Wow! A kid hit me at school yesterday!

I cannot help but share an experience I had yesterday! I substituted in Christian's class yesterday, which was a neat! He is such a mature boy! Anyway, I went out to recess to help organize some soccer teams eventhough I didn't really have yard duty. I organized the teams and the kids started playing. Before I could walk back to the classroom, two sweet little girls stopped me and said that a boy had been really rude to them and even hit one of them in the arm. Well, I knew these girls (they aren't tattle tales) and figured I better follow-up and talk to the boy. They pointed him out and I called him over to talk to him. I said, "What's your name?" (I didn't know this kid) and he rudely said, "What's your name?" I told him my name and then he mocked me and copied everything I said. My intention was to get this kid to say sorry and feel responsible for hurting these girls. Well, he continued to mock me and so I told him that I would be walking him to the office to see the principal. Well, at that point, after mocking me, he ran! Then began my out of body experience! I was stubborn and was not going to let him get away with this... so I chased him! When I caught up with him (adrenaline is amazing, I was even wearing sandals), I grabbed his left arm and looked down at him to talk to him and I saw his right arm winding up with a fist at the end of it. He swung and hit me in the head, luckily I moved my head to the side a bit or he would have gotten me right in the nose. It all happened very fast but I can see it in slow motion now! I went into shock! I didn't really have bad pain until later that afternoon so I went back to the classroom and finished out my day of teaching. I couldn't really think very well, so I had some of my responsible kids do most of the teaching. When he got home from work, Aaron drove me up to see my brother-in-law, Chiropractor. He said I may have suffered a minor concussion and had knocked out two vertebra in my neck. An experience that I'll never forget. I hope that this boy somehow learns that there is a better way. I will be praying for him!