YAY!!!
You have to be careful. Ian had a kid that picked on him in elementary school, and the teacher never did anything about it. She even had them sitting next to each other. Ian's a lot like me, he's really laid back, but when he reaches his limit, it's not pretty. One day the kid was stuffing grass in Ian's shorts, and he reached the limit, grabbed the kid's arm and twisted it up behind his back. He broke the boy's arm, technically a spiral fracture, and it's a damned good thing I was friends with his mom or we could have been sued and had Ian thrown out of school. Oh, and Ian was a black belt in tai kwon do and knew better than to use any of that on him.
So the next bully was in middle school, and was smacking Ian with a jump rope handle in gym class. Ian managed to grab the rope and took it away, but the kid decided to do a sneak attack. It ended up with Ian on the floor and the kid having to get pulled off of him by the gym teacher, twice. Zero tolerance escalated it to having to go to court, which kept getting delayed until summer when none of the witnesses were available. Ian ended up with community service for defending himself. BTW, he was 6'4" and about 250 lbs at the time, the bully was about a head shorter than him. The judge couldn't believe the kid started the fight.
I just said I could do it.What I didn't say is I can't bend over..and straighten up because of that stupid heart thing so I went thru most of the class looking like the hunchback of Notre Dame..all hunched over until I could safely straighten back up without the heart running a marathon all on its own...I can't run since the knee replacment.But it wouldn't be pretty if I could.
Parents can get weird when you tell them their kid is a bully. There was a kid when we lived in HI that was a year or 2 older than Ian, that I actually saw punch Andrew in the stomach when he was 4 years old. That would have made this kid 9 or 10. I went over to his house and told his mother, expecting her to call him inside (he was riding his bike in the street in front of his house at the time), but she totally blew it off. The only thing that kept me from making his life a living hell was that he was caught by base security setting fires in empty housing units about a week later. Didn't see him outside after that.
It's so we can get other things done, that we can't do in the evenings. Just switching up our hours, we'll see how it works out.
And on the bad news front, sson is leaving for Afghanistan at midnight.
Thank you Will.
Tell your son thank you for his service and we all hope he returns safe and sound
