Lil Lookout's version of justice

[Clodfobble]

Mr. Clod and I disagreed vehemently on your scenario (I on your side, he on your sister's,) and by the end of dinner we had come up with the following common ground:

LL can't be told he should have trusted the teacher to take care of the situation, because obviously she wasn't handling it. He will write off that suggestion as stupid. However, he can be shown other ways of escalating the situation--i.e., go to the next higher authority. If the teacher just says, "now now, play nice" and isn't protecting the kids in her class, then LL can tell the principal what's going on, or tell you and have you contact the principal, or the bully's parents. It will require slightly more patience on his part, since he'll have to get to the end of the day, but is ultimately probably a more effective solution, both in making the bully behave long-term as well as informing the teacher that it's not acceptable to simply "separate" a bully from his victim and consider the situation handled.