Welcome to R-Slash, today I have to up where a father accidentally lets his kid knock out the

school bully. Our next red-opposis from Odin's Beall. My son was born with a condition called

Pectus X-Covatum, and no offense to anyone with a condition, but it kind of sounds like a hairy

potter spell. In layman's terms, his chest is sunken in. His condition was so bad that he only had

two and a half inches between his sternum and his spine, and his heart and lungs were bruised because

of it. In December, he had surgery to correct it and they put two nickel bars in his chest to give

it space and train his bones to go correctly. About three weeks after his surgery, a kid punched him

and dislodged the top bar, and he had to have another surgery to put the bar back in place.

The kid has been through a lot. Well, the doctor cleared him for most activity last week.

Just no skateboarding or bike riding, but he could now lift his backpack and go hang out with

friends and play pickup non-contact sports. Unbeknownst to me, a kid in his class had been bullying him

all semester, and because my son was afraid of getting hit again, he just took it. Well,

the evening he was cleared, he came to me and said, Dad, I'm cleared now. A kid has been bullying

me and hitting me for months. Can I kick his butt? Well, my son isn't really a fighter. He

fought with his brothers, but never anyone else. And he's always gotten his butt kicked. So,

I just figured he was just talking. But this is the first time I'd heard about the bullying,

and I was concerned. I could tell he was distressed about the situation. So, I told him to knock

that little brat out. He just nodded and went to his room. Now, his older brother is a tough SOB.

He had a traumatic brain injury two years ago, and he missed a year of school, so he's in the same

grade and coincidentally takes the same class. I talked to him about it and told him to handle it,

but don't get in trouble. He told me that the kid walks in every day and punches my son in the

head. I asked him why he allowed that to happen, and he said he wanted his brother to get tough,

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