I am graduating this year from whitewater high school as part of the inagural class of that school . In the last 4 years of attending there every year the great principal Mr. Stillions has brought each grade into the auditorium and has gone over the student hand book going over basic rules and regulations i.e. no drugs gangs but what has always pissed me off is the rule regarding fights in school. According to my student hand book and the principal state that if you are involved in a fight you will be arrested expelled from school and will have to face a tribunal which consists of members of the board of education . Now what gets me is that in all this it doesnt matter if you started the fight or not all parties involved face the same punishment and process. It was asked my sophmore year well wait a sec what happens if you get into an arguement with someone and they throw a punch at you and start beating your head like a punching bag and you hit back in self defensive. According to him and the student resource officer it doesn't matter in school there is no such thing as self defense.

This is to me is rather ridiculous. If you are anywhere else and that cituation happened it would determined by the responding officers to be self defense no arrest or anything why should this not be true in school.if a child is attacked in school and no one is arround to respond or no one can respond quick enough and the attacker beats the childs head in causing sever brain damadge the school and the attacker can be heald liable.

Does anyone think this is right . Discuss