My daughter is in the same class with a boy from last year that picked on her.

I am sorry to hear that. I would suggest you make an appointment to speak to your child's head teacher. Then you could explain the boy picks on your daughter. It might be possible for the two children to be separated into different classes. if not they could sit at opposite ends of the class and the boy could be supervised by staff on duty at playtime. My sister has a similar problem to you. A boy has been expelled from countless schools. Now he is in the same class as my nephew which is terrible.

hello there mommaj..ohh girll i have been there more times than i imagined i would..my son is 7 now..and hes very bright..and makes friends very easily..but when he first went to Kindergarten there was a boy that always would hurt him..he rarely told me..after the fact when the year was over..but a cpl times id tell his teacher..then last year the same boy..got much worse and Skylar would come home and tell me..id write the teacher..email her..and nothing happened..ione day he came home from school..the boy threw him off a table and hit his back on a metal pipe..he hurt is soo badddd..and no teachers were anywhere to be found..i marched down the next morning..said iwanted my child out of that class nowwww or i was sueing the school,,,he herniated a disc..and to this day it hurts every other week..and thats what tshe did,,so thats what i say to do..tell the principal u want her into another class..and if he doesnt..go directly to the superintendent..theres only so much a child can take..i know they need to deal with being picked up to a point to learn to grow from it..but look what happnes with kids getting killed by other kids when theer at the boiling point now adays...lots of luck~~~ April

Almost every child has this experience at one point or another. The question is did the boy tease her or bully her? Teasing for the most part can be harmless and is usually done in some misguided manner of letting a girl know the boy likes her. Bullying is another matter and indicates a potential problem in the home of the bully since the behavior is usually learned from a caregiver. Unfortunately there may be little you can do other than daily reinforce your child's self esteem so that she will not be an easy target. Books and videos about bullying are a good idea and you could ask the teacher to show the video to the entire class. My school operates on what it calls the "Charter Way" which is a list of principles that teach children about character. One of those principles is caring (another is respect) and so regular school activities that teach children about caring will help foster better behavior towards each other. School year before last I made a large tree from paper and put it up in the downstairs entry. I distributed paper photocopies of "flowers" to the k-3 teachers asking them to have the kids think of ways to show caring and write them on the petals. The activity was based on a lesson plan I saw online somewhere for a kindness tree. Activities like this and posters help reinforce ideas for kids when it comes to concepts behind words because for most of them words are just something they have learned to use in sentences but they have no real sense of the meanings behind them. Talk to your child's teacher about it as well as the principal and see if you can get the entire school involved in showing caring.