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My daughter was being bullied soon after we moved to the area. It was mostly happening on the bus and immediately after being dropped off at the bus stop.

The school has a zero tolerance policy and were trying to find out the name of the girl who was bullying. The apartment managers found out what was happening and met my daughter at the bus the next day. Had her show them who it was...confronted the girl with an ultimatum...”if you bully her or anyone else in the apartments, your entire family will be evicted”. They called the school to tell them who it was, and the whole matter had been resolved.

Or so we thought...the girl is starting to get onery again. The mom doesn’t speak english (she wears a face veil). She tells another person she thinks I am crazy (because I dare to accuse her child, after her child was caught throwing my daughter to the ground by her hair and kicking her).

I’m going to teach my daughter how to pick up an equalizer...such as a stick, a steel bar, or a broken table leg...and defend herself!

Send her for Kung-fu lessons.

My nephew was heavily bullied by a kid in his 5th grade class at a Catholic Parochial school. The principal wouldn’t do anything because the Catholic school was the bully’s last chance as that boy had been expelled from three public schools for violence and had been held back twice for insufficient grade scores. He was almost 10 inches taller and two years older than my nephew. But my boy had already earned his junior black belt and the two boys settled their differences after school off the school property. The other kid never came back to school and his guardians moved the family to another state.

And my nephew? He was suspended for two days by the Parochial school for not turning the other cheek. The next year we started homeschooling. He is now 16 years old, in Masters training at the Kung-fu academy and an associate instructor of children in the martial arts. His future looks bright and he feels good about himself.