would you change schools if your son is bulllied excessively in his school?

In this sort of situation, my first step is to try to help my kid learn to just walk away, unfortunately, sometimes, walking away does no good. I would then go to the school and report the problem. Lets face it, teachers do not always know there is a problem. Then, if necessary, I would talk to the kid myself to see if there may be more going on than I know about. If needed, I would then talk to that kids' parents. The best solution would be that there were no bullies at all, but that just is not realistic. I think as parents, we should teach our kds to treat each other as we want to be treated, but in the even that they are being bullied, know how and when to defend themselves. I have taught my kids to take the proper steps and go through the proper channels to try to handle a situation, but if a bully ever hits them, defend themselves. Sometimes, all it takes to stop a bully is for the bully to find out that the kid he/she is bullying is a bit tougher than the bully thought. Would I confront the bully's parents? Yes, if I felt it was necessary. WOuld I move my kid to a different school? Probably not. The situation would have to be way out of control for me to consider that.

I was bullied for 1st-4th grade. My parents switched schools, but it wasn't even because I was being bullied! The school I transferred to was better academically. When I got therem however, things got worse. There wasn't one thing I could do without having someone make some demeaning and slanderous remark towards me. There was no more than 2-3 people that told me to ignore it. However, those were the people that had life on the easy side. They didn't have to worry about walking into a classroom full of kids eagerly awaiting their arrival. Instead, these were the kind of kids that had an extremely supportive family. Everyone was happy-go-lucky. I know that their lives were far from perfect but I knew that their suffering was on a much smaller scale. After 2 years at this school, I graduated elementary and moved onto middle school. Kids were still a-holes but I was able to take more higher level and in turn escaped half of the suffering I had gone through before. Sometimes changing schools will help people. Other times it just makes things worse. I had friends that had undergone the same dilemma but it was of a greater magnitude. Some kids had been to nearly 10 different schools and every single one of them had persecuted him/her ruthlessly. I guess it really comes down to people. Changing schools is easy but changing people, now that's a challenge all on its own. Have fun, love life!

I would change schools if my son is being bullied excessively in his school. It shows that the administration of the school isn't firm enough to punish the bullies and nobody is safe because the school itself cannot control its students. There's no sense keeping my son in that same school when all they are instilling on him is fear from bullies instead of having to learn something in school. If I would know he's being bullied, even once, I'd go to the school directly to talk about the matter, if no action has been done, I'd go directly to the government with it and transfer my son in a better school. I may look like a stage-mom but what has a little boy got to defend himself? Those bullies are just motivating students to gear up into teams and gangs to counter the bullies when in fact that's the school's responsibility to instill discipline and that nothing like that happens. I'm glad I was enrolled in a private school all my student life, nothing like that ever happened. Yes there were bullies, but they just looked like bullies, but never really did anything to be one because they know attitude like that isn't tolerated in school.

Yes! If its the only way to get my child study well. I mean there's a lot of schools here in the Philippines and transferring is very easy. If he/she wants to be transferred, why not. Another reason is that, I wanted to erased such bad experience from my child's memory and the only thing to do is for her/him to be in another school.

yes. i want safety for my child. and eventually i would teach my child too how to fight fairly. =)

saftey is most need thing in life. So i will teach my son to fight if he is need to face terror...!