Picture this--My first grade class, lined up at the classroom door, ready to go out for recess.  The first boy in line tripped over his own feet, fell face forward, and was unable to break his fall with his hands.  His nose took all the force of his fall.  As soon as I helped the dear boy up I sensed that his nose was broken.  There were dark red creases where his nose had flattened against the floor.  We did what we needed to do--called the nurse, applied an ice pack, and called a parent to pick him up.  Even though the father had been told what happened over the phone, by the time he arrived he had figured out that someone had probably pushed his child from behind and he was ANGRY.  He told the secretary that he wanted to know who had done this----"I'm a cage fighter and if someone's messing around with my kid, I'm going to take care of it."

So, on Monday we will have a cage set up on our playground at recess and the man is going up against the classmate who several others have accused of doing the pushing.  It is a relief to me that parents are finally getting more involved in education.