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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My ds is 9 and already dealing with this, I agree it is awful. These boys treat each other so terribly and it’s all very much based on whatever a few kids decide is the most compelling “currency”. I’m hopefully that ds will find some nice friends but he’s really struggling. There are days when he doesn’t want to go to school at all because of the bullying behavior of the other boys. 
Sorry I don’t have any advice, just solidarity. [/quote]

This is so heartbreakingly true. My DS is also 9, and despite being at the absolute top of a couple of sports, the only sports his class of boys think matter right now are football and lacrosse. That is the only currency. Those are not his sports. As he puts it, "the only thing they care about is being cool, and being cool means excluding people." What this has translated to is a total icing out of kids who aren't in the football and lacrosse crew, with a some on the outside trying hard to get in by being mean to others. DS has a couple of nice friends, but basically these boys are horrible to one another.

The only things that have helped a little are tripling down on hangouts with a few of the boys who tend to be a little nicer, doing as much as we can to set up hangouts with non-school friends, and frankly, doing a lot of things as a family.  [/quote]

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