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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our child left a private school after 3rd grade for bullying and has had a much better experience in public school. I attribute this to the larger size class which allowed kids to find their people. In the small private, it was really easy for 1-2 kids to dictate social dynamics and friendships. In public school, you didn’t have to interact with kids you didn’t like. There were lots of kids to choose from. [/quote]

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The larger size of public schools can work in your favor in this regard. Bullying can happen anywhere, but in our large public (in FCPS) neither of my kids nor any of their friends that I'm close with the parents have raised bullying issues with me.  When I ask them about whether there's bullying in school they say there isn't (not that they would necessarily know for everyone).  There's some explicit anti-bullying/being a good friend/good bystander programming too that I think stems a lot of it before it starts at the elementary school age.  I know you can request a room change/put a kid on the list that you don't want your kid to be in the same class with if bullying did arise, but I haven't seen it as an issue.  [/quote]

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