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[quote=Anonymous]My 7th grader is being bullied by a boy who's family we are WELL familiar with, as my daughter used to be friends with his older sister. The older sister, now in high school, started drinking at the end of middle school, which is when my daughter walked away from her and the rest of that crowd.   The family is quite troubled (drunk father, uninvolved mother)  so I'm not surprised the boy is a bully. Regardless, HE is not my issue - my son is.

Kid and his friend took my son's  phone (they are allowed to use it on the bus as an iPod, etc) and hid it,  and relentlessly harass my son.  My son sits away from them but they deliberately position themselves on the bus to harass him. The bus driver is useless, in a "not my job" sort of way.  My son and this kid went to elementary school together, and it was tail end of last year this kid started behaving like a bully.  My son showed me a thread on instagram where he said all sorts of nasty things to my son, as well as to other kids, and I printed it out.  The kid even went as far as to bring me into the conversation in a "no one will ever like you but your mother" type way. Nice. My son has his own friends and usually steers clear of this kid due to his reputation, which has worked - till now.

I've contacted the Middle School today and told them that I want this looked into, that this kid was a problem in elementary school, that his behavior is continuing, and I will NOT tolerate it. I made it QUITE clear they are not to drop the ball on this and they promised to look into it. I will bring in the printout from Instagram to reinforce my point, that this kid is nasty towards others.   If I need to, I will bring up my friend's daughter, who has now graduated high school, and the physical and emotional bullying she endured on their buses, to which they did nothing, even when she was physically assaulted. At that point, my friend drove her daughter daily to get her off the bus, then sent her to a private high school.

My son has defended himself in that he's tried to move away from this kid, has told him to knock it off, etc. everything short of smacking him a good one. I've always told my son he is not to throw the [i]first [/i]punch;  he's never gotten into a physical altercation.  He's always handled his own conflicts in the past, minor that they were. This is his first real experience with a class A bully.  He's tried handling it on his own now to no avail and asked me to step in.

Any advice for what I should say to the school? I have some pretty clear ideas but would like some feedback.

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