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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Amazing how everyone pins blame on the teacher. If my kid is being bullied at school I would want the other parent to take it seriously and not hand wave it away with creative theories of a plot to target the child. Also, harsh punishment leads to mean and angry kids so it sounds plausible that the kid is acting out.[/quote]

The teacher is reporting one actual mean comment. That is not bullying. I don’t know OP or her kid so I have no idea what happened but it sounds like one actual thing happened and the teacher is mostly editorializing. That is what many of us are responding to. My DD has been the kid who the teacher decided was “bad” and while my child did need extra help (which we got them, as fast as possible!!) the experience of being denigrated by the teacher was incredibly painful and counterproductive. We have not had the same experience again (thank god!!!) but I know there’s another teacher in my child’s grade that is overwhelmed and handling things like this poorly. I am incredibly sympathetic to what a hard job teachers have but it is still not a good practice to label students “mean girls” especially at 6. [/quote]

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