This 12-year-old boy turned up at school without having had breakfastand then got himself a lunchtime detention. The whole class had gone onstrike over using the computers.
The child was the first to sit down and behave yet he was one of onlyfive to be kept in and felt hard done by. By this time he was veryhungry and tried to leave, but was told to sit down by the teacher. Inhis frustration, he kicked the teacher in the shins. When he was finallyallowed to leave, the canteen had run out of food.
He was angry so sought out the teacher who'd kept him in and punchedhim. He was taken to see the school's behaviour manager and kept inisolation while the school called his mother. She was asked to attend ameeting at the school later that day.
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