I hope I am seeing it. The light at the end of the tunnel. Not the one you see when you are dying. No, I’m not suicidal, calm down! The one you see at the end of a long journey or trial.
‘The Girl’ has been having some issues at school. Some bullying issues. Harassment by some kids. Some rumors have been started. Some slander of her good name has ensued. I have been quite distressed over this and so has she.
We had a talk with the correct authorities and we are hoping that things will calm down now. As of the last couple days of school, things were still happening that were bothersome, but the principle at the school was taking care of it.
I am glad that he seems to be on top of things. When I told him ‘The Girl’ was so upset about recent things that she didn’t even want to go to school there anymore, he was surprised and seemed genuinely concerned. He also wanted to quickly resolve the problem so that ‘The Girl’ felt safe and happy at school. And since she spends the majority of her day there 5 days a week about 8 1/2 – 9 months out of the year, that sounded like a good plan to me!
With my daughter’s bubbly, friendly spirit, bullying is something I never thought I would have to deal with. But here I am smack dab in the middle of it.
It is not okay to bully someone just because you feel threatened by them in some way, people. If they have a stronger friendship with someone than you, SO WHAT! You can have more than one friend at a time. And it’s okay that they spend more time with someone else sometimes! You wanna know why their bond is stronger?? Because one lost their father and the other lost her brother. That’s why their friendship is so strong. They have a special bond that most people can’t understand because they haven’t had the kind of loss and pain these girls have been through. And hopefully they never will!
But instead of trying to understand them, let’s start rumors about them and cause problems! Yeah that is always a good idea. I just don’t understand high school drama.
If it doesn’t end, I will take it to the police and I will pull her from the school. A little over a year ago we had a scare with ‘The Girl’ with some depression and some scary stuff and I’m not about to sit and watch her spiral out of control again. I won’t do it.
So to all those out there who think it’s fun to start rumors and call names and just be punks in general. It’s not OK. How would you like it if someone did it to you? And you can puff out your chest and say it wouldn’t bother you at all ALL.YOU.WANT. But it would. It would bother you if you had to dread going to school every day because you never knew what new thing was going to be said about you. Or what new person was going to threaten to beat the crap out of you. It’s not fun! It needs to stop! It will stop! One way or the other, IT.WILL.STOP.
We can end this with police involvement or without, it’s your choice. I am a very reasonable person. But I am done being the nice, happy go lucky person who is everyone’s friend. Not that we can’t be friend’s, but this is my child you are messing with, so if you are gonna mess with my kid, we can’t be friends! You have brought out the Mama Bear in me.
You think I’m bluffing? Try me!
