• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Bullying goes unpunished everywhere. We had to take my daughter out of school here in Indiana and put her in online school because she was being bullied by virtually every kid in the school. The bullied kids were bullying here. The school did nothing despite our pleas. Once, she was doxxed by a couple of sisters on Discord who also prank called her a whole bunch of times. The school made both the sisters and my daughter apologize to each other. Online school requires one parent as a “learning coach” (i.e. I have to make sure she stays on track all day), which meant going down to one income. I’m not sure what other choice we had since she started having self-harm thoughts.

    And maybe a month later, one of her few friends, who basically became her replacement at that school when my daughter left, got pulled out by her parents and put in online school.

    I mentioned this in another thread- my daughter has another friend in that school who is trans. Not only does the school deadname him despite his parents’ pleas and force him to use the girls’ bathroom and locker room, but the other day, a girl was being a bigot against him and he slapped her. He got out-of-school suspension. Nothing happened to the girl.

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      1 year ago

      Bullying goes unpunished everywhere, but especially after Trump’s presidency, and now the problem is becoming systemic.

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    1 year ago

    How much you want to bet that the ones that bullied them were some of the students who walked out?

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    Do you think I could start a charity that sends free T-shirts to high schoolers that say things like “no gods, no masters” “trans rights are humans rights”?