I mean, if they were my kid, it would basically be a small holiday for them. Might even try to take off work so we could go somewhere.
this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2026
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I would bake my son a cake.
I hope he’s doing ok with all the attention on him.
Agree, it sounds like he just followed a moral impulse and suddenly there's eyes all over him, which unless you're the kind of person who craves that (and he doesn't strike me as that type but that could be my misperception), can't be fun to deal with. Hopefully the positive attention outweighs the negative and he's getting some reprieve from it all as needed/wanted.
Yeah me too. It worries me as someone who was a bigger kid like him that this attention will make possible bullying so much worse. Don't know what its like these days in schools, but I expect not much better than in the past.
As a kid I was put into a local newspaper and in a small town the bullies got so annoyed about this positive attention that I was bullied for it for years after it happened and ridiculed about everything I said or stood for in the article, including the clothes I wore. I hope this kid has adults and friends in his life to mitigate stuff like this, the attention here is on an entirely different level.
Figures the hero of the story gets punished.
This is just schools for you.
I was getting bullied for my sexuality for months on end, got told they couldn’t do anything because it was “just his opinion.” Finally fought back and got punished instantly.
I’m a fully grown adult and still don’t regret it.
Yeah same. Was harassed and bullied by this one girl for months, she'd follow me around and keep on pestering me about the way I look and am.
One day, when she was following me around in the hallway and poking me, talking shit, blocking my way and all that I finally turned around and pushed her away from me. She fell on her ass and I was punished for my "violence". I touched her once. I was also made to apologize to her.
I saw this person in a bar as a adult once, she came up to me asking for forgiveness for being a shitty person back then. I told her that it isn't my job to make her feel better about it and asked her to leave me alone.
Unfortunately I don’t think it’s that surprising that the myth of “mutual abuse” is that prevalent in society when schools pretty much normalise it from youth.
Absolutely, had not thought of that. Checks out completely.
2 days suspension in exchange for being a folk hero
He probably expected a worse punishment when he did it lmao
Having to play video games by yourself for 2 days because all your friends are in school
Does that kid have a Gofundme? If chuds who say racist shit get one, he deserves one. Let's get him a full ride through college!
Two day holiday 
Two day training montage for round 2
Okay but where's his GoFundMe
Kid on the left is going to fuck so much, there’ll be racist maga types lining up outside his dorm room.
Kid on the right is going to die comparing the three fewer pixels in Tifa’s new boobage
OK