Tuesday, October 14, 2008

The bully most often overlooked

is the one who seeks to get someone else in trouble in order to make himself feel good.
I knew there would be another shoe to drop since Thing 1's behavior improved so greatly in school--making it harder for others to tattle on him for nothing. So apparently it's a huge sin that someone chose to stand too close to him and got lightly tapped with his outstretched belt as he re-fastened it. And standing next to the other kid who was off his medication today and decided to mock the assistant teacher's English accent suddenly made all the other kids accuse him of the same behavior. No, my child's far from sainthood--but his own speech issues make it nearly impossible for him to fake a foreign accent.
So my sensitive child cried as he was told that he would get a detention next time these things happened. By adults he trusted.

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