Is tormenting "gingers" a thing at every private school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone knows that gingers have no soul.

This. Day walkers.

[Anonymous]

I was bullied for being a ginger but if it wasn't that it would have been some other thing.

Haven't heard my kids say they're bullied for being gingers though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have strawberry haired DS and DD and a beautiful red-haired colleague was shared she was teased in middle and high school. She used teased, said it was just normal private kid stuff. I'd honestly characterize it as relentless bullying. Is this common at every private? She made it seem so. She attended all girls Catholic schools.

Wouldn't she be in a better position than you are to know whether it was "relentless bullying"?

[Anonymous]

I went to NCS and never even heard of the "ginger" terminology until the South Park episode.

[Anonymous]

My two nephews are gingers and both are wildly popular with boys and girls!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have strawberry haired DS and DD and a beautiful red-haired colleague was shared she was teased in middle and high school. She used teased, said it was just normal private kid stuff. I'd honestly characterize it as relentless bullying. Is this common at every private? She made it seem so. She attended all girls Catholic schools.

Actually, no one wants to say it but I will ... we actually have to sign a pact when we enroll our children in private school that the children will 'relentlessly bully' 'gingers'. EVERY kid has to sign (except the 'gingers', of course!). It is in EVERY private school EVERYWHERE!!!

Really? Is this the best you can come up with? If you don't want your child in private school then don't send him or her.

In the meantime, if you are consistently using such a high level of hyperbole in front of your children then be prepared for the fact that they are going to have problems other than your interesting concern about their hair color.

[Anonymous]

Ask Tim Minchin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVN_0qvuhhw

[Anonymous]

It's popular everywhere. There is prejudice everywhere, just ask Tim Minchin
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7dQt2SAnTQc

[Anonymous]

If this were a thing, which it isnt, why would it be limited to private school?

[Anonymous]

Attended private school here in the 80's and 90's and no, this wasn't really a thing.

[Anonymous]

As an AA I find this entire thread puzzling...teasing someone because of the color of their hair of all things? White people will go to any lengths to make someone who is different feel inferior I see. I've always thought people with red hair were different and exotic in a good way. Go figure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As an AA I find this entire thread puzzling...teasing someone because of the color of their hair of all things? White people will go to any lengths to make someone who is different feel inferior I see. I've always thought people with red hair were different and exotic in a good way. Go figure.

Yeah. This whole chain is odd.

[Anonymous]

Not at our school. I have never even heard that this was a thing.

[Anonymous]

I've never once in my life had anyone say anything mean to me about my red hair, and the same is true for my two red-haired children as far as I'm aware. I worry more about the kids getting a special snowflake complex about it than getting bullied - they're aware that it's something unusual that gets them lots of compliments. We've traveled in the UK a few times without any problems, but maybe it's different if you go to school there. I can't imagine there's a private/public school distinction though - I went to public school and my kids go to private.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As an AA I find this entire thread puzzling...teasing someone because of the color of their hair of all things? White people will go to any lengths to make someone who is different feel inferior I see. I've always thought people with red hair were different and exotic in a good way. Go figure.

Yeah. This whole chain is odd.

What's most odd about this thread is that it's gone on for 3 pages when the answers are consistently "no, it's not a thing."

This thread is confirming that something non-existent us non-existent. Seinfeld would live it.