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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you sure it's bullying and not roasting where it's fun and the children are in on the joke? [/quote]

Is there a difference? [/quote]

I'm a parent of a 5th grader and right away wondered the same thing -- especially since your son said everyone was doing it.  Bullying and roasting between friends are of course not the same thing!  I think the friends roasting each other is so weird, but I'm a middle age woman, not an 11 year old boy.  It's super common amongst 5th grade boys when friends get together (in person, not just in a chat).  And yes, they actually call it "roasting".  Maybe this group chat is your first exposure to it?  It is jarring.

No kid needs to be on a big group chat, though, so remove him if you want.  They are always dumb and vapid.  Tell him he can make a smaller text group with his closer friends.

Obviously if actual bullying is occurring then that is different...[/quote]

I understand,  from looking at the messsages it does look like its "roasting"  the problem is the school will see it the same way we do.  [/quote]

Can you give an example of roasting?[/quote]

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