Your daughter has never been mean to another child in class once since I've been her teacher. Even when she was being picked on, she would call the other kids names back. She would go over to her desk, put her head down, and cry. She will always tell me what goes on, and she's even inadvertently snitched on other students because she is unwilling to lie, even though she doesn't want to get anyone in trouble.
I don't think she has the thick skin needed to get through junior high, and I don't want her honesty to be punished by other kids because she isn't doing it to cause trouble; she's just genuinely an honest kid.
I remembered my time in junior high and knew her teacher was right; kids who were different did get targeted and picked on ruthlessly during those years.
We immediately decided to home-school her for all of her middle school years after that because we had already dealt with her being bullied over not having any crushes on boys at her last school.
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