Last week, dd's (private) school publicly admitted in writing that there had been recent incidences of bullying in the elementary school. Whatever happened recently must have been pretty significant to be acknowledged by the administration as a problem. When it happened to us two years earlier, the school's focus went to how to make dd not stand out so much and attempting to label her with a diagnosis. No one, outside the family, ever told dd that she wasn't retarded or that using that word was wrong. Maybe all the media coverage of bullying these days can help our kids get the support they need.
