"Like, she was nearly getting stabbed, and she would literally run away and go straight to the teacher,"she said.
"We do teach kids other than to resolve things, not just with their hands, but with their words and use their brain over their brawn, so to speak,"he said.
"And by the time I was good enough to ... he'd started to leave me alone."
"When you'd pick him up from school and you'd ask him how his day was, he was a little bit shut down, a bit reserved,"he said.
"It's not so they can go to school and use that physical violence against other kids,"Ms Thomas said.