jmatt
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...defending himself.
A co-worker of mine has a son at Dessau Middle School (Pflugerville ISD).
Let me say up front that anything I write is strictly from the point of view of my co-worker.
Her son and another kid (both 8th grade, about 13 years old) got in a scuffle the other day in PE. The "fight" was started by the other kid, and her son got the worst of it.
Essentially, a touch football game got a little heated and the other kid threw a football at hers then sucker-punched him. Her son then tried to retaliate.
About all that happened is that her son chased the other kid down and jumped on him and had to be pulled off. No punches (other than the first one) were thrown. That punch did however, open a pretty good gash in his cheek and there apparently is some infection. There will be a scar. A pretty good one probably. I've seen the pictures she took, not pretty, first there's the bruised and bleeding ones right after he got home, then the ones of his face all swollen up and red the next morning.
It took a couple of coaches to separate the kids. Both kids got in-school suspension (as you would expect).
One thing that shocked everyone here at work is that the coaches then called the cops (not Pflugerville PD, but Travis County Sheriff for some reason).
Now my co-worker has been informed that her son ONLY will be getting a ticket, and will probably be also arrested for assault. She's had to go hire a lawyer and is pretty freaked out about this entire thing. Both kids are football players (linemen) and apparently normally pretty good friends, so all of this comes as a pretty serious shock to everyone involved.
Of course, no of the other kids there saw anything.
Except, of course, the one kid jumping on the other (hard to miss that)...
My first reaction when I heard this was amazement that the coaches didn't handle this within the team. The biggest thing that shocked me though was that they did call the cops. And that the principal backed that up.
I know I didn't write this very well, but I'm just flabbergasted (good word, flabbergasted...) that this went beyond suspension and that charges and stuff are involved.
Seems that "back in the day" my coach would have just pulled out some boxing gloves and we'd have gone at it. Which usually lasted about two punches each. The we'd shake hands and be punished by the coaches (gassers, or running laps, and/or licks, that sort of thing), get some suspension, and that would be the end of it.
Does this sound normal? This whole thing sounds fishy. I know I should be taking my coworkers story with more than a grain of salt, but doesn't this punishment sound excessive? And no one here at work understands how the other kid will (apparently) get off scot-free..
Oh, get this, they are holding off on doing anything until after the TAKS (or whatever they're called now) tests...
A co-worker of mine has a son at Dessau Middle School (Pflugerville ISD).
Let me say up front that anything I write is strictly from the point of view of my co-worker.
Her son and another kid (both 8th grade, about 13 years old) got in a scuffle the other day in PE. The "fight" was started by the other kid, and her son got the worst of it.
Essentially, a touch football game got a little heated and the other kid threw a football at hers then sucker-punched him. Her son then tried to retaliate.
About all that happened is that her son chased the other kid down and jumped on him and had to be pulled off. No punches (other than the first one) were thrown. That punch did however, open a pretty good gash in his cheek and there apparently is some infection. There will be a scar. A pretty good one probably. I've seen the pictures she took, not pretty, first there's the bruised and bleeding ones right after he got home, then the ones of his face all swollen up and red the next morning.
It took a couple of coaches to separate the kids. Both kids got in-school suspension (as you would expect).
One thing that shocked everyone here at work is that the coaches then called the cops (not Pflugerville PD, but Travis County Sheriff for some reason).
Now my co-worker has been informed that her son ONLY will be getting a ticket, and will probably be also arrested for assault. She's had to go hire a lawyer and is pretty freaked out about this entire thing. Both kids are football players (linemen) and apparently normally pretty good friends, so all of this comes as a pretty serious shock to everyone involved.
Of course, no of the other kids there saw anything.
My first reaction when I heard this was amazement that the coaches didn't handle this within the team. The biggest thing that shocked me though was that they did call the cops. And that the principal backed that up.
I know I didn't write this very well, but I'm just flabbergasted (good word, flabbergasted...) that this went beyond suspension and that charges and stuff are involved.
Seems that "back in the day" my coach would have just pulled out some boxing gloves and we'd have gone at it. Which usually lasted about two punches each. The we'd shake hands and be punished by the coaches (gassers, or running laps, and/or licks, that sort of thing), get some suspension, and that would be the end of it.
Does this sound normal? This whole thing sounds fishy. I know I should be taking my coworkers story with more than a grain of salt, but doesn't this punishment sound excessive? And no one here at work understands how the other kid will (apparently) get off scot-free..
Oh, get this, they are holding off on doing anything until after the TAKS (or whatever they're called now) tests...
