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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, what have you done to document these issues? If the answer is nothing, then start now. Write down specific events, dates, names and keep a log at home. Record how many days she comes home crying. Use this information to email your child's teacher and copy the principal and assistant principal. Include detail on how this makes your daughter feel. Ask what specifically they are doing to address these issues. Ask for a meeting. Physical and emotionally abusive encounters need to be dealt with, whether at school or on the bus, and you should insist that they be addressed. If the responses are not to your satisfaction, escalate. The school board members have email addresses online and they read their emails. I have personally witnessed a school board member being told, after the fact, of a discriminatory issue at a school and she stated, email us because we want to hear about these issues.

My daughter was in APS starting in preschool and she somehow lost her winter coat on a sub-20 degree day, and APS sent her on home with no coat and no call to me. I showed up in person to complain to the assistant principal because I felt that the school needed to do a better job of looking after their very young charges. Obviously a piddling issue, but the point is you need to show up and make yourself known. [b]APS parents complain about everything and the squeaky wheel does indeed get the grease. 
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I can't speak to what this must be like on a personal level for you, we are a white family. But I would encourage you to advocate strongly for your daughter and to let her see you advocate. Otherwise, she may take away the message that her concerns are trivial, that what is happening to her is NBD and just something she has to accept. That's not correct. Bullying and especially race-based bullying is wrong. I believe your daughter will benefit from seeing her parents in her corner, stating strongly that this is wrong.

I'm sorry you're going through this.[/quote]

+1000 In 22207 ONLY the squeaky wheels get the grease, because there are so damn many of them. 
I too am sorry this is happening to you. [/quote]

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