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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am unclear how this is bullying? Someone told him he can't do sit ups or pull ups because he is morbidly obese and you are calling that bullying? How was he bullied?

Removing him from PE is not the answer. [/quote]

I don't think it is bullying either.

You have man boobs -- mean, maybe bullying it if is on a continual basis.
You can't do pull ups -- not bullying.[/quote]

According to the OP:

[i]A particular senior has been leading this this the beginning of the year, and when I went in to talk to the teacher, he told me that he had not noticed this, but instead had noticed the senior 'motivating' my son.

The bullying involved the senior saying that my son would never be able to do such exercises as pull-ups or proper sit-ups (as neccisary as part of the P.E. curriculum). Apparently, this is encouragement to the P.E. teacher. [/i]

A) "would never be able to do such exercises" is not the same as "you can't do pull ups."  It implies the victim of the taunt will always be in a position of weakness.
B) it had been going on for a period of months (from the beginning of the year to her post in December is three months), which equals ongoing harrassment.

That's bullying.  It's not very different from me telling you that you'll always be dumb because you can't do Trigonometry.  If a child hears that negative messaging enough times, it has a severe effect on his motivation at school.  This has been proven to affect drop-out rates.

When I taunt you because you're dumb, the school is expected to take it seriously.  Similarly, when I repeatedly taunt you because you're overweight, or not as attractive as I am, or anything other thing at which I excel and you don't, that's bullying.[/quote]

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