I am at a loss to understand how you could have interpreted my comment to actally condone the 'picking on' of children ('harrassemnt' sounds so PC).
Kids will be kids and they will be picked on, especially if you give them a reason. Me? I was 13, first day at a new school and was overweight. I got picked on and it stopped right after my first fight, one which I did not win, but let's call it a 12 round split decision.
What I did not do, was cry to my parents and then seek a court decision to charge the school with intolerance to those who were "Calorically over enhanced."
Now what the mother might have said, to her young pagan daughter, could have gone like this:
"India, not all people believe as we do and we need to understand that they might not be accepting of our life force-earth-circle ritual nor of our rite of 'Fluffy the Bunny Goddess.'
"So rather then talk of us as being Pagan's, lets just be tolerent of their bizzarre behavior, like worshiping a man being tortured, or their attempted drowning of those who want to be a part of their sect. We need to practice what are earth priestesses preach, after all."