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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry your daughter is having a hard time. Honestly, "mean girls" are everywhere. We have doNe public and private and there hasn't been a difference. In public, the school deals with it by having the school counseLor have a meeting with the kids. Then the mean girls get mad bc they got "in trouble." Also, the school counselors typically don't call the parents of kids who are bullying. Therefore, parents have no idea how their kids are really behaving. We are at a private with few girls in the grade. All it takes is one mean girl to ruin another girl's experience. But the reality is that kids have to learn how to deal with all kinds of people in order to survive in life. It's just a bit painful when you are paying tuition for them to get this life lesson.[/quote]

In Catholic schools it is different because its the same kids every year, year to year, for 8 years. There are very few students who enter or leave. This is not true for public school.  I feel really bad for your kid if you believe that in such a small, insular environment that your child will be able to learn to deal with it. How do you expect that to happen? They are literally stuck with no chance of branching out or walking away. Worse, there is no role model for them of how to "deal with it". They don't see any examples of anyone dealing with it because in such a small group only one or two kids become the target of meanness.  [/quote]

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