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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]

You're putting words in my mouth. I never said "entirely appropriate." It's somewhat appropriate; it serves a function but has some potential costs. Especially among teenage boys, violence comes with positives and negatives. The negatives are obvious, but it can be an important tool for combating this kind of misbehavior. It's how I learned lessons of that sort as a teenage boy, and it worked. I got my ass kicked, and I came out better able to navigate relationships with my peers. I think an outcome where OP's son gets his ass kicked a little bit would likely have been better, for all parties involved, than what happened.[/quote]

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