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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]our "well regarded" k-8 has a toothless bullying policy.  parents don't want to complain and be seen as "problem parents" because it could affect your child's admission to private 9th grade.  lots of mean discord chats and group text chains, one student takes other kids' photos from the online school directory without their permission and posts them in his chat as others make fun of the kid. my DC says this particular bullying student and his buddies then bother kids at school in person - teachers are too busy to care, bullying kids don't listen when the other kids tell them to stop.  very disappointing and concerning.[/quote]

Discord and other social media really has nothing to do with the school.  The school should work with the parents but I'm not sure always what a school can do if  the parents are checked out and don't monitor the social media.  We're pretty disappointed at what our kids show us on discord.  We talk regularly about it and try to  monitor it and remind our kids to stay out of it.[/quote]

Where this is connected to the school - like misappropriating a school photo or “bothering” kids at school - it has everything to do with the school and is very much the school’s responsibility. The school can discipline the student, including expelling them. Isn’t that what private schools do?

Parents don’t know or care. The school washes their hands. Other parents (you) tell your kids to stay out of it and don’t report it to the school. No one does anything.

And the victims suffer.

Nice warm community you got there.
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