DD is average for her age but small for her grade. I have coached her to cry in private but maintain the stuff upper lip in public as nothing makes a bully stop (that doesn't involve at least a suspension) as quickly as being ignored.

She will be going into 6th grade but sitting with the 8th graders upper track for Maths and those pre-pubescent boys are going to be mean I am am sure particularly when they get beaten by a girl! LOL

Become what you are