What the Fork?

Trace was having a little trouble with a bully at school and during lunch one day, this bully proceeded to stab him in the face with a fork. I guess he ended up going to the principals office and when she questioned him about the whole thing, Trace did two things: 1) He defended the bully saying he was "probably just having a bad day and everything was okay" and 2) He told the principal to "please call my Dad, my Mom with freak out!" When I heard about this, I did laugh first, but I felt bad that he felt he couldn't come to me. Poor kid, I really hope this bullying ends soon.