Legally, Does My Child Have Rights?

[fabsroman]

That really sucks about your son beating the snot out of the bully and getting detention for it. With two adult witnesses saying that my son was merely defending himself, I would have been up in arms about them not stopping the fight and I would be even more infuriated that something like this would be on my son's record and that my son would have to spend any time in detention. That is utterly crazy.

In real life, not school life, a person has the right to defend themselves. Can you imagine having to spend time in jail because somebody came up to you, hit you, and you hit him back, and all the witnesses are saying that the other guy started it.

As fired up as you are about this searching of your son, I think I would have been more fired up and retained an attorney over the detention for fighting issue when my child was clearly in the right.

By the way, I feel bad for the kid too. I really hate when parents are bad parents. Like I say, you need a license to drive a car, you need a license to carry a gun, you have to go through a background check to buy a gun, yet anybody can have kids. Just amazing.