[ScipioCowboy]

Originally Posted by VietCowboy

I have a feeling a lot of people posting in this thread would have told their child who was complaining about other student in the class teasing them to quite their whining or STAND UP FOR YOURSELF. Most kids do get through life with bullying, but it is still bullying regardless of the degree of inflicted harm on the victim.

Bullying, of any kind, is an act intended to threaten, coerce, or inflict harm. Insulting someone, particularly if it was repeatedly like in this situation across perpetrators. Just read many website's definition of bullying and you'll see this fits in.

http://www.bullyonline.org/workbully/bully.htm

http://pbskids.org/itsmylife/friends/bullies/

- emphasis added by me

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