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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Finding out from the teacher that my 11yo 5th grade child spent the entire year eating lunch alone is tearing at my heart. He would always say lunch was good and never mention that he was alone at the table he sat at. When I found out and asked him, he says that he was fine and didn’t need company. I wish someone would have encouraged other kids to sit with him.

I worry that I may be feeling this more deeply as I was a severely depressed teenager who made multiple attempts so this worries me that he could end up like I did. I also do not want to place unrelated pressure onto him as I was also in a different setting, neighborhood, and life circumstance. So I’m torn on how to approach this but he will also be going to middle school next year.

If you sat alone at lunch in school, did you feel like it caused you sadness or were you truly content? [/quote]

So sad that the student didn't have one trusted adult to turn to to see if they could assist. But sadly, it's the reality that students don't have a trusted adult at school and in many students' experiences, they have found that their counselor will gossip a student's situation to another student instead of actually trying to help the student. And that one experience with a counselor affects their school journey for the remaining school years. Sad.[/quote]

Assist how? I was one of those kids and hid in the bathroom and library. Having an adult notice this and force me to “make friends” would have made me dread lunch period even more. [/quote]

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