School Calls Mother After Daughter Hits A Student, But Mother’s Response Leaves Them Speechless

A mother and ER nurse received a surprising call from her daughter’s school telling her that her daughter had hit another student. The mother rushed to the school and was ready to punish her daughter, but when she heard the other side of the story, everything changed.

According to InspireMore, the mother shared her story online to serve as a reminder to parents that you have to do everything you can to defend your children if they are treated without respect.

The mother’s story reads:

I’m an ER Nurse. We’re not allowed to keep our phones on us, they’re to be kept in our lockers. A call comes into hospital reception on a private line for me.

Phone: “This is (teacher) from (school). There’s been an incident involving your daughter. We need you to come in.”

Me: “Is she ill or injured? Can it wait until my shift is over in two hours?”

Phone: “Your daughter has struck another pupil. We’ve been trying to call you for 45 minutes. It really is very serious.”

I go to the school and am ushered into the principals office. I see my daughter, a male teacher, a female counselor, the principal, a boy with blood around his nose and a red face, and his parents.

Principal: “How kind of you to FINALLY join us!”

Me: “Yeah, things get busy in the ER. I’ve spent the last hour administering over 40 stitches to a seven-year-old who was beaten by his mother with a metal ladle and then I had to deal with the police regarding the matter. Sorry for the inconvenience.”

After watching him try to not act embarrassed, he tells me what has happened. The boy had twanged my daughter’s bra and she had punched him in the face twice. I got the impression they were more angry with my daughter than the boy.

Me: “Oh. And you want to know if I’m going to press charges against him for sexually assaulting my daughter and against the school for allowing him to do it?”

They all get jittery when I mention sexual assault and start speaking at once.

Teacher: “I don’t think it was that serious.”

Counselor: “Let’s not over-react.”

Principal: “I think you’re missing the point.”

The boy’s mother then starts crying. I turn to my daughter to find out what happened. 

Daughter: “He kept pinging my bra. I asked him to stop but he didn’t, so I told my teacher. He told me to ignore it. The boy did it again and undid my bra so I hit him. Then he stopped.”

I turn to the teacher.

Me: “You let him do this? Why didn’t you stop him? Come over hear and let me touch the front of your trousers.”

Teacher: “What? No!”

Me: “Does that seem inappropriate to you? Why don’t you go and pull on the counselor’s bra right now. See how fun it is for her. Or on that boy’s mom’s bra. Or mine. You think just because they’re kids it’s fun?”

Principal: “With all due respect, your daughter still beat another child.”

Me: “No. She defended herself against a sexual attack from another pupil. Look at them. He’s a foot taller than her and twice as heavy. How many times should she have let him touch her? If the person who was supposed to help and protect her in a classroom couldn’t be bothered what should she have done? He pulled her bra so hard it came undone.”

The boy’s mom is still crying and his dad looks both angry and embarrassed. The teacher won’t make eye contact with me.

I was so angry I gathered my daughter’s things and left. I reported it to the superintendent, and was assured it was strongly dealt with. 

The story shows that parents must stand up for their children if they experience disrespect, and also that it is never okay to treat others with disrespect.

Readers shared their thoughts on The Shred’s Facebook page.

“Great mother!” One reader commented. “And her daughter had every right to do what she did! Kid’s lucky she didn’t break his nose! How dare the principal, the teacher and the counselor not defending her! And his parents should have also reprimanded him right then and there and apologized to the girl and her mother! And should have made the son apologize and then punish him!”

“Kudos to this mom for standing up for her daughter and putting those jerks in their place,” another reader wrote. “I went through something very similar with my daughter in middle school.”

Sources: InspireMore, The Shred/Facebook / Photo Credit: Pexels