My DD8 3rd grade has gotten crankier over the last couple of months and has been saying some things about school. I've tried talking to the teacher with mixed results (some over defensiveness, some dismissing) but DD is getting more verbal about some of the bullying issues and more insistant. She's gone from cranky to blaaaah and then acting scared to meet new kids. She got sick several days ago and has been home and talking more. I gave her a notebook to make a list of the stuff that's been happening and I'm sorry to say it's worse than I realized.

It's such a shame what "different" or more intense/emotional kids have to go through in school. There's always been bullying of some kind but there is a different twist to it these days and unfortunately sometime supported by the school through indifference or whatever the case.