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[quote=Anonymous]If there are sustained aggressive behaviors against your son making him feel uncomfortable or threatened in such a way that it interferes with his abilities to be successful at school, well then it is bullying and the administatIon must be notified.  However, if it was a one time or even a seldom occurring event then it was probably a "yo' mama" joke which although tasteless may not rise to the level of chronic bullying. The teacher's response my have been an attempt to defuse the situation with simple logic thereby assuring you son that the titanic remark was ridiculous, while avoiding the class disruption that would have been created had he investigated the mean joke at that moment during is current lesson.

However, if you feel this real and sustained bullying, you  need to walk in to the school's main office and insist on having a conversation with the principal. Teachers can only control what is happening in their classrooms and even at that theirs powers are limited. True sustained bullying occurs systemically in the classrooms, hallways, lunch rooms, gyms, locker rooms, etc. etc.  Ultimately, the credit for ending bullying or the blame for allowing bullying to thrive in any school falls on the principal.

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