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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you have the parent's numbers/emails in the school directory?  Call them directly if the school has failed to stop the issue.

I remember when I was bullying a girl in ES (not proud of it but I was a bully at one point) the girl's mom called my mom and, well I'll just say I stopped after that.  If the girls' mothers are decent people they will put a stop to it. Chances are at least one of their mothers are decent.

You are right the girls are feeding off each other and will continue until it is properly addressed.

Side note - it is far fetched but maybe they are being taught faulty doctrine at their church where they aren't supposed to associate with non Christians?  Do you know if they go to a crazy church? If that's the case just keep your daughter away from them as their whole family is probably nuts.[/quote]

Do not call the other kids parents. I they were decent this would have already stopped because the parents have been called by the school and been made aware of the behavior. This is the school's responsibility. I also disagree with a PP that it's not for you to decide to separate the other two girls.  It most certainly is.[/quote]

How would OP go about separating two children, neither of whom is her own child?

Of course these two kids would be better off themselves and less likely to bully if they weren't a team. Yes, they're almost certainly encouraging each others' meanness.

But public schools (unless they have maybe a really daring principal who is willing to risk his or her job and risk litigation over privacy....) are not going to discuss any child with someone who is not a that child's parent or guardian. Period. There have been plenty of posts on DCUM over the years from parents frustrated because their school administrators, counselors or teachers refused to tell those parents how a bully was dealt with. That's the response OP will get if she pushes to have the school deal with these two girls as she wants. It's a waste of valuable energy and time for OP to try to make "separate these bullies from each other" an issue; her focus needs to stay on "separate both of these bullies from MY child." If the school administrators have brains they will separate the two bullies anyway, but it is not OP's to decide. Unfortunate, but that's how administrations have to operate. [/quote]

Yes, the focus should be separate both bullies from her child, but it's not unreasonable to continue to point out that the bullies are working in tandem every chance they get and it might help if they aren't allowed to sit together at lunch, etc. The principal doesn't have to tell the OP anything, but it doesn't mean the principal can't separate the other two kids to work on solving the problem.  If I was the parent I'd keep pointing out that nothing had been done to prevent the other two girls from acting as a team against OP's daughter.[/quote]

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