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Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA
I added the italicized text after having seen two schools that were rather intense about the whole "kind language" environmental approach. And in both cases, bullies remained just as much a part of the school day as they were back in my day , the only difference was in how subtle they were when there were adults right in the middle of them.
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One thing that really irritates me about our daughter's school is that they teach the kids to use "I messages" to get their point across. I wish I could remember details about this specific incident, but the jist of it is that Larissa (our 9 year old) was grabbed and pulled by a kid and she told this kid how she felt (per this stupid rule). This of course did nothing, but when she told me, I told her if a kid grabbed her or she felt physically threatened in any way, she has my permission to defend herself. These bullshit "I messages" won't do shit if my daughter is getting pushed, grabbed, or hurt in any way. It seriously drives me nuts.