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[quote=Anonymous]OP are you in a public middle school? Or private?  I would call start with calling the school. At the middle school I worked at, the correct person to handle it was the vice principal. The counselors would work on reconciling. At the school I worked at, there were not really incidents of this kind of bullying - lots of OTHER incidents, but not a group of boys harassing a girl like this.  My friend's dd was at a middle school where stuff like this happened to her dd.  She had to pretty much raise hell because that school did not have good procedures for handling it.

If I were you, I would 1)  DO NOT CONTACT ANOTHER PARENT  2) Call the school and ask the school secretary which administrator handles bulllying.  They will be able to tell you who it is, their name and their email address, and let you leave vm for them. Your dd is being continually targeted by a group of boys from her old school (this doesn't surprise me, BTW)  3) put everything in to writing in to an email, any names she has told you, when these things have happened (between classes, during classes, etc). If your dd says any kids were witnesses, include their names.  Your dd is not feeling safe at school.  Ask them to speak with your dd.  (At the school I worked out, the school policy is to ask the students to provide a written statement of what has happened and how it is affecting them. There is a form for it or kids can do their own. If the school has this process, they will still ask your dd to write it but you should give as much info as you can in writing in yours.   4) for your dd, she may not want you to do this. This is one of those times when you need to do it anyway.  She needs to be safe and feel safe at school. If she is not feeling safe then she is not learning.  5) expect that they will interview the kids, talk to the teachers etc to investigate.

Schools have strong policies for this and take it seriously now. Your dd should NOT be terrorized at school.  I would hope that the school will handle this well. This is what they do.

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