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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's bullying.  Period.  Are you going to be able to stop it?  Probably not.[/quote]

If it leaves long-lasting physical or psychological scars, its bullying. To be told by your peers that "you aren't smart enough" to belong to our special group that the school system picked us to be in, is bullying. This child no doubt will self-label as being less intelligent. That label will likely remain in her psyche for years to come until or unless she learns to rise above it.[/quote]

So you assume the impact in order to justify the label.  By the same logic, anyone told by their peers they aren't talented enough for the all-star team has been bullied and will no doubt stop playing sports for years to come.

Ridiculous.  [/quote]

I guess you've never had a daughter come home crying because she was told she's not pretty by peers and no longer wants to even look in the mirror.  Or a son told he sucks at basketball, never want to play a sport involving balls again.  Your lack of empathy is cringe-inducing.[/quote]

As I said, you appear to live in a world of butthurt.  There are no kids whose feelings are not shaped and, at times, hurt by their peers, but they grow by learning their own strengths and developing resilience, not by having others jump in to rescue them at the first sign of hurt feelings, labeling other children as "bulliies," and demanding widespread changes to schools or programs to minimize the risk that their feelings could ever be hurt again. [/quote]

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