(((( Muffy )))) You're right. Your son didn't deserve that AT ALL. It infuriates me. Can you go and have a meeting with the school personnel? I'd do something to have a stop put to this. It's completely unacceptable. I'd be upset, too.... heck I AM UPSET. Makes me angry for kids to be picked on and bullied like that. And I know he shouldn't have said the bad word back to him, but I have to admit that I might have done the same thing if I were in a similar situation. Maybe not the best way to handle it, though. But, if I were you, someone at that school would be hearing me loud and clear. Your son seems like a good boy, and he doesn't deserve treatment like that, especially when he can't even defend himself. I'm so sorry this happened.