My younger son was bullied in Kindergarten. Yes, Kindergarten. Looking back, I would actually call it sexual harassment. Another Kindergartener kept searching him out and telling him "When you love someone you suck their balls" and showing him what that meant. After multiple attempts to get the school to do something we ultimately pulled him out. The teachers tried to empower him, but when you have as many kids as they did there is only so much you can do. When there are like 300 kids on the playground at a time you can't see everything. The administrative staff at Sheridan Elementary, where my son went to school, minimized all of my complaints. At the end of his Kindergarten year I asked the principal to please make sure that he and the other child were not in the same class. When class lists came out the next year they were in the same class again. When I went to the principal about it she told me it was because they both tested into the gifted cluster. Then she told me the only thing she could do was move Grego since I was the one complaining... Um YEAH I am complaining! So she moved him into a English as a Second Language class... putting him at a disadvantage. He ended up having a good year, but the more I volunteered at the school the more I saw how powerless the teachers were against this type of behavior among other types.
When will we wake up? Now I've heard that the same child was bullying a friend of Gregory's and once again the school did nothing. That child's parents are now homeschooling him too. If I had it to do over I would have called the cops. Don't let your child be bullied... And don't trust the school to handle it. It's not working that way.
Here's a story on 1 Ohio school, 4 teens dead....
