a while just to see what is happening. Normally schools are very open with parents wanting to participate in their childs education (recess is part of their education). You may be surprised that your perfect little angel is not so perfect at interacting with his peers but not all is lost they will learn. Just remember the best lessons come from our own mistakes. So you are asserting that someone stabbed your child with a pencil and it was observed by non-involved parties (i.e. NOT just the child) and concluded that it was a deliberate act, and the ONLY thing that happened to the stabber was a time-out? Are you positive beyond a shadow of a doubt that the parents of that child were not contacted? That that child didn't have to talk to a school counselor? Were you told by the people in power that NO OTHER ACTION besides a "time out" would be or was taken in response to one child stabbing another with a pencil? And when you say "stab"-- do you mean breaking the skin? Did it require medical attention? Was your child seen by the school nurse? The point is-- there is a lot of one-sided rhetoric in these posts and I think if the facts being presented are true you will get a lot of support. It's awfully hard to determine whether something is true or not, though, when you only have one side of the story (in our case, YOUR side) and you