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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You need to tell the teacher that she is being bullied and if they can’t improve it in a week request a change of classroom. [/quote]

I would just make sure that she’s not continuing to pursue this group that is not interested in playing with her.  There are other groups I’m sure that would be thrilled to play with her. [/quote]

+1 I have a kid who has gone through this and for her the issue was that her self-conception was that of a typical kid, but she was actually a kid with interests that were not totally mainstream. She saw that the kids who shared her interests were ostracized, so she continued to try to be friends with the mean girls even though they didn't consume the same media or engage in the same activities.

It was frustrating as a parent, because she was actually being unkind to the kids who shared her interests. But I also felt badly for her because her feelings were genuinely hurt. We had approximately 1 million conversations about being nice to the kids who were nice to you, and how popularity doesn't matter, and how she was going to be happier if she would just decide to be friends with the kids that she had things in common with.

It took some time and maturity, but she has fully settled into her actual peer group at this point. Is there something similar in the mix with your child?[/quote]

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