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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op said she was handling it.  All she wanted to know if this talk was new because she didn't remember it in high school.  I graduated 12 years ago and can remember a couple of kids who.said things like that.  They were troubled kids from difficult backgrounds [/quote]

She said she was handling it but only mentioned that the counselor talked with these boys. No way to know if that is all that's been done to handle it. If not, great, but if so, she does need some prompting to do a lot more. Not that she's ignoring this at all, but it's just that some of us here are concerned that if "handling it" means just a talk from the counselor - that is not working, obviously. Maybe OP is doing everything that various posts here have suggested but we don't know and her daughter's situation sounds like it needs some immediate and pretty drastic action taken.

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I had a similar reaction.  I thought by "handling it" OP meant she was helping her daughter cope.  People around here overuse the term "bullying" but in this case it applies.  And this is the type of bullying that causes emotional scars.  I think many of us are just trying to have OP's back and encourage her to keep going until someone stops these kids.

I strongly disagree with the suggestion that OP's daughter type back "fuck you," or whatever.  This doesn't come from people who now anything about bullying.  First of all, the bullies would LOVE tog et that kind of reaction.  Its great drama for them.  They are trying to provoke a reaction, so giving it to them only reenforces what they are doing.  Second, it should not be OP's DD's job to put these kids in their place.  Adults need to do that.

Talking to the kids is worthless.  And, OP, if anyone at the school suggests bringing in your DD to talk with them, you should absolutely refuse.  That is not the way to deal with bullies (and when has that ever worked, for anything?)  The kids need to be punished.  Period.  if they had punched OP's DD, no one would suggest "talking" with them.  This is potentially even more serious.[/quote]

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