Disciplinary Action/Disciplinary Office/First Quarter/Mean girls/Coralee

Well, despite what your job is supposed to entail, you actually want nothing more than to make a child feel loved and comforted. Right now, that means you can't stand to see a little kid like Coralee crying and it makes you want to hug and comfort her before anything else. You can think of the punishment implications later... and maybe try to soften the experience for her when it comes to actually administering the punishment.

"Alright, let's find out what happened here. I'll take Coralee first. Victoria can wait here in the waiting area until I'm ready." You say, being careful to avoid hinting at any kind of "punishment procedures" both for the sake of not upsetting Coralee and also avoiding potential future trouble with Victoria when it's her turn.

"Alright, come on Coralee." You say as you place a hand on her back and guide her into your office. By now, her crying has died down to sniffles, but it's still the vision of a crying and sobbing child as you bring her into your office and close the door behind you.

As soon as you alone in the room, you can sense Coralee's tension has risen. "It's alright," you coax her. "How about we go sit down over here on the couch and you can tell me all about what happened?" You say as you guide her to the couch that's on one side of your office.

"Mmm..." The 9 year old 4th grader agrees and allows you to guide her.

"Here, how about you sit on my lap?" You coax as you sit down on the couch in a lazing position that takes up about half the couch. You physically pull Coralee into your lap as you are sitting, giving her little actual choice, and keep an arm around her. She looks uncertain. Of course, you are a total stranger to her. However, she does nothing to resist and just sits uneasily in your lap.

"Now, would you like to tell me what happened? Miss Curtis says you shoved Victoria. Is that really what happened?" You ask her.

"Yeah." Coralee responds.

"Why did you shove her?" You ask.

"Because..." Coralee sniffles. "Because she was saying mean things to Lisa."

"Like what?" You ask.

"Like... that she was ugly and nothing was good about her, that she would be hated by everyone in school. I... I said I was Lisa's friend, and then she said I wasn't a friend and I was just a leech and all sorts of mean stuff, and then..." Coralee trails off.

"And then that got you mad and you pushed her?" You ask, to which she nods.

"She said Lisa doesn't really like me and I'm only here because of pity." She says.

It's starting to sound more like it was the insults toward her that got her more upset. She did tell you that she got into this fight over insults directed at this Lisa girl, but it's starting to sound more like it was Coralee's own insecurities that got her angry.

The guidelines say that if someone breaks the rules on behalf of someone else, even if the supposed beneficiary didn't ask for it, the beneficiary can also be punished instead or as well as the person who broke the rules. How should you count this though?

• Don't punish Lisa. Coralee got into this fight for herself
• Punish Lisa instead of Coralee, that's what Coralee said was her reason after all
• Punish both Lisa and Coralee, might as well get more little girl pussies wherever you can get them
• Have Lisa called in here, but don't settle on punishing her just yet. Have her come in as a witness while you make your decision on what to do