‘I thought the harassment of my daughter had stopped, but what I realized is heartbreaking’

‘I thought the harassment of my daughter had stopped, but what I realized is heartbreaking’
‘I thought the harassment of my daughter had stopped, but what I realized is heartbreaking’

School bullying is the repeated experience of verbal, psychological or physical violence from one or other students. A mother testified to HuffPost about the harassment her daughter suffered in primary school.

Léa Page, a mother, testified to our colleagues at HuffPost about the harassment suffered by his daughter Nina. “Arriving early to pick up my daughter Nina from elementary school, I parked my car in a parking space across the street and scanned the playground for her. Most The boys ran around the playground in a hilarious Mad Max version of football. A handful of girls were playing with a red ball and the rest were either swinging at the play structure or crouching in small groups.

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“I spotted Nina sitting on one of the benches, her back hunched, her head down. One of the ball players gave her a mocking look. And the other three players followed. Nina didn’t didn’t move, so the player with the ball threw it at her Nina raised her face, a grimace of pain or anger, I couldn’t tell, and shouted something to the other girls. .

Nina was the victim of school bullying from CE1 class

Contrary to what the mother might have thought, the supervisor did not even make the effort to reprimand the young harassers. The supervisor put her hands on her hips as she spoke to Nina. The other girls didn’t even try to hide their smirks. Then the bell rang and the kids lined up to go inside It was a miracle I didn’t wreck the car when Nina told me on the way home that the teacher had made her stand in front of the class and apologize for disrupting recess and. not having respected his classmates (…) The bullying started in CE1 The town was small, the school even smaller. Most of the children in Nina’s class had played at our house, taken our car and had. played. played. played the food that we always distribute at various events” .

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If his children were initially nice to his daughter, everything changed between CP and CE1. “Every day our once vibrant daughter came home calmer, pale and withdrawn. For a while, Nina asked me why the girls were so mean to her, but my answer, that we loved her, was useless.” When Nina’s mother tried to talk about the incident at the playground, her teacher claimed that her daughter was “responsible for his behavior”. After trying to speak with the school counselor and the bullies’ parents, the mother turned to books about bullying for advice. “I tried to prepare Nina by teaching her not to show the bullies that she was hurt, which makes her a target and it is the display of her pain that makes the bullies more likely to torment her.”

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School harassment: this radical solution that Nina’s family took

Despite the threat of a complaint and repeated trips to school, Nina’s family made a radical decision: to move. “When the bullies attacked my daughter, our community made its choice, which left us with only one option: to move away. It was only by taking physical distance that we all were able to delight our inner sparks”

Nina made friends after moving to another city. But her past as a victim of harassment follows her until today when she is in her twenties.

With her wealth of experience in several editorial offices, Doriane is today an expert on celebrity subjects, without forgetting television and cinema, which no longer hold any secrets for…

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