Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on July 18, 2007 - 12:22.
It doesn't just happen on the Internet, and sometimes the girls don't hide. When my daughter was in sixth grade a friend called her and started asking her leading questions about another girl at school. (The other girl was making the nasty statements about the girl, and my daughter was just saying "um, yeah, I guess." Little did my daughter know, but the girl they were talking about and several others were listening(they were chained together in conference calls.)
When she got to school the next day, she was encircled by a gang of angry peers. They yelled and screamed and intimidated her. Needless to say, she didn't know what to do or think.
It took several weeks for us to figure out what was going on. When I went to the school, their solution was peer counseling, which sounded like a good idea to me. My daughter refused to go because the peer counselors were the girls involved! The school refused to get involved and would not hold a meeting for the girls to work things out. I pulled her out of school, got her counseling and homeschooled her for a year. When she returned for 8th grade things were somewhat better, because my daughter had learned some coping skills. However, the girls were still intimidating to her.
This was a nightmare for her, and eight years later she is still feeling the scars from that experience.
It doesn't just happen on
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on July 18, 2007 - 12:22.
It doesn't just happen on the Internet, and sometimes the girls don't hide. When my daughter was in sixth grade a friend called her and started asking her leading questions about another girl at school. (The other girl was making the nasty statements about the girl, and my daughter was just saying "um, yeah, I guess." Little did my daughter know, but the girl they were talking about and several others were listening(they were chained together in conference calls.)
When she got to school the next day, she was encircled by a gang of angry peers. They yelled and screamed and intimidated her. Needless to say, she didn't know what to do or think.
It took several weeks for us to figure out what was going on. When I went to the school, their solution was peer counseling, which sounded like a good idea to me. My daughter refused to go because the peer counselors were the girls involved! The school refused to get involved and would not hold a meeting for the girls to work things out. I pulled her out of school, got her counseling and homeschooled her for a year. When she returned for 8th grade things were somewhat better, because my daughter had learned some coping skills. However, the girls were still intimidating to her.
This was a nightmare for her, and eight years later she is still feeling the scars from that experience.