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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP. When something similar happened when my DC was in middle school (racist but not homophobic language), my DC punched the perpetrator, knocked him down, and told him that he’d do worse if he heard the language again. The perpetrator wasn’t hurt but everyone on the playground saw it. My DC then got a half-hearted detention from the principal along with verbal messaging that standing up and defending his friends was a good thing to do. The principal didn’t even call us; I only found out about the incident because a friend heard about it from her kid. From what I heard, the problem ended quickly.

Playground justice does work for stuff like this. [/quote]

I doubt it.  Violence is not tolerated no matter how noble the reason.   Zero tolerance for fighting.  Kids can’t knock someone to the ground because they don’t like what the person said. There’s no way a principal would let it go.

Every day there are kids using racist and cruel language.  Imagine if everyone got into a physical fight over it?  [/quote]

They did.  It was called The Civil War.[/quote]

Ok.  It did not happen that way.   Principals cannot tolerate physical violence.

My high school daughter had her phone stolen out of her backpack in the side pocket when she was in the hall.  One girl bumped her while the other took the phone.  She chased them down, tried to grab the phone. There was a small scuffle and they both got suspended for zero tolerance on fighting.  Not all that fair that the one girl stole her phone and my daughter was taking back what was hers and they both got suspended.  But that’s how it went.  [/quote]

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