This mama bear is broken hearted.
So one of the writing prompts for the MEAP (standardized state test) this year was "If you could change anything in your school, what would you change?" Emeline wrote about changing bullying. It got flagged by Lansing and sent to superintendent and then her principal. I got to go to the principal's office today and talk about Emeline's essay. She is still getting bullied. She feels alone and scared. They make fun of her for being the smallest and the youngest. The principal gave me a copy of what she wrote and I read it in his office and started crying. My poor baby.
Some of it was from 2nd grade and some was from earlier in the year before they got the permanent gym teacher, but my heart is broken.
What kills me is that she knows to not be alone because "bullies won't be mean to you if you are with someone else because they'll be afraid to do it in front of other people because they might tell." Why does she have to know that? It breaks me that she has to know that. And has to do it.
I made sure when we talked about it that she knew she was NOT in trouble and NO ONE was mad at her for what she wrote and that she was so brave for putting that down on paper and that she is probably helping other kids to not get bullied. We have scheduled a meeting with the principal for next week. She is upset about the meeting with the principal. She thinks the kids will make fun of her for "being in trouble".
But being her awesome self, she wants to do an anti-bullying project and make posters to hang up in the school and talk to kids about how bullying makes other kids feel. She doesn't want other kids to feel alone and scared.
Joe and I told her that we were so proud of her and that she was so brave to write all that down.
Maybe I'll just home school.