8-year-old with 38 mask-related suspensions gets roaring applause after confronting school board

That she does!

Ge, I never got even one! Even after taking down bullies in three separate fights.

SPC Michael Terrell - When we'd fight in school, we'd be paddled, THEN sent to the gym where the gym teacher gave us a choice of boxing gloves or wrestling mats. Either way, you'd fight until you were both ready to drop ... THEN shake hands. Made a few good friends doing that.

SSG Bill McCoy - I had a reputation for not wanting to fight. The bullies thought that I was a coward, until they found out about my bad temper. I'll bet every one of them remember the day that I took them down, and walked away. I was taunted all through school because I couldn't run, but they didn't expect good upper body strength. and that was their second mistake. At 20, I picked up a Pontiac 389 short block with my bare hands. I knocked the school's biggest bully over 20 feet across the gym floor one day. The gym teacher walked around with an 18 inch paddle that he loved to use, but he and the reset of the class stood there staring as I told the idiot, "Just be glad that you didn't make me mad."
I was only paddled once. A loudmouth bragged that this was the seventh high school for him, in two years because he was so bad ass. He tried to hit me with a wood mallet in shop class. I got it away from him and hit his wrist with it, then he tried to punch me. I blocked it, the my class ring cut a strip of skin and eyebrow out of the jerk's face. I took the tree swats like a man. I walked back into the wood shop and pulled out a metal folding chair and sat as if nothing had happened. He was crying after his three swats.

My Drill Sargent kept trying to goad me into a fight, to get me into the boxing ring, until he saw me pick up a heavy coil of rope that was used for tug of war, toss it up and over my head, onto a flatbed truck. I was supposed to wait for him to find more 'volunteers'. It was near the end of Basic, and the one day that family could visit. I gave him a nasty grin as I dusted off my hands and walked away. He never looked me in the eyes again.

Never let your mouth write a check that you can't physically cash. :)