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I plan on rewriting the opening and starting at chapter three. I asked this question on another site, and a poster pointed out that it may be hard to say which is the inciting incident. The bullying caused detention, which caused the mugging, which caused the MC to be grounded, which caused the MC to chase a sock gnome into his dryer.
IA that 6000 words of backstory seems like a lot, BUT these events don't really read like backstory to me. They seem to explain why the MC is chasing a sock gnome into his dryer. You could, potentially, cut those scenes and simply explain what led up to this point in a couple of paragraphs, but you'll need to make sure to do that well, and not in a boring way (well, obviously ).
The best advice I've heard about when to have an inciting incident is this: put in the inciting incident as soon as you've established enough that the reader will care about the inciting incident. ("Enough" typically relates to character and stakes - not necessarily character-building, but who is this character, what do they want, and why do we care.)