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[quote=Anonymous]I am actually a bit concerned about the focus my kid’s school puts on not “tattling”. I try to be patient with it because I know I am not a kindergarten teacher dealing with 25 kids saying “Johnny cut in line”, but I’m also not sure how well they can distinguish at that age between the things they can resolve themselves and the things they can’t. I don’t want my kid running to the teacher about stupid stuff like line cutting, but I want him to know that the teacher will listen if he is saying someone is bullying him or someone else, even if he doesn’t say the magic word “bully”.  We actually did have an incident where he went to tell the teacher about someone being mean to him, but because he’s 5 years old he didn’t explain it exactly right and the teacher gave him crap for tattling instead. It’s one isolated incident, so not a big deal, but I wonder what message it sends in the long run and how it meshes with the anti-bullying campaigns alll the schools are working on. [/quote]

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