think ds is in trouble

[2snowshoes]

he has just come home and told me he might be in trouble at school. a boy at school has been taking the out of dd. calling her a spaz. ds called him a brazillian tosser,
today they had a fight and now the boy is going to report him for racism.
should be interesting. I have complained over an over about various kids using dd to bully ds. calling him a spaz ect.
ds has people to vouch for the fact this boy constantly winds him up(also off to check our msn log to see if I have the spaz stuff on there)
I could just scream

is the boy from Brazil then?

IMHO calling someone a tosser is not a racist comment and commenting on their nationality isn't racist unless its something like 'frog' or 'paki' (please excuse me) ie a word that is necessarily derogatory .. which Brazillian, French or Pakistani isn't

so a British idiot is fair enough

but I would try to encourage him not to retaliate, he's not doing himself any favours

i have tried telling him not to retaliate but once someone takes the piss out of dd he looses it.

Well this will cheer you up. when i read that my first thought was - ooh the kid must have a shaved head.

i kid you not it took at least 5 seconds before i realised the kid must be brazilian....

i agree with Twigg. Brazilian isn't a racist term and if the school start getting arsey about it i can gbet you some literature from race relations which offer quite clear guidance about what is and isn't classified as a racist comment.

Its hard though, you know he shouldn't retaliate but then on the other hand you kind of half smile that the little shit bag got a slap. (im sooo gonna burn for saying that)

hope the school realise that it was provoked situation and give him a little slack

agree with twig, it's not a racist comment, and tbh it annoys me just how easily people from other races seem to think they can play the race card and get away with anything. If he's going to play that one then I'd tell your ds to tell him that his mum's going to sue him under the disability discrimination act - I'm sure there must be something in the act that says you can't make derogatory comments about someone's disability, and if there isn't then I'm sure we could make up a document that says it is .

oh and, he definitely sounds like a tosser!

thats a good idea will pass it on.
i would understand all this if they were little. but ffs the boy is 14/15 so should know better.

Isn't it amazing how the people who do the most name-calling always run to complain when someone calls them a name?

Have the staff said anything yet?

no i think he changed his mind. ds has just called him something different.