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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you really think the school wants to deal with this? Then it's all discoverable.

It sounds like your sixth-grade kid wanted to sit further back on the bus, where the 7th and then 8th graders sit. That's a slap in the face against the older kids who paid their dues. Furthermore, it's that hierarchy and "learn your place" system that helps overworked school administrators run a school where there's just not the time to babysit each and every kid.

You want everyone to take care of your kid, but you can't bother to head over to school to pick DC up. So DC gets on the bus, and then expects everyone to be polite automatically. Sorry, that's not how the world works.

Deal with your kid's flaws and social dorkiness; don't make problems for lots of other people because you checked out on parenting and failed to give what DC needs to be cool.[/quote]

Under what circumstances is it OK for a dork to get bullied, and how far is too far? When a knife gets pulled or is that OK since dorks need to know their place?

The key for administrators in their anti-bullying work is to determine when it's just ordinary schoolyard shit and when you've got a junior psychopath on your hands. If these kids are picking a different sixth grader at random each week and giving him that business, then that's totally different than a 6th grader asserting the ancient rights of 8th graders and getting a minor smackdown in the process.

If your kid was not even visibly hurt (except an injured pride), anything other than an FYI to the school admins is escalating.

Also if your kid gets over it in a week and there's no repeat, maybe you need to as well. [/quote]

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