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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  Thanks for the advice so far.  She is involved in one after school activity that does not include kids from school, and we are encouraging more involvement with that to expand her horizons.  She also has some friends in the neighborhood who she sees pretty regularly.

For those that suggest she change schools, she loves the school and is doing very well academically.  I'm somewhat resistant to the idea that DD has to uproot her life just because of the mean behavior of others.  It's like the harassed employee being the one who is forced to change jobs instead of addressing the harassment.  And aren't there mean people everywhere?

DD is a super sensitive kid, who wears her heart on her sleeve.  She gets upset easily, which perhaps make her an easy target for the meanness.  She can also be very dramatic.  But she is kind, funny and a very loyal friend.  This is so hard.
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I understand what you are saying, but realistically, in terms of attending a new school, your dd has 7th and 9th to move.  It might not hurt to look at a few other schools and apply out just in case dd is still miserable at the end of the year.  Being a lifer at a school can be really hard.  It can be a blessing to reinvent yourself at a new school.  My dd is at school that stops at a certain grade.  Most of the kids will go to the same school after the current school.  My dd will be going to a different school than most of her classmates in part because of the disproportionate number of mean girls DD has experienced for two years.  We are lucky there is a forced break, ie must leave school.  I'm sorry your daughter is going through this, kids can be really mean.  You are lucky though it sounds like your dd is a good person.  [/quote]

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