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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Something is seriously wrong with people who wrote these comments:

"They aren't pushing her into the street in front of on-coming cars here".
"Serious would be a sixth grader holding a BB gun to the 4th grader's head, or waving around a broken bottle threatening to cut them."
"Bullying should be reserved for the shit that makes kids go home and kill themselves"

These kids are 6th graders and if you don't interfere NOW, who knows that they wouldn't do these things by the time they are in highschool.[/quote]

I'm that poster. I have kids from college to elementary school and I didn't interfere with stuff like this and it didn't blow up into major problems in high school. A sixth grader exerting some authority and testing their power over a younger kid is normal and doesn't automatically turn into something bigger. I grew up in NYC, where the things I described that you quoted did happen. Just because I don't raise my kids by escorting them to the bus stop and rushing in any time a kid is mean to them doesn't mean I am a person raising children to bully other people's children. That leap lacks logic. [/quote]

Would you want to know if your 6th grader was behaving this way?  What would you do if you were informed?[/quote]
Sure I would. My boyfriend and I would give her a Big Talk about it, tell her to apologize to the kid, and we'd threaten to embarrass her by walking her to the bus stop and waiting with her if she couldn't be trusted to behave without supervision. [/quote]

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