Was this enough of a consequence for hitting a female classmate and chipping her tooth?

To my way of thinking, this punishment is not sufficient. To strike someone with a trumpet case in anger is very serious! I'm also very surprised that he was not suspended.

Another thing tho, is that although a stronger punishment will perhaps make him realize to a greater degree that his actions have consequences, it doesn't address the cause or remedy for why he did this in the first instance. What about some serious discussion/counseling regarding how and why he expresses his anger and ways to modify.

These things happen. The exciting element of being that age was seeing actions and reactions, learning boundaries and making mistakes.

The fact that he hit a GIRL with the case is irrelevant. An action was made against him, and he retaliated. Fair enough. It's not like he cornered a girl much weaker than him and poked her with a stick 0.o

He chipped her tooth, and seeing as that she has to live with that (if it's an adult tooth, she'll never forget it...and they'll both learn from it. For what happened, the punishment is fine. Let it go, afterwards - don't dwell on that "slowly gaining back trust" issue that one uses for kids that lie or steal...

He shouldn't have done it, sure, but now he knows that demonstrating his anger in such a way proves nothing.

I am very suprised the boy wasn't suspended from school.. hitting is a terrible thing.. and all of my schools I have been to have a 0 tolerance policy against hitting.. let alone picking up a trumpet case and hitting someone in the face with it... I definitely would have personally, given him a more harsh punishment in both the school and home settings. However, I do feel the female should be punished as well.. not as harshly but definitely punished... sounds more like the punish he received would have been more for her, and his should have been more severe. That's just my opinion however.

I really don't understand what's wrong with guys hitting girls. I think it's so stupid that if a girl hits a guy people are like oh she has a right to defend herself and suddenly when a guy hits a girl it's like oh he's such a jerk. I think that girl deserved to get hit she pulled the chair out from under him for Pete's sake! But I think she shouldn't have been hit so hard that she breaks a tooth. I also think she should be punished too. She could've just told him it was her seat and asked him to move.

I would say it was a bit harsh. His punishment was already set with the school. Yes, he shouldn't have done that, but the girl was mean too. I bet she didn't get punished either. If he had suffered a result from an injury would it have been a different outcome? Kids will be kids and it was his gut reaction and not premeditated.

Honestly I think he needs to be suspended from school for awhile

and should not be allowed to be in band for the rest of the year.

13 year old step son might be suffering from mental health problems like depression? Grounding or punishing him would make it worse!

Was the girl punished as well? She was the one that started this.

I agree with both. No matter what she did to him, he still should never do anything to a female classmate or a male classmate for that matter.