Flipping over girls

Colter has managed to convince Gary that he is to blame for Colter flipping a girl (who was wearing a cast, by the way!) at "walk and talk" yesterday. It turns out that when Colter got a yellow last week for running at "walk and talk," he was running away from this girl. So, Gary told him not to run. Yesterday, instead of running (which he knew would get him in trouble), Colter flipped her body onto the ground. Definitively proving that kids understand school culture, Colter was right. He didn't get a yellow! His teacher still gave him a green, and didn't send home his agenda because she didn't finish writing a note to us about the incident (a lot of good it'll do us tonight). At least one of us is now the wiser. Gary's advice to Colter this morning about what to do when someone's bothering him: Find an adult. Sometimes I think Colter is 45 and Gary is 7.