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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Personally, I would file a police report for my kids if I would file one if an adult had done that thing to me. I don’t think that it being done by a kid or to my kid makes something not an assault.[/quote]

What a ridiculous response. These things are not in any way equivalent. If a stranger walked up and punched me in the arm, I might very well call the police but if a child does this I would not. You are not very bright but think you are clever. [/quote]

Stop equating elementary school kids punching vs. choking. One of these is way more serious than the other. A kid who chokes another kid and threatens with a weapon garners a way more severe level of concern. My kids have been hit in school and I was not feeling like I needed to do more beyond ensure the school was separating the kids, tell my kid it was ok to hit back, etc.

But a kid with hands on my kids neck trying to CHOKE them?? For one, I'd take my kid to see a doctor to ensure no larynx injury, and for another, yes, I'd consider a police report and I absolutely would file one if I didn't get a sense that the school was doing enough for that kind of behavior.  If you have a kid who CHOKES other kids, you have some sort of dysfunctional family life. If you dismiss a kids another kid, you are a part of the problem.[/quote]

DP.  I think you're reading a bit into things.  You seem to read "choking" as purposefully squeezing the neck until unconscious or dead.  I read it as, kids hit, kids grab arms, kids grab necks.  There's an idea on DCUM that once children enter grade school, they are too old for all of that.  But hitting is still developmentally normal in lower elementary.  And kids do hit each other in lower elementary.  They also threaten each other, sometimes with very colorful language.  [/quote]

No, I'm not reading into it, the original thread that prompted this one was a parent who posted that their elementary school kid had been choked by another kid (along with the kid verbally stating they would cut them open with a knife). And as a parent of an older elementary school boy who, yes, rough houses, have never seen kids grab necks and choke. Like, wtaf are you excusing that for? Also, if my kid said they were choked, I'd ask for details to understand what happened. If it falls in the category of purposeful squeezing their neck so they struggled to breathe, yeah, that's not normal at all. [/quote]

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