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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you sure it's bullying and not roasting where it's fun and the children are in on the joke? [/quote]

Is there a difference? [/quote]

I'm a parent of a 5th grader and right away wondered the same thing -- especially since your son said everyone was doing it.  Bullying and roasting between friends are of course not the same thing!  I think the friends roasting each other is so weird, but I'm a middle age woman, not an 11 year old boy.  It's super common amongst 5th grade boys when friends get together (in person, not just in a chat).  And yes, they actually call it "roasting".  Maybe this group chat is your first exposure to it?  It is jarring.

No kid needs to be on a big group chat, though, so remove him if you want.  They are always dumb and vapid.  Tell him he can make a smaller text group with his closer friends.

Obviously if actual bullying is occurring then that is different...[/quote]

I understand,  from looking at the messsages it does look like its "roasting"  the problem is the school will see it the same way we do.  [/quote]

I can assure you that the folks at the school are 100% familiar with 5th grade roasting, heh!  Is this even a school-sponsored group chat?  Or did one kid just create it on his ipad or phone and add a bunch of kids' apple ids/phone numbers?

I think these big group chats are simply a waste of time.  My DD is allowed to be on the one for her class, which she glances at occasionally, but does not post in.  I had her leave the bigger 5th grade one because it was just so dumb -- stupid roasting, kids posting the most inane youtube clips, etc.  Like just utterly stupid.  She has a group chat with her three close friends and a chat with sleepaway camp friends.  I'm fine with those.  When I was in 5th grade I talked to my friends on the phone a lot.  [/quote]

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