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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's a shame the teacher was there, your son was about to learn a valuable lesson.[/quote]

This thread is so odd. A girl just died in CA today after a dumb fight. Yes, trash talking is wrong. It happens every day. We need to teach our kids restraint with words and actions, self control. That teacher helped avoid something potentially terrible. I’d want to profusely thank them.[/quote]

And getting your ass kicked is a great way for a kid to learn self control. [/quote]

Just so I'm really clear, you think it is entirely appropriate and should be completely socially acceptable for a person, any person, to be assaulted because they said that somebody "sucks at basketball"?

(Not OP, and I understand this is counterfactual.  But this point of view, if PP actually means it, is fascinating and dangerous.)[/quote]

Not the PP, but I don’t think most posters are saying violence as a response is okay.

But I think there were 2 wrongs here and 2 wrongs don’t make a right. And instead of focusing on what her kid did wrong, OP is enabling her kid’s narrative of himself as the victim who is being wronged by the school, no one is in his side etc. When a) she doesn’t have all the facts, just the POV of her own kid, and b) kid B is not her kid to worry about (nor will the school tell her anything about him).

She needs to focus on what is going on with her own kid. Yes, trash talking is normal at this age. But it’s still not a great behavior.

Also, I have boys and know there is a difference between the run of the mill trashing talking to someone’s face (which seems to be a weird bonding mechanism at times) and the behind someone’s back trash talking.  [/quote]

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