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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Throwing someone’s eraser away is unkind but it does not make her a bully. People WAY overuse that word.[/quote]

It’s hilarious what “unkind” has to stretch to mean. [b]That 11 year old is an ahole and not likely to change.[/b] “Sweet Larla went through a phase where she unkindly trashed others’s belongings and made pointed nasty comments.”[/quote]

Because she threw someone’s eraser away? You cannot possibly be serious. Kids can be jerks- no question about that- but if I wrote off every friend/classmate of my kids’ who has done something like this over the years….I don’t think there would be many left. [/quote]

Because by and large parenting in upper elementary in the kinds of schools and communities under discussion here are accommodating of bad behavior with mild or no rebuke. I have a same-aged girl and cannot imagine the personality, the acts, the choices where it would not be totally shocking to have her go through someone else’s desk, trash stuff, or to be known as nasty with her comments. That IME takes years of cultivation by parents absolutely ignoring mean crap, failing to adhere to reasonable consequences for bad behavior. It’s not out of nowhere. It takes a long time for someone to feel this level of confidence with pulling sht at school.

I’m really “progressive” by political measures but cannot believe what parents excuse. The sarcasm, meanness, nastiness. It was not always like this, certainly not when I was a kid. A spade could be called a spade pretty safely.[/quote]

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