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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Don't accept lunch bunch or meetings with the guidance counselor and the kids because it means they are saying your child is at fault. He is immature or lacks social skills or whatever.
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I'm sorry PP, but in the third week of school for a child who has never been in an elementary school setting before, I don't think your advice is appropriate. The OP knows that her child is miserable; she knows what he has told her in terms of what has happened to him physically. But she has no other context. Seeing the school counselor and participating in social skills/"lunch bunch" meeting may be a big part of helping this child adjust to his new setting.[/quote]

PP here.  You missed my point or maybe I wasn't clear.  Lunch bunch and school counselor services are great.  It's just that in the context of bullying I've seen with my son and other kids that this is used instead of discipline of the perpetrators, which is a way of blaming the victim and not dealing with the problem.  That is what I don't think people should accept.  It isn't OP's son's fault that he was hit anymore than it was my son's fault that he was bullied.  So, lunch bunch is not the way to deal with it.  You deal with the abuse and then if you see that you can offer the abused kid something to improve his/her interpersonal and social skills, great.  [/quote]

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