[BP-Revo]

It's complete BS that the bigger kid got suspended. Unfortunately, my high school had the same policy.

At my school, if some kid randomly walked up to you cause he was having a bad day and just started pummeling you, and you sat there and took it, and had 100 witnesses to back you up, they would still suspend BOTH students. So you could literally sit there and just get the sh!t beat out of you and still get suspended anyway.

When I learned of this rule I told myself the second the other guy threw the first punch I would beat him into the ground. The reason? I'm gonna get suspended anyway. Might as well show the other kid it was a mistake to start anything with me and it would also ward off others from trying to start stuff after they saw me pummel the dude without remorse. Fortunately, I never had to do any of this and go through with nothing but about 100 "tardys" for being late.

I think this rule is COMPLETELY stupid as it almost promotes more violence. If they would do what is right by NOT punishing the victim, it would promote the victim to not fight back and just to report what happened. However, by punishing the victim anyway, you are basically giving him a free card to beat the hell out of the other kid since he's going to get punished anyway.