Her Daughter Punched A Boy At School For Acting Inappropriately Toward Her, And While The School Threatened Suspension, She Thinks Her Daughter Should Be Rewarded
This 39-year-old woman and her daughter Penny, who’s only 11, have a very tight-knit relationship.
So, her daughter knows that she can tell her absolutely anything, and Penny rarely keeps any secrets from her.
“What Penny doesn’t keep from me is her very profound moral compass,” she explained.
“My daughter knows what is right and what is wrong, and I am very proud to have raised my daughter to be so strong.”
That’s why she was utterly surprised when she received a phone call from her daughter’s school the other day and found out Penny had apparently attacked another student. The most shocking part? Penny’s head teacher claimed the attack was “unprovoked.”
Now, during the phone call, she was not given much other information about the situation. This pushed her to drive down to her daughter’s school in hopes of getting to the bottom of what happened.
Once she got there, she learned that Penny had actually punched a boy in the face and was facing suspension from school over it.
However, after she heard Penny’s side of the story, she actually sided with her daughter.
“My daughter immediately proceeded to tell me that this boy had been following her around school, asking her out, and had not left her alone when she explicitly told him to,” she detailed.
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Then, the boy actually began grabbing Penny’s skirt! That was her daughter’s last straw and the reason why she punched the boy in the face.
Upon hearing what went down from her daughter, she looked the school’s headmaster right in the eye and asked what kind of culture the school was promoting. She also asked why no school staff put a stop to the boy’s inappropriate behavior and why Penny was at fault for defending herself.
While these were all valid questions, she never really got any answers to them. Rather, the headmaster just stated that violence was not permitted at school.
“And in response, I told him that in that situation, my daughter was using self-defense. I told him she was not getting any consequences at home and that she was going to instead be rewarded,” she revealed.
Later, when she and Penny left the school together, she took her daughter to get ice cream on their way home.
And in the wake of what happened, she’s wondering whether believing that her daughter didn’t deserve any repercussions for punching the boy was really so unreasonable or not.
Do you agree that her daughter did nothing wrong by defending herself? Should the boy be facing consequences for his actions?
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