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3. if your child does any damage to anything or any one outside of your own home then you are responsible. accident or not. provoked or not. if your child decided to retaliate or initiate is irrelevant in this case. both the children seem to concur that your son damaged the jacket. either acceptably repair the damage or purchase a new jacket. | |
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By the same logic, if you ran into me because I pulled out of a junction too late, it would be your fault. Nice one! I'll keep an eye for you around town - I need a scratch repairing in the passenger door.
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| p.s. do you really want to escalate this situation? its not easy being a 13/14 year old. why add to the tension? | |
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Ah, so now we should teach him the lesson that he can act like a d!ck and get a nice new jacket...?
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| well, seeing it from another point of view: you have a not so well off family who got a nice jacket for their son and at school somebody else damaged this. it doesn't sound unreasonable that whoever damaged it should pay for the repair. | |
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Phil, I think you missed this point:
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| The boy admitted to me on the 'phone that he had thrown the first (and actually the only) punch and that it was unprovoked. He then ran away and my lad chased him, grabbing him by the hood when he caught up with him. | |
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Based on this (assuming it is true of course, yady yady ya) the boy was the victim of his own stupidity. We can all say the OP's son should have risen above it, but come on, we are talking about 13-14 year old boys.
Somebody damaged his jacket because he threw an unprovoked punch. Isn't there a lesson in there somewhere that's lost if he gets away with a new jacket?