‘My daughter was bullied and we didn’t feel supported by the school’ [Video]

LAST UPDATE | 15 hrs ago

MY ELDEST STAYED home one day this week, due to the effects of stress caused by a group of students in her year. I’d like to say this is a once-off, but since they both started school, it feels like we are forever helping them to process the actions of others. And it is genuinely so gut-wrenching to watch your kids go through the most awful situations, and experience things that they just shouldn’t have to.

I want to be clear that I am not talking about physical violence here, I am referring to other negative behaviours experienced in school, that are often just viewed as ‘part of life’ or maybe even ‘character building’. 

I am talking about kids who have no friends for months on end, rumour spreading, receiving threats either through someone else or via text, nasty comments, backstabbing and outcasting. It feels like kids are getting meaner…