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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If the parents and community truly cared about mental health and bullying (two very serious topics) why was a formal complaint not made against the previous program?  The remedy would have been to replace the coach and educate the current players on what is acceptable and what is not.  In other words, fix the situation.  This way the player can stay in the home school.  No move would be needed.  If the old program was what they say it was, why subject future players to that environment?  [/quote]

"Bullying" is a complex issue. It is very much a perspective thing. There are certain kids who lack a social IQ, who don't know how to socialize and say things that are offensive or demeaning without knowing it and therefore are not well liked by others.

Anyone with kids probably has seen this play out. Not speaking on this case as I don't know any details but you can't just shut down a program or fire coaches because of bullying allegations.

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Bullying is not a “perspective thing”—thats dangerous to say. It's real and pervasive especially with social media that disappears with no record. If your child has not experienced it consider yourself lucky and for parents who think no way your kids could be involved talk to them because even just by laughing at a comment or a social media post or not saying anything to stop it makes them part of the problem. A lot of the bullying is in middle school so the ones who are so immature and insecure who continue to bully in high school are scary. That said, yes, people overuse the term but generally there is bad behavior involved and often the parents dismissing it have children involved.

And saying kids who say odd or inappropriate things and are therefore just unpopular or unliked excuses bad behavior. Often the kids who say these things have social or other issues maybe diagnosed or maybe not, may be going through some,, and maybe just need some nice friends to model better social IQ. How about let's teach our kids kindness and to include these kids struggling to fit in. Having one friend, and having classmates and teammates being inclusive, etc. can make a huge difference. Stop with the victim blaming!

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No one victim blaming here. I'm not even getting into social media. Yes, kids should be taught to be kind, turn the other cheek, try to be inclusive but I'm simply saying that who is being a bully and who is a bully can often times be a perspective thing, esp with teenage girls, which is so much more social thing.

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Spoken like someone that was a bully.  Probably a big failure in life now.[/quote]

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