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[quote=Anonymous]Certainly part of the problem is that many people use bullying as a catchall phrase that goes far beyond the definitions schools and others use with respect to bullying.  For example, it seems a stretch to call the message suggesting what girls should wear bullying, and I would think the proper response to something like that would be to tell your child to ignore it rather than to contact the parents.  This is also a problem in the schools when kids are taught that if they label behavior they do not like as bullying, they will get a response, so just about everything gets that label, and kids become immune.  There are lots of real issues with respect to bullying and they need to be taken seriously, but calling cliques and gossip are probably best treated differently.  It is also interesting that a number of posters suggested actions like calling the school even though the original poster provided no details, this is not to say that OP's child is not being subjected to serious bullying, just that we should be more precise in our definitions, particularly when raising issues of bullying.      [/quote]

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