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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Without revealing too much it would be great if some people could relay some incidents of bullying? I will start, my daughter saw a piece of paper where a girl had written something disparaging about my daughter for all to see. I called school and the bully was given a talking to. The school felt this had to be done carefully lest the bully continue the behavior. It is my feeling the girl, just jealous...from a different back round and complicated family situation. Often the bully has problems and is insecure...needs attention. I told school that we did not have time nor tolerance for the bullying...it would interfere with my daughter's ability to get her work done and it just needed to STOP. I would not hesitate to pick up the phone myself and would have if school did not immediately address. Bully never bullied my daughter again.[/quote]

I'm a PP whose DD experienced quite a bit of meanness at NCS but I hesitate to use the word "bullying" in general.  It really describes relentless, ongoing behavior from a child who exerting power over the victim.  What happened to your DD was mean, but I wouldn't call it bullying.  We have to be careful about overusing the word and depriving it of meaning.  And frankly what you describe, though wrong, pales with some of the other stuff that has gone on.  My DD suffered ongoing verbal attacks from another girl, often in front of supposed friends who never spoke up, never did anything to support her.  She ended up becoming socially isolated.  The school treated it like an issue of my DD's fragility.[/quote]

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