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Just thought about a fight I was in years ago... what should I have done?

First, this happened back in 6th grade, now I'm a Junior in HS.

Second, we're both Indian. I've found Indians you aren't friends with tend to always compete to be better, this *might* be why he hated me.

Anyway, every now and then we'd have little standoffs in the bathrooms that he initiated. We'd do the whole scene where we stand tall up to each other. Then, usually a friend or two of mine was there so he never did anything.

That happened a couple times along with looks at me in the hallway.

Then, one day he snapped. It's the end of the day and everyone is getting ready to go home. He comes up to me and pushes me from behind. We threw some punches at each other, and this is the first real fight of this grade in middle school so a huge crowd forms. I should mention that my science teacher is 10 feet away who does nothing and I'm his best student, always had above a 100% in it. I get a bunch of hits on him after he throws one at me first. He runs out the door then and proceeds to tell the principle. She tells us to come down to her office in the morning.

Edit: He told her that I hit his ear 😕

Later that day at home I tell my dad what happened and he tells me I did the right thing. I never hit him first and never did anything for him to have anger towards me. All I did was defend myself because he hit me first.

The next morning, we go to the principles office and she hears both of our stories. I tell her all the people that were there too. She called down like 10 kids and realized he started it, but since all those people were on my side, they said he hit me a lot and I just defended blah blah blah. She called my dad and explained how everyone was siding with me.

Then, she gives him 5 days of OSS, but gives me 3 days ISS.

To this day, I don't know what the hell I should have done and why I got that ISS. I mean hell, do I just let him hit me?

I honestly don't care about those three days, all my teachers came to me personally to hand me my work and everything, but I'm not sure what I did to deserve those 3 days of ISS.
 
Any fights in school, regardless of who started it...is automatic suspension around here. Just be glad it was in school.
 
OSS? ISS? WTF are those?

And in middle school (and high school too, for that matter), principals don't let you get away with anything they don't approve of, no matter what your reason was, how right you were to do what you did, or even if what you did was against the rules. Every infraction is a chance to make an example. I got at least 3 detentions my senior year for "not following directions", b/c I did something stupid and they didn't have a rule written down for it.
 
Originally posted by: TheLonelyPhoenix
OSS? ISS? WTF are those?

And in middle school (and high school too, for that matter), principals don't let you get away with anything they don't approve of, no matter what your reason was, how right you were to do what you did, or even if what you did was against the rules. Every infraction is a chance to make an example. I got at least 3 detentions my senior year for "not following directions", b/c I did something stupid and they didn't have a rule written down for it.

Out of School Suspension - and had to do community service
In School Suspension

I just feel it's very stupid to use it to set an example.... when two people get caught up in the heat of an argument, a rule isn't going to stop them
 
I got stabbed in the abdomen with a pencil in 7th grade (I stole his chocolate cupcake), ended up in the ER, and the freak who did it got no punishment while I got 3 Saturday detentions. Schools aren't fair.
 
Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend
I got stabbed in the abdomen with a pencil in 7th grade (I stole his chocolate cupcake), ended up in the ER, and the freak who did it got no punishment while I got 3 Saturday detentions. Schools aren't fair.

damn, that's by far worse than my case
 
Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo
Originally posted by: TheLonelyPhoenix
OSS? ISS? WTF are those?

And in middle school (and high school too, for that matter), principals don't let you get away with anything they don't approve of, no matter what your reason was, how right you were to do what you did, or even if what you did was against the rules. Every infraction is a chance to make an example. I got at least 3 detentions my senior year for "not following directions", b/c I did something stupid and they didn't have a rule written down for it.

Out of School Suspension - and had to do community service
In School Suspension

I just feel it's very stupid to use it to set an example.... when two people get caught up in the heat of an argument, a rule isn't going to stop them

Ah, gotcha.

And yes, it is stupid. But then again, HS school administration is stupid.
 
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