I am trying to reach out and find out if anyone else is having trouble with their children or friends of their children who are being bullied. We need to stop it soon. I know it has been on going for years and am tired of being told that it is being handled or that we should teach our kids how to deal with it. Is anyone else feed up?

Griping about it on this forum may bring awareness to some extent. However, you need to be more proactive. You need to continue to call, show up or write. You cannot let up. School administrators are very busy, I'm not making excuses, but you need to make your cause one of their priorities or else it gets put on the bottom of the list. I work at a school and I see it all the time, if students/parents are not persistent situations will be overlooked and forgotten about.

I would suggest the power of numbers. Find other students who are being bullied, get in contact with their parents and attend/ask to be put on the agenda for the next board meeting, and after or before that, ask to set up a meeting with administration and counseling. I'm telling you, this will work, but you NEED to follow through.

Give me a break! Why dont you ask the parents to beg? Document, film and record. Put on Youtube, provide the link and you will see action faster than someone can respond to this post. Get an attorney!

The School adminisrators do seem to "busy" and here lies the problem.

Call or show up at the school every day to speak with the principal. If/when that stops working, go straight to the superintendent and tell them that you are very serious about letting the media know that there is a bullying problem in the school. Tell more parents, write a letter to the editor, contact local newspapers. Trust me, once you start letting them know that you have no intentions of letting up, they will change their tone and start taking it seriously. Not to mention the legal ramifications if/when the principal ignores what is happening and allows children to be harassed in what is supposed to be a SAFE environment. Good luck and whatever you do, don't give up.

been there been doing that for 3 months....had meetings after meetings...sat in the office with with 2 other parents and their child who were all attacked by the same group of kids....and like i said....their punishment was 2 dance suspension...have sent numerous emails to each and every board member...i can only be so presistant and spend so much time at the school...every day life has to be taken care of as well...its a sad sitution that the school seems to think we are making a bigger issue out of it then it really is in their eyes..i often wonder if it dont come down to a case of who the bullies parents all...after all in this case in paticular one of the bullies parents works directly with the superintendent....

I don't know what you consider everyday life, but this is a part of it. So what if the dishes pile up, or the yard goes not mowed, or you have to make a phone call on your lunch hour. This is your child for Christ's sake. Call the cops, press harassment charges. Quit making excuses and FOLLOW THROUGH. I'm not trying to sound harsh but there are things you can do, don't let the school tell you otherwise.

excuse me i know this is my child....there are school resource officers that are invovled and we can not press harrassment charges due to the age....trust me that avenue has been covered...

Thanks so much for all the input. This is why I posted. I want everyone to know that there is a bigger problem going on that we may not all be aware of since we don't always see all the parents. We should keep talking and letting others know that no one is alone and we should all work on fixing this together. Again thanks.

What are the names of those that have been told in the school system that have done "nothing"?

Write a letter to the editor for the Fingerlakes Times. I bet it would peak some interest.