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Since it's come up a lot lately, were you ever bullied in school?
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<blockquote data-quote="1 Day At a Time" data-source="post: 433225" data-attributes="member: 3704"><p>My family moved often when I was a child, so I was almost always "the new kid". My Dad would direct me to fight back if I was bullied, but to never bully. I'm ashamed to admit that I was a tough kid, and while kids would attempt to bully me - because the new kids always are challenged - the problem never lasted very long. I'm not really proud of those days, but adults were determined to let kids work it out on their own.</p><p></p><p>I never understood the depth of today's bullying problem until I observed my sons' problems with it; and I'm certain there was much that I didn't know about. I only stepped in once - and it was a big step in. One of difficult child's third grade classmates pulled me aside and told me that difficult child was routinely punched, knocked down, and kicked on the recess field when the teacher's back was turned. What a brave little girl she was! Words hurt - but a beating is completely unacceptable. We had difficult child transferred from this school, even though the other parents gave us a lot of grief over the transfer. (They viewed us as abandoning the school - we were heavily involved with fundraising, club sponsorship, room parenting, etc). It was the best choice we ever made in difficult child's schooling.</p><p></p><p>Valerie</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="1 Day At a Time, post: 433225, member: 3704"] My family moved often when I was a child, so I was almost always "the new kid". My Dad would direct me to fight back if I was bullied, but to never bully. I'm ashamed to admit that I was a tough kid, and while kids would attempt to bully me - because the new kids always are challenged - the problem never lasted very long. I'm not really proud of those days, but adults were determined to let kids work it out on their own. I never understood the depth of today's bullying problem until I observed my sons' problems with it; and I'm certain there was much that I didn't know about. I only stepped in once - and it was a big step in. One of difficult child's third grade classmates pulled me aside and told me that difficult child was routinely punched, knocked down, and kicked on the recess field when the teacher's back was turned. What a brave little girl she was! Words hurt - but a beating is completely unacceptable. We had difficult child transferred from this school, even though the other parents gave us a lot of grief over the transfer. (They viewed us as abandoning the school - we were heavily involved with fundraising, club sponsorship, room parenting, etc). It was the best choice we ever made in difficult child's schooling. Valerie [/QUOTE]
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