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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree that telling the Admin is a good idea. And go to the top.  With proof.

I'd also manage your expectations. Our sixth grader was the object of awful cyber bullying by grademates (widespread distribution of things shared in a small, closed group that should not have been shared at all, frankely). Because DC had initially participated in the topic, they were treated as complicit and the school disciplined non one. In the end, the Principal (SFS) told us that DC would have to choose to leave the school in order to outrun the situation

I understand that it's difficult to 'put the genie back in the bottle', but this really sucked[/quote]

yes, one of the most common and most awful forms of cyber bullying is to take something that the child herself or himself wrote that was inappropriate (content that is sexual, racial, etc.), and then forward it around to whatever audience (peers, school admin, strangers, public posting) that will most humiliate and harm the victim. of course to some degree it is their own fault for writing or saying the bad stuff in the first place.  But the bullies are very skilled at goading the victim into saying/doing something wrong, which they will do in an effort to fit in and be included, and then turning what they said or did against them.  And school administrators are often not very good at sorting out who is the bully and who is the victim in these scenarios.[/quote]

This is precisely what happened to our DC. Admin there made a passing effort at seeming sympathetic but ultimately did nothing. So disappointing[/quote]

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