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[quote=Anonymous]OP here. Thanks everyone for your advice. I had a long time with DD when she came home from school yesterday. I asked her what happened and she said that the older girl in the 6th grader group tried to push her out of the way (using the elbow) trying to cut in line. I honestly do not want to make a big deal out of this so I explained to her that there were 2 ways how we could deal with it:

1. Those kids are jerks. DD can just ignore them and hang back because they are not worth getting in a fight with them.

2. We wait for a few more days. I will be there at the bus stop with her. If things don't improve or get worse, we will contact the school/principal and ask them to get involve.

DD said she wants to go with #2 and that she could handle herself.

The reason I brought up "bullying" was because I was so mad at the time and had every intention to call the principal. The school might not take it seriously if someone calls and complains about this kid is rude/mean to my kid, these kinds of calls. So I thought if it was really bullying, that will get their attention. Nowadays, the school takes bullying very seriously. DD's school has counselors that come in every month or so to talk about it. DD brought home a flyer about "how to identify bullying" and one of the thing in there was something like: someone that repeatedly says bad thing about another person or telling others not to talk/play with that person because such and such. I was kind of surprised when I saw that.

To the person that told me to "go HOME": thank you. You have help me understand now how kids can be a jerks at such a young age. I can easily see you as a parent of one the 6th grader at our bus stop.

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