How to Support Bullied Daughter

sylvan8798
Sun, 16 Oct 2011 10:50:58 +0000

I am hearing a lot of things in your posts. I think you should step back and take another look at this situation from the perspective of an outsider. Several points, and I don’t mean this to sound harsh: If your DD envisions herself to be in some type of leadership position in the future, she needs to do 2 things - grow a thick skin and grow a spine. Think about all the crap our elected leaders have to go through just to get elected. Look at the amount of criticism and abuse our president takes - and the secret service isn’t there for the fun of it. There are people who would kill him if they could (not just Obama, any of them).



CCsiteObsessed:

I also think part of the problem is that DD could run circles around this person in terms of competence and teaching this class, and the teacher knows this and knows that DD knows this.

This ^ is a real problem. If this is how your DD approaches this person, then she should drop this class immediately. There is no point to being in a class where she cannot learn anything, and she can’t learn anything from someone who she sees as knowing less than SHE does. Kind of by definition. All she can do there is undermine any effort the teacher may be making with the OTHER students. If that means dropping her position as SB President, she should do that too.