Growing up is a child's own experience
By Han Junhong | China Daily | Updated: 2016-11-15 07:28
It happened last year, when my daughter was a primary school second grader. I noticed she was always upset in the mornings before she went to school, and for several days she used excuses such as stomach aches to delay leaving home.
I assumed that she was in some sort of trouble, especially as she was not doing well academically at the time. Eventually, I asked her if anything was wrong, and she told me she was being bullied by a classmate who sat in front of her and whose grades were quite good.
The classmate often intercepted her exercise books when they were handed down from the front to the back. He accused her of dragging down the entire class because of her poor grades, as well as mocking and teasing her. He also hid her belongings.
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