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[quote=Anonymous]Your DS hasn’t done anything wrong. My 4th grade DD happens to be in a cohort with truly mean boys who started this crap in 3rd grade. The boys who are doing the kicking seem to be friends with the boys they pick on, so it’s confusing for her to witness.

It’s a type of relational aggression that I thought was confined to girls. Boys in her grade are definitely mocking size, and it recently escalated to race and calling some of the kids gay (yes, she called them out on it in real time, also said what’s wrong with being gay, and immediately report it to adults).

I don’t have advice, just a sense that this is an infectious behavior that seems to bubble up in some cohorts and stick around. In our grade I think it is being driven by insane LL baseball team dynamics and video games. There are “nice” and “not nice” grades of boys at our school, and you might have stumbled into one of these intractable cohorts.

I begged my DD to just punch one of these kids when they were briefly bullying her. She wouldn’t do it and I suspect your DS wouldn’t either, which is pity because it’s the only thing that will stop this.

Document and report to school, but don’t expect anything to improve. Admin is terrified of stepping into stuff like this.[/quote]

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