Parents' Meeting

Bullying on federal school campuses was an unavoidable problem, and Lin Qi had encountered it in both middle school and high school.

Because he was handsome, especially when he was younger, people often mistook him for a girl. Someone had harassed him back in middle school.

Fortunately, he wasn't a complete bookworm who knew nothing but studying. After using a pencil to show someone that he wasn't to be trifled with, he successfully transferred schools.

Those incidents spread with him, however. After he moved to a new school and entered high school, things remained relatively peaceful.

But not every child had the courage to stab a sharpened pencil into someone else's shoulder, which was why the importance of parents became apparent at times like this.

A scholarly-looking father couldn't effectively intimidate the bad kids at school, but a strong and reliable father could make those little thugs think twice about the consequences before doing anything bad.

Although the Federation had laws protecting minors, those laws weren't meant to protect criminals. They existed to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of good children.

Once someone became a criminal, his age, gender, beliefs, and so on no longer mattered. After all, federal justice was impartial.

In other words, once bad children made a mistake, they would be treated as adults. Getting beaten black and blue by the furious families of their victims was perfectly normal.

Especially in the Lower District, workers wielding wrenches, carpenters carrying saws, and butchers hefting enormous cleavers were the eternal nightmares of children.

School bullying existed in the Uptown District too. The power dynamic of "I don't like you, and you can't beat me" had simply become "I don't like you, but your father isn't as powerful as mine."

When the two fathers were of roughly equal social