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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ In the future if he inappropriately touches a girl in the hallway and she has a really negative reaction to it, are you also going to teach him that her reaction was 80% related to something else?[/quote]

This is a great way to think about it. You don't get to minimize someone else's reaction to something just because you think it's a bit much. That's not the way the world works. [/quote]

Well, you also don’t get to magnify the gravity of someone’s conduct if they [b]behaved in a normal way[/b] but inadvertently harmed someone abnormally sensitive. It’s pretty clear the child has emotional challenges - I’ve seen it before where a child dramatically overreacts to normal situations.

This is really about how the school is handling it in placing all the blame on OP’s son and magnifying the gravity of what he did. OP’s not wrong to pick up on that. What I suspect is that the sensitive child’s parents don’t really know or accept what is going on with their kid, and based on the extremity of his reaction, believe that the other kids are at fault. And this is likely not the first incident.

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I doubt if the push had been "normal" this would have escalated. OP admitted that the pushing was unacceptable. [/quote]

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