A recent thread sort of asked why we can't have cogent discussions about guns.

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24. That reminds me of "bailing out" my daughter in High School

She invited her best friend from grammar school to a high school dance as a sophomore. He's a really nice Filipino kid.

Monday after the dance, one of the jocks gets in her face in the hallway and tells her real loudly; "Don't ever bring another N- to a dance here again!"

My skinny little kid brings a punch all the way from the floor and knocks football boy out cold.

Next day I'm in the Superintendent's office with the kid she hit, his parents, the disciplinary dean and I'm being told she'll have a 3 day suspension for "fighting" and have to apologize to him.

I said; "it wasn't much of a fight this racist pig never got a punch in". "What do you mean racist?"

Then my daughter told them what the kid said and his parents got real sheepish looking real fast. At that point everybody in the room knew where he heard that word in the first place.

I asked if they really wanted to suspend her for this, or if he'd rather just have the local news people crawling all over his office and school to look into the blatant racism in their athletic program?

The decided to give the football star detention and probation and let her go with a warning ... not to beat up big, strong football players any more.