One more reason not to wear pink - especially if you're a six-year-old boy

Someone send this shirt to this kid, STAT!

Swedish boy, 6, stabbed for 'wearing pink'

The newspaper names the boy as Oskar and reports how his liking for pink clothing, ballet and nail polish left him exposed to regular bullying from other boys in his playgroup.
The newspaper named the boy? I didn’t know newspapers had that right, how cool is that? And how awful that he made it to six without a name. What did his parents call him?

Well, he likes pink clothing, ballet and nail polish – he’s doomed from the start. We all know kids are vicious. How can anyone honestly know a six-year-old boy who is into that stuff and not expect the bullies to seek him out? It’s stupidity on the part of the parents if they didn’t see this coming – you don’t need to be psychic. Not saying it’s right, but it was in the cards.

The newspaper reported that he had also complained to his parents that he had been subjected to taunts that he was "gay" and "a girl". He had furthermore complained of being excluded from the group, and having been dragged from a climbing-frame.
The name-calling is common. The playgroup exclusion is fairly common too. There’s always an outsider whom no one understands and they are ridiculed. It’s part of being a kid. I know, I was that outsider for a long time. I hated it. It was only later in life that I learned to embrace it. Come on kid, that which doesn’t kills us makes us stronger. Given the fact they are dragging you around off a “climbing-frame” (WTF is that? A Jungle Gym?), you need all the strength you can get.

Grammar Nazi note: There’s that excessive “had” again – multiple times in the same sentence, no less. AGHHHHHHHHH. I’m not even going to go about rewriting it. Just, AGHHHHHHHHH.

The incident last week in which the 6-year-old sustained a noticeable injury to his neck after having been stabbed with a blunt knife was the last straw for the parents, who have now moved their son and reported the matter to the Schools Inspectorate (Skolinspektionen).
A noticeable injury – what constitutes a noticeable injury? I mean, a paper cut can be a noticeable injury if you look hard enough. I really think more description is necessary here.

Now, who stabbed the kid? Was it a teacher? (It’s sort of sad I have to ask that question.) Was it a kid who was calling him names? Or did he just fall onto a knife and say he was stabbed as a plea for attention? (Hey, stranger things have happened.)

I should hope they took their son out of that school. Of course, had they done something sooner, perhaps it might not have gotten to this point. This poor kid will be wearing Slushies a la Kurt Hummel before too long. (Side note, Kurt’s my favorite, so, yeah, not a bad thing.)

The parents were reportedly further angered by the fact that they heard of the incident from their son and not from the staff at the preschool, who described the clash as a "small incident".
Okay, so it definitely was another kid. Thanks for that clarification.

WTF is a six-year-old at a PRESCHOOL anyway????? Alright, I admit, there’s probably a language/cultural barrier here that I’m being too short-sighted to look over, but come on, you know the thought crossed your mind too.

"I don't want to have my child at a school which considers a stab with a knife to be a 'small incident'," the boy's mother told Jönköpings-Posten.
I agree with the kid’s mother here. It’s not a small incident. Nothing that involves physical injury to a child by another child is a small incident.

I hope the parents stabbed the headmaster of the school and/or a teacher on their way out, just to prove a point. And no, they can’t sue because it’s just a “small incident.”