Yup, ran into this with my boys back in the 90s. My oldest son was being mercilessly bullied when he was in kindergarten. The school did nothing. So, I did what my father did with me, told my son the next time the little brat hit him, hit him back. He did. Enter Zero Tolerance. They suspended him and his bully. Well, that wasn't going to go down well with me...I sent him to school the next morning and they didn't send him back home :)