Here's a little update to my son's story from yesterday:
Today being the last day I'll be able to walk him to school since I start the new job tomorrow, I take him. Once we get to his class I see the other kid running around outside the class being all crazy, yelling and tromping through the bushes in front of the classroom and stuff. He yells something to my son and my son just looks up at me so I tell him to just ignore him.
This kid used to be friends with my son and for whatever reason decided after my son showed him what's up that he'd be friends with him again and was trying to get him to play this game they all play where they pretend to be dinosaurs from the video game they all play called Fossil Fighters. This is the type of stuff that always get's my son in trouble in class because, like me, he likes to joke around a lot. This particular kid is usually the one that starts the shenanigans and my son and two other boys end up in trouble while dude doesn't so I told my son to ignore him until recess if he wants to talk to him but that I'd prefer he just not talk to him at all because it will keep him out of trouble.
Just to be sure everything is cool I waited until the bell rang and class actually started before leaving and my son did what he's supposed to. I could see the other boy was put off by being ignored and figured this isn't over yet. As I was leaving I noticed the kid's dad standing in front of the office and he stopped me to ask if I thought the boys could be friends again to which I told him I didn't think that was a very good idea. Dude was offended and I could see it in his face so I just told him that the way I see it is that his boy is out of control and continually gets my son and two other boys in trouble and I've had enough of hearing about it all the time and that's why my son started ingoring his in the first place. He got a little heated about that so I told him he should calm down, let it go and tell his son to let it go before things escalate. I told him that even though I was sure he told his son to reconcile with mine, it wasn't going to happen because I don't want to see my son get flagged as a kid who misbehaves all the time when he learns to be respectful and use good judgement at home and at the studio.
He didn't appreciate me saying any of this at all and started to kind of put his shoulders back and puff out his chest a little like a child. I took a step back and explained to him that I could see what he was doing and that it was a bad idea because not only would it look bad but we'd both get arrested at our son's school and neother of us would win in that situation. He could see that I was not intimidated and probably figured out that I have formal training and could tell that he did not and that I had the upper hand in the situation. He quickly pointed a shaky finger at me and said, "you're and asshole and so is your son". I said, "you're right and I'm glad you've figured it out without being made to look like a fool. Now teach your son to respect adults and behave in class and we won't have to meet like this after my son continually kicks the shit out of yours."
He stormed off and once he was about 30 feet or so away I said, "have a nice day, okay."
What a fucking douchebag....