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<blockquote data-quote="Mattsmom277" data-source="post: 336635" data-attributes="member: 4264"><p>Gosh, that burns me. I hope you get some satisfaction and results! </p><p></p><p>I'm in the EXACT same boat with my easy child and her school. She doesn't intentionally show off but her grades are always top of her class. She has won highest academic achievement in her school since grade 1 (She's in grade 5 now). She just loves school. She is also well behaved. It is just the norm for her, ingrained in her being. She can't break rules. Doesn't talk in class. Listens to authority. She's then labelled a goody goody etc. Its like her fate or something. She couldn't break a rule if she wanted to, which she just doesn't want to. </p><p></p><p>She wants so badly to make friends. Yet she's a hockey playing tomboy in a class (and school) of girly girls from very rich homes. Although we are low income, our district is in the wealthy part of town so the kids are uber spoiled and pampered. Truly I feel like instead of northern Canada I'm living in a Manhattan socialite world sometimes with these moms and their kids. Even the kids who live easy child, often only play with her when certain ring leaders are away ill (or more often, gone from school multi times a year for lavish holidays in parts far far away). Then they get their leaders back and she is person non gratis. </p><p></p><p>She is a huge target. She has known these kids since she first started school (JK). Its pathetic how it continues. She does the right thing too. They know she wont' hit first, or at all. Last year she did shove a boy back that hit her, landed him on his butt. He never bugged her again, but the torch is always passed along Know what I mean?? She tells the monitors or teachers. Nothing gets done. Even repeat offenders, despite the zero tolerance policy (what a crock that is) and despite our provincial laws that dictate the response to bullying and violence at school (which mean nothing when not enforced) get at most a call for their mommies to come in. </p><p></p><p>I've heard: X is just a high strong boy, he didn't know what he was doing was actually HURTING her (after he bit her and drew blood). Y reacted badly to his peers goading him into this behaviour and has been spoken to and it won't happen again (but it did, over and over). Z was put out that when your daughter brought cupcakes and their were extras, she didn't pass one to Z. Z felt your daughter didn't like her and reacted poorly when she retaliated by throwing your daughter into that wall. She realizes it was a mistake and will apologize. (which Z did, apologize. Then about 3 weeks later put gum in easy child's long hair and laughed saying maybe she'd now cut it all off instead of wearing it long in a pony tail, and find a "Style" that doesn't scream lesbian). </p><p></p><p>Never have I seen a suspension over any of these things. easy child is desperate to leave this school which we can't do until we move. We were going to wait for S/O's military posting in 2 years, but just yesterday I phoned a local property management company that runs a division of property rentals that I've always admired and is in a school district where I know this kind of level of **** doesn't go unnoticed or undisciplined. </p><p></p><p>I wish you the best of luck. Zero tolerance should mean zero tolerance.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mattsmom277, post: 336635, member: 4264"] Gosh, that burns me. I hope you get some satisfaction and results! I'm in the EXACT same boat with my easy child and her school. She doesn't intentionally show off but her grades are always top of her class. She has won highest academic achievement in her school since grade 1 (She's in grade 5 now). She just loves school. She is also well behaved. It is just the norm for her, ingrained in her being. She can't break rules. Doesn't talk in class. Listens to authority. She's then labelled a goody goody etc. Its like her fate or something. She couldn't break a rule if she wanted to, which she just doesn't want to. She wants so badly to make friends. Yet she's a hockey playing tomboy in a class (and school) of girly girls from very rich homes. Although we are low income, our district is in the wealthy part of town so the kids are uber spoiled and pampered. Truly I feel like instead of northern Canada I'm living in a Manhattan socialite world sometimes with these moms and their kids. Even the kids who live easy child, often only play with her when certain ring leaders are away ill (or more often, gone from school multi times a year for lavish holidays in parts far far away). Then they get their leaders back and she is person non gratis. She is a huge target. She has known these kids since she first started school (JK). Its pathetic how it continues. She does the right thing too. They know she wont' hit first, or at all. Last year she did shove a boy back that hit her, landed him on his butt. He never bugged her again, but the torch is always passed along Know what I mean?? She tells the monitors or teachers. Nothing gets done. Even repeat offenders, despite the zero tolerance policy (what a crock that is) and despite our provincial laws that dictate the response to bullying and violence at school (which mean nothing when not enforced) get at most a call for their mommies to come in. I've heard: X is just a high strong boy, he didn't know what he was doing was actually HURTING her (after he bit her and drew blood). Y reacted badly to his peers goading him into this behaviour and has been spoken to and it won't happen again (but it did, over and over). Z was put out that when your daughter brought cupcakes and their were extras, she didn't pass one to Z. Z felt your daughter didn't like her and reacted poorly when she retaliated by throwing your daughter into that wall. She realizes it was a mistake and will apologize. (which Z did, apologize. Then about 3 weeks later put gum in easy child's long hair and laughed saying maybe she'd now cut it all off instead of wearing it long in a pony tail, and find a "Style" that doesn't scream lesbian). Never have I seen a suspension over any of these things. easy child is desperate to leave this school which we can't do until we move. We were going to wait for S/O's military posting in 2 years, but just yesterday I phoned a local property management company that runs a division of property rentals that I've always admired and is in a school district where I know this kind of level of **** doesn't go unnoticed or undisciplined. I wish you the best of luck. Zero tolerance should mean zero tolerance. [/QUOTE]
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