Not to mention my principal and coach my whole life. I feel the same way about this kind of BS. He had a good method of dealing with fights in school though. Because of school regulations, handbooks, school board, and bat **** crazy parents you have to punish both kids. It is what it is, but most of the time if he knew the kid who was defending himself was a good kid then he barely got anything i.e. (after school suspension or one day of ISS) Hell he would have beat my *** had I not fought back, he had an utter disdain for bullies and there were a couple of times when he let fights go a little longer because the a**hole was taking the beat down.
Mom used to tell me stories before I was born about when he was the Principal at Bay Springs high school. One time he paid my brother 20.00 after he got sent to the office for kicking a bullies ***. If they started a fight he stopped it and took them around the gym and they put on boxing gloves and went at it til they couldn't stand anymore. Can't do that these days but it sure would cut out some of this BS.
Power to the fat kid.