AITA for not wanting to drop charges on a 10 year old kid that beat up my 9 year old at school?
Some background my kids go to a school where over 90% of the student population are refugees/immigrants. We live in a neighborhood that is the same circumstances as my kids school.
Cut to yesterday. My 9 year old girl was out at recess. She was playing basketball with friends. This bully walked up behind her, pushed her to the ground and when she was getting up the kid kicked her in the head like it was a soccer ball. My wife went down to check my girl out of school. She’ll be ok, I hope, but she has scratches on the side of her face, a black eye and it’s swollen.
School principal said he’d handle it. Later on he called my wife and I separately and asked us to drop the charges because the student doesn’t “understand” that what they did was wrong. I told the principal that if the school isn’t going to discipline the bully I will call the police department and files charges. AITA for not wanting to drop charges on a 10 year old kid?
Edit: NO Im not racist. The principal/school admin uses the fact that they are refugees/immigrants to excuse their behavior actions all to often. Principal is retiring at the end of this year.
Update: she does have a minor concussion per ED pa. Keeping an eye on her currently.
It’s all bullshit. Reddit is an increasingly low quality magazine for ‘B grade students with a superiority complex’. AITA is just the very-obviously-made-up agony aunt section…
There are some good subreddits like educational ones and piracy, the rest I noticed are just reposted memes and fake stories. Anime_titties is good though.
For sure. Askhistorians is still good, as are some niche technology ones and regional ones. But the rest are trash compared to 10-15 years ago
Fake:
School principal asks them to drop the charges.
Parent threatens to call the cops and file charges.You can’t ask someone to drop charges they have not yet filed.
A nine-year-old’s parent doesn’t get to decide whether or not someone is charged with a crime, and if someone is charged with a crime, the kid’s parent doesn’t get to decide to “drop the charges.” If there is enough evidence, and the DA wants to bring charges, that’s that.
Fake.
A real scenario would involve the victim getting arrested.
Source: I defended myself against a bully and got a mandatory visit to a police station for a few hours.
Fuck the Police (and the school administrators) ACAB
Everything on Reddit is fake.
Utter horseshit
The fact that they’re using the term drop charges, when the kid hasn’t been arrested shows they’re making it up.
A principal is going to have enough education they wouldn’t have used that term in relation to an in school disciplinary issue because it would leave them open to trouble.
Here is another one: https://www.reddit.com/r/AITAH/comments/1hzozws
Why are people falling for this?
I don’t know if it’s true or made up, but if you have to ask Reddit for advice in a matter like this, maybe parenting isn’t for you.
Seems plausible enough to be a real situation. Though it does give some ragebait vibes
I mean, being posted to AITA is pretty much confirmation of being ragebait.
I believe that >90% of aita is not traffic at this point.
Every community with the ability to host creative writing eventually will. Especially given the complete absence of talent required to do so in 2025. That community, I recall, boomed once the lemmy exodus occurred. Some ragebait to soothe the masses of their desire to use properly programmed apps
