[summer]

I'm going to reserve judgement on this one.

If your kid was the one who received five stitches from this student, who admits he threw the first punch, gave him five stitches, you might be yelling that the school district didn't do enough by expelling the student. This schools district has a written code of student conduct, like all school districts, and, the consequences. For givinig your kid an injury requiring stitches, the consequence is expulsion.

This lawsuit is totally bogus, since the consequence would have been expulsion no matter what color or gender of student delivered the injury resulting in stitches.

With respect to whatever happened to you, you may have a legitimate gripe. But this kid and his father do not. They should be thanking the school district for not having this kid arrested -- and, the parents of the kid who got stitches may in fact be demanding right now that such an arrest should take place. School districts are not always right, but, they are not always wrong either. Expulsion from this school was an appropriate punishment in this matter. (And, any private school would have done the same in 2 seconds flat.)

[farmfriend]

But this kid and his father do not.

I'm not trying to defend this kid or his dad. I'm just saying there may be more to this story than we are being told. It may not be as simple as a troubled kid throwing the first punch and getting expelled. I know this seems black and white from the story but it may not be. It is possible that the boy was having trouble with other students on a repeated basis that the school was doing nothing about. If this were true, his poor grades, behavior and final punch would be understandable, even justified. My point is, we don't know. I'm not going to judge the validity of the law suit or the boys behavior on what I am told here. Things are never that simple.