Should Adults Intervene Over Children's Arguments???

Last school year a 5th grade girl called my 1st grade daughter a B!tch. Several students heard this. So I along with the several student's went the principal and I made a complaint against this student and demanded she be dealt with. The next day that girl along with her mother was called in. Her mother accused my child of being a "little liar". I know because, unknowing to this mother, I was standing right there in the office! At that point, many friends "advised" me to go and defend my child. I refused. I choose to let the principal deal with it, and she did. Now I have to admit, it was hard, SOOOO hard to not go in there and knock this woman out. But luckily I kept my sense about me and didn't. When it comes to our own children emotions can and will run high. It's hard to do the right thing by either allowing those in charge to handle it or to let our children handle it. However that is no excuse for fighting parents or in this case a lynch mob. If what ever this kid did, that was so bad, it called for a brutal beating, then why wasn't the police called on this child to begin with? Adults have got to stop an think before reacting when it comes to children. I hope the adult involved, receive a proper punishment for their actions. That is just unbelievable.

Just goes to show you where the world is heading. If parents can't show good examples then how are they suppose to expect their children to be any better. You need to let the children handle their own issues; unless of course it goes way beyond the norm. Kids used to throw rocks at me after school, but did I run to my mom and tell her to handle it? NO...I dealt with it on my own.