We had numerous meetings with the teacher & director where we brought very detailed accounts of what had taken place. We also had other children who were classmates who had told their parents what our child was experiencing. Initially, we called these incidents bullying. We are very solution-based and offered to work with the school and if need be, pay for additional supervision on the playground where most of this took place and to pay for training for the playground supervisors so they would be able to recognize bullying, we also offered to pay for books on friendship and inculsion, we submitted many studies on bullying by the CDC to the school's administrators and psychologist. The consensus was that bullying is simply a North American concept that doesn't really exist, we were the problem, being the typical overly protective North American parents. Please keep in mind, this is our response to the question asked on this thread, we are simply answering the question. To have revealed our experience to others understandably opens us up once again to be on the defensive. Forgive me if I do not respond further on this subject. Our experience was very painful particularly because of the deep wounds it left in our daughter & because after so many years here we felt that we had built up a community of friends. Only three families stood by us and only one of those advocated for us at the school.
Let there be peace on this forum or i'm gonna be forced to use my superpowers and we don't want that!
