situation with 6 y.o. (school, accident, etc)

[blindgirl]

Hi,

Before I do something wrong I thought I would ask for some advice here.

Yesterday my 6 y.o. played during break outside classroom (so were other children). One girl and him were running too fast in too confined place and they ran into each other at hight speed. She hit her face into the fall. She had split, lip, gum and fair amount of blood. I saw her today she has light bruising and she is a bit swollen.

When I came to pick up my son yesterday, teachers never mentioned that to me. My son talked about accident only in the evening. He was quite apologetic, sad but he insisted that they were both running and it was an accident. My opinion that if it was very serious out teacher would definitely come outside to talk to me.

This morning at playground we are discovering that we are talk of the whole school and apparently it is "his fault and did it on purpose". poor poor gilr and what a horrible boy he is! I have a very active boisterous boy. He has never caused injury to other children in the past but if there is a fight he will fight to defend himself. I spoke to girl's parents as well and they insist that it was absolutely an accident and they do not think he did it on purpose. Girls says it was not his fault.

Now I am quite furious how it is escalating in wrong way. I do not want him to get a certain reputation. But I have seen today how certain parents were giving that look and talking together. I cannot put up a sign on the school that it was not his fault but what can I do? I am worried how it is going to affect him socially. Certain parents in our class like talking (it happened int he past about other kids) and they will project their views on their children who in their turn will not be friends with my kid.

Am I overreacting? We are third year in school and I have never been in situation like this before. Thank you very much for listening and i hope someone wil be able to share their views and opinions and give some advice.

We gave some flowers to a girl today and he drew her a picture. we wished her to get well soon.

Take NO notice. Next week they'll be talking about some other poor child. This happened in my DC school when a Mum with a new baby accidentally made a bad parking descision...nobody died and she had a baby who was a few days old so in my opinion people should have been ncer...but others talked about her like she was terrible.

It's all blown over now...just ignore. Tell others what happened but in a detached way.

I have this kind of thing with my 6 year old ruffian! The other parents will get their come uppance when their children are lying in the gutter as heroin addicts and ours are lovely kind boys who have learnt from their mistakes. Smile and carry on and ignore the lemon suckers.....

oh thank you! I am quite shaken by reaction of other parents and I do not want him to be labelled as bad boy. I will talk to teachers next week again just to clarify. There are couple of parents who have these proper nice behaving kids, who never swear, or fight "my child will never do that!" they say. we will see... I never say my child will never do that.

on the other had, when last year his friend hit him in the face and my son's tee was covered in blood I never mentioned that anyone. And now this boy's dad is first one blame my son.