Use of physical force

Princedog
Sun, 04 Mar 2007 00:19:09 +0000

Did an administrator see this or something? Otherwise he’d only get in trouble if the other kids report it, right? (if it happened the way it did then this would seem to odd to me that they would actually report their friend but people are crazy so who knows).

If this is the case though, he should work it out before school I’d say. Get in contact with the other people and explain that he felt he had no options and that he hopes there are no hard feelings, etc. This will probably put his mind to rest and even if a teacher did see it, if they work it out now when they get called in to talk about it perhaps things won’t escalate and it will explained as just joking around.

You have to watch out for what you keep digitally. Just like people used to say “don’t put anything in writing you might regret” - I wouldn’t recommend people keep texts or pictures in cell phones or digital cameras that they wouldn’t want other people to see. This does not mean these kids had a right to take your son’s phone - obviously they didn’t, and it was way out of line to harass anyone present about it. But most people have no sense of personal boundaries when it comes to things like that. Also, anyone can see this in a variety of situations. If he lost his phone and one of his teachers opened it to see whose it was and happened upon something that could be embarassing, etc.