What is your stand in bullying?

This really upset me. The little girl did not want to go to school for a reason, she was so scared, terrified of going to school and she got hit for it. That's just devastating. I think you handled it better than your friend did, you gave great advice. However it is really important that she follows up on this, even if the teachers assure her that they will fix the problem, it is important that your friend talks every single day with her little girl about how her day was at school. I know that a lot of teachers turn a blind eye to bullying for whatever reason and if the girl has any hesitation about going to school, your friend must go to the principal and demand something be done until the problem is fixed. Even if your friend has to take her daughter out of school or change schools, she must do anything it takes as bullying can have lifelong negative effects on kids. Here in Australia about a month ago a boy was stabbed at school by another student. Everyone immediately sympathised with the boy who was stabbed and there were Facebook groups started up naming the boy who did the stabbing, and nasty comments were posted about him. These boys were only 13 years old. It turns out that my cousin actually goes to that school and the story is that the boy who was stabbed was bullying the other kid. This went on for months and months and the school did nothing about it. He had just had enough so one day took a knife to school- the bully started on him again so he pulled out the knife. I don't condone violence at all but I understand why he was pushed to do this. I wish the little girl all the best and as a friend of the mother I hope you can keep an eye on this horrible situation and make sure she follows up and communicates with her daughter to make sure the problem is completely resolved.

i really don stand bullying.i hate it.It like have been a tradition in school or college for the senior to bullying in my country.I also one of the victim.To handle this i think teacher should take this matter seriously and not just saying its ok.

I think bullying is getting to be more of a problem. Sometimes the teachers and the principles don't do much until parents complain like 5-6 times. a friend of mine is dealing with the same thing with her son. he is getting bullied and one of his friends wont be friends with hm during the week because he didnt want to get bullied either. Its sad that kids at this age are so worrid about being bullied, how can they focus on school and being kids if they are worried about being bullied.

I think that you gave very good advise, I don't think that parents should confont the children even though that is usually our first instinct, to protect our kids and go afer the threat. The schools take these things very serious and unfortunetly there is a rise in this sort of thing. Getting the parents all together with a nuetral party such as the teacher or principl is the best way of handling these situations. I hope that your friends child is able to go to school without being afraid soon. Nothing worse than going to places where a person feels threatened, especially when that place should be a safe place. Good luck to all involved.

I hate bullying and all judgment period. We are all humans and from the same species and none of us deserve the right to act like we are better then anybody else. Equality has still yet to become something that truly exists because there seems to always be cruel people that have nothing better to do but gossip and talk badly about other people. Bullying is really a shameful and moronic act that can truly hurt kids if they are pushed to far. A believe that a lot of bullies are either trying to be funny or are trying to impress somebody because I can't really think of any other reason for someone trying to mean to someone. Even that isn't a good reason.

I wish your friend would have not punished her daughter for not wanting to go to school, even though I know it is hard to keep your cool with a child who will not listen. I think you gave her good advice, that is the best action to take. Half the time the parents of the bullies will not accept their children can do such terrible things, because they want to protect their own children and that is natural. Please keep talking to your friend's daughter to make sure things are going ok with her, because as somebody who was bullied through all 12 years of school, I can tell you she is going through a very hard time right now and it is going to stick with her the rest of her life.

That's one thing that never happen to me when I am in my elementary days or high school days. Looking back there's not much bullying happening in my school...generally most of the kids were behave and obedient students.It's the new generation of kids today that is different they are much more hyper and matured earlier than before but sometimes cruel in attitudes...the best thing to do is report to the school authorities for proper attention and discipline for the offenders.

i hate bullies. ive been bullie from first grade up to eighth grade. pay back was sweet. my daughter was bullied in school even though i told her fighting dont prove anything but if comes down to it, then do it. ive been to her schools a few time, then they got sick of seeing me. but make sure and tell the poor little girl she need to let mom know and the her teacher, if the teacher dont do her/ his job then mom need to raise hell.

There are lots of programs designed to help schools and other Institutions prevent bullying. It's kind of a hot topic these days in a small sort of way. Hopefully the things that researchers have and will come up will help limit the scope of the problem in the future. However, I'm quite confident that it will never go away entirely. It seems to me that bullying is just one of those things that are just a part of human nature. Something that can be suppressed but not eliminated.