Steve Rogers was sure that yes, Tony Stark was categorically against the usurpation of state functions. Most of the commenters onthis post in the AITAH communityon Reddit would seem to be in favor of Iron Man. However, jokes aside – after all,the issuethat this post addresses is actually much more serious.
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The author of the post has two kids and the eldest is a 15 Y.O. boy
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The author’s son has a bully in his class whose behavior is really out of any bounds
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The school administration was involved several times but this led actually to nothing
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So, the Original Poster (OP) and her husband have two children, and the eldest of them, 15 Y.O., is in the same class as the local bully. At least, according to the author of the post, that student regularly insults other children, makes racist remarks, and generally behaves extremely aggressively.
The OP says that the school administration got involved several times, but everything was limited to two short-term suspensions for this student. Now we’ll no longer know what took place there: negligence of the school principal, unwillingness to take decisive measures or something else. The fact remains that the bully clearly felt his impunity.
The beating inflicted on the bully turned out to be serious – he ended up in the ICU, according to the OP’s words. And the next day, the parents learned with no less horror that their own son was among those participants in the fight who managed to escape. However, the boy was sincerely confident that he’d done the right thing – even despite the outcome of the fight.
And here the parents’ opinions differed – however, about whether it was worth punishing their son for fighting at all. The mother was sure that the bully got what he deserved, but the dad, considering how seriously the boy was beaten, insisted on punishment for his son.The parentsprobably didn’t even think about the fact that, given everything that has happened, a lawyer is more relevant for the teen than grounding or something of the sort.
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Well, the idea of vigilantism permeates our culture through and through (damn it, I can give you offhand a dozen films or books where the hero administers justice with their own hands, and not one where the hero simply goes to court and brings the matter to justice), so, school vigilantism is a fairly common thing nowadays.
Be that as it may, bullying at school is a serious problem of our time, as well as unreasonable vigilante justice, andour societyhas yet to find effective ways to solve these problems. By the way, what solutions do you, our dear readers, see here?
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