No more school buses

[lizzybennet]

I'm not letting the kids ride the bus anymore. I'm just tired of the small acts of bullying that constantly go on at that school. And when my kids tell the bus driver/teacher/recess monitor, they never get help. They get ignored. They get told "Well, if you don't know the kids name than I can't do anything about it." Or they get told that it was their fault. The totally ironic thing is that this school makes such a huge deal about fighting bullying. One of their weekly activities (like library or music) is counseling. Fat lot of good that does. How about the kid who calls Petey "Pee"? Or the kid who punched him in the back when he tried to clean up a ball at recess? Or what about the kid who called zack a chicken weiner? Or the kid who stole his jacket and hid it?

Chris hates this school but I've been more forgiving. I've been willing to give them the benefit of a doubt. Not anymore. My kids aren't riding the bus, which means they won't be there for before-school recess (which is where most of this happens.) I'll pick them up after school too, so they don't have to deal with mean kids and an indifferent bus driver. Last night when Zack told me about the chicken weiner remark, it was just too much. I remember how kids can get away with a lot (A LOT) on buses. I don't want my kids exposed to that.

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[mysteena.livejournal.com]

I haven't talked to the school about it yet. I have parent/teacher conferences at the end of this week. I'll talk to the teachers about it at that point. I do realize that as a girl/woman, there are definitely aspects of being a boy, and the ways that boys interact with each other that I don't understand. If these incidents didn't seem to bother my kids so much, then I wouldn't let them bother me. Chris, as a kid who saw more than his share of bullying in school, has told the kids that it's ok to hit a kid who hits them first. Fight back, don't roll over. The situation has never escalated to that point, thank heavens. It's mostly mean words, with physical bullying only occurring twice that I can recall. Both of those times happened to Petey and when he told the playground monitor and his teacher he was told that nothing could be done if he couldn't tell her the name of the kid.

Yes, I'll be talking to the teacher for sure.