I need to brag on my DS for a bit. I haven't talked about it much in this thread, since I haven't been in here that long and most everything happened before I came in here, but DS was bullied terribly at his old school to the point that we had to pull him out and were willing to homeschool him until we found a suitible option because he was not safe at his old school. He was diagnosed with Autism in October, 2 days before the carp hit the fan so to speak and we stopped sending him to school immediately, which could have gotten us all sorts of fines or jail time. Thank goodness the attendance officer granted us an urgent status based on his case so that we could look for another school to place him in where he would be safe and his new school stepped up and sped him through the acceptance process. He was 9. He turned 10 in December, but in a lot of ways he's more like a 7 year old. So anyway, he quit soccer and joined a chess club a year ago....he has been playing chess since he was 4, but only with daddy or opa, and soccer wasn't going well, so he decided to join the chess club so he would get to play more often and with other kids. He really fit in there so much better. So tonight at chess, he saw 2 boys picking on a little girl, shoving her, etc...and my baby boy who was bullied so badly jumped in between them and tried to get them to stop and ended up getting hit. Despite everything he's been through, he still had the courage to stand up for someone else. He came home in tears and refused to talk about it (everything we got, we heard from the chess instructor, who, knowing the history from his old school, thought we should know what happened), so he's more than a little traumatized and worried that he'll have to quit chess because he is afraid he's going to get bullied there now, too. But I don't think that will happen....the instructor saw the fight, broke it up, and had them all talk it out and DS wasn't the target, he just got caught up in it because he tried to stop it. I wish he hadn't had to go through that, but proud that he stood up for what was right.