Reddit Is Backing Up This Dad Who Plans to Sue His Child’s Bully After They Crossed a Major Line

Get ready to be mad over this viral AITA post on the subreddit that has everyone fuming for the OP.

Let’s set the scene: the post came from a 30-year-old dad who shares his 11-year-old adopted daughter with his husband, a 33-year-old man. Sadly, like many kids, their daughter has a school bully, but this bully took it way too far.

Thus, this concerned parent asked the subreddit: “AITA for threatening to sue both the school and the family of my daughter’s bully?”

So this “severe” bullying started with the kids attacking her for being adopted.

He wrote, “It started off with just name-calling but has gotten worse over the past few weeks. Context: She’s adopted, which is something we’ve always been open about and celebrated as part of her story. Recently, some kids found out about her adoption and started saying horrible things – telling her stuff like her birth mother didn’t want her. They tell her that she’s unwanted tell her she a reject. (Which is not the case her mother loved her very much to the point she literally gave her life so she could be here).”

If that wasn’t bad enough, the bullies took it up a step further into the physical. By that, we mean their daughter came home with some of her hair chopped off. Yes, we know we’re screaming at the screen, too, in pure anger.

“A few days ago, she came home in tears with her hair butchered they’d cut off 2 inch of her ponytail well in class all while taunting her names and laughing at her reaction. They will follow her through the halls to make fun of her on a regular basis now,” he added.

After this horrific incident, both of them reached out to the school multiple times. “I emailed, called, even showed up in person to speak with teachers and the principal, but all I got were empty promises that they’d ‘look into it.’”

To the surprise of no one, the school kept blowing them off, despite the serious harm it was causing their daughter. In fact, their daughter’s mental health hit a low, with the dad revealing, “She’s anxious, struggling to sleep, and now begs us not to send her to school.”

After hearing the same BS over and over again, this outraged dad put his food down and reached out to a lawyer “to explore legal action against both the school and the bully’s family.” We love a parent who takes action and fights for their kid!

And again, not surprisingly, once the bully’s family and school heard the word “lawyer,” they panicked, but again, to very lackluster results.

“Only when the school and her parents learned we were considering a legal action did they start to act. Suddenly, the school calls me to say they’re moving the bully out of my daughter’s class and claim they ‘had a talk’ with her. The girl’s parents reached out too, saying they’d ‘talk to their daughter’ and promised it would stop,” he added.

Now, here’s where the AITA dilemma comes in. The parents don’t believe either the school or the bully’s family, and believes that they’re just telling them what they want to hear so that they’ll back off. 

He added, “I worry that once the dust settles, things will go right back to how they were, and my daughter will still be dealing with this. My family thinks I should give the school and parents a chance now that they’re finally taking action, but I feel like it’s all for show.”

So the real question is, “AITA for moving forward with legal action even though the school and the bully’s parents now claim they’re handling it?” 

As you can imagine, Reddit quickly defended this dad, immediately dubbing him “NTA” and saying that this goes beyond bullying, it can be classified as assault.

Many Reddit users, from people who were bullied in their past to actual teachers, were all cheering on the dad for being so pro-active and encouraged him to go through with the lawsuit.

“Yeah sorry. ‘Bullying’ with name calling is one thing. Physical abuse to a child by cutting her hair DURING CLASS is completely different,” one Reddit user wrote.

Another Reddit user added, “Teacher here. DO. NOT. BACK. DOWN. I can promise you that this family is a bunch of bullies (at their jobs, with people in general) and they’ve been getting away with it forever. This is a lesson their child MUST learn now.”

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