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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is it bullying or teasing?  If teasing, I found the advice in the PEERS curriculum to be helpful.  I don’t remember it in detail but at the core it did not recommend ignoring teasing.  May be worth trying to find this guidance.[/quote]

Not OP, but that was actually one of the areas where I thought PEERS was week. I think if you have great verbal skills and think well on your feet, it may be useful, but for our kid sometimes the best thing to do was to pretend he didn't hear it and make an excuse to go to the water fountain or whatever or to laugh it off. I don't recall the specifics, but anytime he used a PEERS strategy that involved language (and his language is good enough for mainstream classes), it backfired and the kid did not let up.

Yes, the school was rarely helpful. Administration just protects themselves in how they deal. Occasionally you have a savy teacher who tunes in and nips it in the bud. Really what the schools should do it treat the bully as having a mental health issue and pressing the parents to get help. The few bullies I knew growing up did not turn out well. There are deranged parents who take pride in their kid being an "alpha" but most people don't want their kid to be a jerk.

I would not homeschool. My kid learned a lot of coping strategies having to deal with bullies and that will help in life. Have you ever had a bully boss/superior at work? I knew how to deal with them. My own sister was a bully. Some people I knew who never dealt with it in childhood just completely cracked facing it in adulthood.[/quote]

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