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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I read the text message strings within the first 40 pages and it’s sad..,the kids wer a little harsh but DB clearly had no social kills and no idea how to respond.  A few kids even chimed in to reassure them they weren’t mad at him,  that it was all love, etc.  it didn’t seem that bad.

I’m heartbroken for the victim’s sister who found him.  She was already having a horrible year.  From the surface of the complaint, though, I don’t get why the plaintiffs are including her text messages to her mom.  She does seem very socially awkward and it’s sad that other kids weren’t friendly to her, but that is different than bullying her.

For a 40k school, you’d think they’d have better mental health and socialization supports in place…at least social skills groups and lunch bunches.

To anyone experiencing anything like this with your child: please do not rely on email.  Pick up the phone.  Get on someone’s calendar.  This is not victim blaming; just an advocacy tip.  I’m a school employee and we are deluged with emails.  I’m like an emergency room trailer nurse with email.  The big, big ones I just can’t tackle right now…then they get buried.  It’s not an excuse; just an explanation.  If you’re teaching or with students all day, you’re not in front of your inbox all day.  In the tiny slivers of time that you have to catch up, that’s a LOT to dump on people.  [/quote]

*triage nurse

To be clear, I think they have a strong case against school officials for not informing them when they’re son reported bullying.  It’s clear that he didn’t want his mother involved but the desire of a minor to self-advocate does not deimonish the legal requirement to inform a parent.

I think it’s possible that the school sis going to try to claim that the behavior reported did but constitute bullying.  The plaintiffs appear to be describing every negative social interaction as “bullying”.  Not wanting to hang out with your next door neighbor transfer kid is not bullying.  Piecing together the backstory of that text chain about basketball, I seem to understand that at some point the victim did join the JV team, but then had a bad game when the team lost to Parker.  At then next time they played Parker, the victim sat with his old teammates, and someone posted under the victim’s account some trash talking of the basketball program.  So his team started accusing him of “throwing” their last game.  If he sat with their opponents when he’s supposed to be in the team, that’s low,  [/quote]

…and teammates responding angrily to the provocation is not “bullying” either, in and of itself.  [/quote]

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