But school officials argued that Daniel's problems with bullying were rooted, in part, on his eccentricities, hygiene problems and his mother's inability to address his problems and get the counseling they recommended.
The American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry recommends that parents encourage their bullied children to talk about their problems and let them know what they are not at fault. They should also: ......
The school officials and the state are saying that the bullied kid deserved the bulling for all of these [personal] 'faults'.
Paradise is always where love dwells.
In third grade, my son was bullied by two much larger and older kids who had been held back a grade--my son had been advanced a grade, so he was two full years younger. He was hit, punched, and kicked on the way home.
On the playground, he beat the snot out of one of the bullies, and the teachers praised him. The other bully kept up his assaults on the way home, so I called his mother and complained. She cried, "His father will beat him if I tell him about this." I replied that I would press charges if it didn't stop, so she had better see to it that it did, whatever it took.
That was the end of the problem.
This took several weeks, which seemed like a year. We tried everything else before these extremes, and I did allow my son to have a couple of "mental health days" off, in addition to enrolling him in karate classes, which gave him a lot of self-confidence. His instructor was a gem.
My husband was working two jobs so I could stay home with the kids.
The schools shreik and rave about celebrating diversity but they certainly don't practice it - in my experience.