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[quote=Anonymous]I'm not quite getting the action I had hoped from 10-year-old daughter's school and wondering what others think. I'll try to be concise. FYI, this is a public school, not in the DC area (we used to live there) so I feel OK with a little bit of detail here:

1. A week and a half ago, daughter's best friends in her classroom find out she doesn't go to church. They continue questioning her, finding out she's not Christian. They jointly (two of them) decide they can't be friends with her anymore because she's not Christian.
2. They spread it around the classroom "telephone style" trying to get other kids to diss her too, saying she's a ghost worshipper, etc..
3. They continue it out to the playground, now targeting her very best friends (in other classrooms) trying to get them to not be friends with her.

I call the teacher, alert him that I'll be contacting the principal, which I do the next day. Long story short, they start a "bully investigation" and confirm DD's account, after interviewing 18 kids who were "confronted" by these two girls. They put into action a separation policy of my daughter from the girls, but don't separate the girls which I asked for.

That doesn't work. They keep ganging up on her, approaching her as a duo to try to intimidate her. I call another meeting with the principal, the vice principal who conducted the investigation, and her teacher. I said their plan isn't working, what's the next step, that I want the duo separated as well. I believe strongly that they are emboldened by one another and feed off each other. They don't care.  All along the way they keep telling me that they can't say what other punishment the girls received since they're minors and it's against regulation. Whatever. I don't care as long as the punishment works to stop the behavior. All they do as a next step is promise that the girls will have to sign a "no contact contract," including my daughter. They don't follow through on it, FYI, but that's all they do.

It doesn't work. The bullying has continued, and yesterday they ganged up on her again. They followed her at lunch, and continued to sit next to her while she kept getting up and moving, saying they can sit wherever they want. I'm wondering where the hell the enforcement of this separation policy is, because they seem to have free rein to confront her when they're outside the classroom, which isn't supposed to happen. They are supposed to be strictly prohibited from sitting with her at lunch, during PE, etc.

I have another call in based on the incident yesterday, but wondering - am I missing something in terms of getting through to the principals OR should I just see if this dies out? I don't think it will die out, but just wondering how far would you all take this? What would any of you do in this situation? I feel like I'm coming across as the irritation when I just went them to enforce what they said they would do at the very least, and for this bullying to stop.

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