]

It was that way in the early fifties too.