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[quote=Anonymous]I have a 6th grade daughter, and if she were the one being bullied, I think our first step would be to have her make an appointment with her counselor. School systems these days have a lot of procedures in place to deal with bullying (if only for liability reasons), and if the school is really making the effort, the counselor will activate those plans right away.

That way, she'd be empowered to take positive action on her own, and she'd be able to talk to the counselor about her own feelings and reactions to the bullying. (I know my husband and I would probably both get so worked up we'd wind up dominating the conversation!)

If the counselor downplayed the bullying, or the school's actions didn't solve the problem, then I'd step in and raise hell. First mention of "Well, one of them probably just has a crush on you," and I'd be down there so fast it would make your head spin.

If it were something more physically endangering, I'd personally call the school right away, of course. But for repeated teasing like this, stuff that's emotionally but not physically hurtful, I think I'd let my daughter try to talk with the counselor on her own to start with (assuming she was comfortable with that). It's hard to know whether involving parents will make things worse in a situation like this, so I'd probably err on the side of caution at first.[/quote]

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