Wow, sounds like maybe she should get him enrolled into a different school. He said they were sitting at their desks when the incident started to happen, so where the hell were all the teachers?!

When I was 16 I was confronted by a dipshit with a knife at school. He was flashing it around showing it off, and eventually took it a step further. He threatened me with it so I got seriously pissed. I basically knew he wouldn't use it so I asked if a few friends if they would back me up with a good story when I went to the principles office. They said no problem, so it was on. I ran into the guy out in the hall and commenced to bashing his face in. Then we went to the office and the principle turned on a tape recorder and had us all tell what happened, including the 4 friends I had. So the other kid got suspended, and so did I. The difference is, I was allowed to take all my work home, so basically it was like a three day vacation.

I know that's a different situation, but I think it could have ended largely the same, with both of us getting in trouble. The staff at our school knew the other kid was a troublemaker, so after all the correlating stories he was fucked, and instead of punishing me they pretty much did the opposite. That poor kid stood up for another kid and gets punished for his efforts. While there was some danger involved, who knows what would have happened if he didn't intervene? By jumping into the situation it has now been brought to everyone's attention and maybe he saved that other kid from future harrassment, at least from that paticular bully.