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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No dog in the fight here — my kids go to Big 3 schools.

However, it is totally disingenuous to say that a grade is “lovely,” then say just because there’s a few bad eggs doesn’t mean it ain’t.

Middle school dynamics are challenging everywhere. However, if even a few kids are being bullied, that reflects badly on the entire school.

If an administration can’t respond effectively to social aggression among a few kids, those kids will set the tone for the school.  So sad that people are delegitimizing the experience of girls who were bullied, saying it’s just a few parents with “sour grapes.”

If my daughters had been bullied and the school did not respond effectively, I certainly would sour on the school.

The fact that supposedly mature adults would say this about the way little girls were treated and minimize their pain says some ugly things about the SSSAS parent community,

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No - we’re saying the school HAS responded as best they can to a difficult situation. Schools can stop actual bullying, but they can’t stop hurt feelings. If someone with inside information wants to share actual details about what the school failed to do, I’d love to hear it. But my understanding is this stems from a couple of parents who are upset they can’t 100% protect their kids from friendship drama.

Also goodness as well as knowledge has been their motto for decades, it isn’t new.
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20:09 here. Sorry, you still sound like you are minimizing. What you call friendship drama, another parent might call bullying. I’ve seen schools refuse to call bullying by it’s right name, because then they’d have to do something about it. Instead they use words like “relational aggresssion” or “friendship drama.”  There is a way to stop this kind of behavior. It’s like correcting a toddler. You have to respond every single time, and be willing to escalate the disciplinary response, including and up to expulsion.

BTW, hurt feelings can be caused by bullying.  :roll: [/quote]

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