<p>Middle school S got hit in the mouth with a tennis racket in his gym class last year. He had braces, so it was like my volleyball experience–except the teacher wouldn’t let him go to the nurse. He made him stand up, bleeding, in front of the class as “an example of what happens to kids who don’t follow instructions!” I thought this was totally inappropriate of the teacher, but I didn’t report it because, if I did, I was pretty sure that teacher would be picking on my scrawny kid the rest of the year.</p>