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Dad gets restraining order against fourth-grade son's classmate - latimes.com

Dad gets restraining order against fourth-grade son's classmate - latimes.com:

Dad gets restraining order against fourth-grade son's classmate

DadA Riverside County man says he has secured a restraining order against a fourth-grade boy who threatened his son with a knife.

Robert Casteel told the Riverside Press-Enterprise that earlier this month a student at Mission Bell Elementary School pulled a knife on his 10-year-old son, Christopher, and told him that he would "get you after school."

He said he pursued a restraining order to protect his son because the school has been lenient with the alleged aggressor.

"We've already got too many things happening in schools. Kids are getting shot and stabbed," Casteel told the