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[quote=Anonymous]Again: bullying is defined (in the laws of most states as well as by common sense) as behavior that is INTENDED to cause physical or emotional distress. It is not defined by the subjective pain of a child who feels left out.

That pain can be real and acute: I have seen it in my own children at times (at Burgundy). But there is a lightyear's distance between the child who deliberately mocks, taunts, tricks, insults or spreads malicious gossip -- a bully -- and the child who is simply not quite mature enough to go out out of his or her way to include a difficult peer.

In my experience, Burgundy comes down hard on genuine bullying. To counteract the non-malicious but still hurtful forms of marginalization, the school makes every effort to encourage empathy and inclusiveness, and I think that on the whole Burgundy kids are about as nice to one another as any group of kids could possibly be expected to be.  That doesn't mean they're not kids, and it doesn't mean no one will ever have their feelings hurt. But while I have plenty of criticisms of Burgundy, and voiced some earlier in this threat, the claim that the school is somehow soft on bullying is just nonsense.

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