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Originally Posted by aklim
If you go kiss ass for him, where does he learn? Lets say he gets kicked out of school, is it the end of the world? No, he can do other things besides school or work his way back. When he has to worm his way in he will appreciate it all the more knowing how crap tastes in his mouth when he had to kiss ass the last time and will be less inclined to repeat such acts
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It's your black vs. white approach again.
Taken at face value, you would be correct. Let the kid learn from his mistake and if he gets kicked out of school (a high level school IIRC), then so be it. He has to suffer the consequences.
The alternative is to have Dad go over and kiss some ass and, hopefully, get him back in school. This approach has the danger that the kid will see Dad bail him out, and, that he can use it as a crutch in the future, if necessary.
But, there is a risk with the former approach that your do not advocate.
The kid, due to the crushing effect of getting booted from this high level school, will not be able to get back into this school on his own (my opinion) and the fact that he is not booted from the school may have a devastating and lasting impact on him and render him unable to pull himself up. He may not recover from it as simply as you indicate. Things are not all black and white.
No, I support Plantman here in going over there and kissing some ass and getting him back into that school where he clearly belongs. Hopefully, this incident of being placed in handcuffs and hauled off will be emotionally traumatic enough to set him straight. He doesn't need a new school and a new environment (a bad one I'm quite sure) to add to this misery.