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[quote=Anonymous]One thing to keep in mind: there's teasing and there's bullying.  Learn the difference and know when to complain.  OSSE has some very specific processes in place when a child is identified as a bully.  If the school recognizes that a child is being bullied, they have to report it as bullying in their incident reports.  This raises the threshold of what can be done for interventions.

My child was bullied unmercifully by a child in 3rd grade who had a whole posse (the child was very violent as well as using verbal taunts).  The school was aware of it and this same kid and their posse bullied other kids.  But, the school kept reporting the bullying incidents as disruptive behavior.  Once I complained up the chain and cited the OSSE rules, they started reporting it as bullying.  This gave my child a right to much more protection in the classroom and enabled the school and DCPS to target additional resources to the bully's family as well.

Sometimes schools don't realize that they have the ability to handle bullies in ways that end up with more direct intervention in the situation.  In this case, the school felt like they kept reporting the violent behavior and nothing was done by DCPS headquarters, which actually is the one that has to intervene.  Elevating the behavior as bullying really helped. Things are a lot better now.[/quote]

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