A friend got a call from the principal one evening,
"Jerry, I just called to touch base. We had an incident today.
Two boys were picking on a kid who often gets bullied. I guess
It got a bit nasty, and your son threw one of them against a locker,
And hit the other. Several times. No one is hurt badly, some bruises and
small cuts. In light of our zero violence tolerance policy, I'm calling to
let you know your son was involved in a violent incident."
My friend was telling me this over the CB the next morning,
And he was pissed! Couldn't understand why his boy was singled
out, and his parents called to get him in trouble.
I laughed. Told him,
"Hey, I know the principle well. He is a good guy, had three good
boys. A bit arrogant, but all 4 are decent guys who would have done
the same thing your boy did. Your son hit someone, they had to
do something. So he did.
The absolute least he could do!
And he prefaced the "bad news" with a description of why your son did it.
A description that would have made most dad's trying to raise a
solid, honorable man, damn proud."
