Criteeker, your story makes me wonder if bullies grow up to be abusers of their spouses. I wonder if that girlfriend or wife had experienced some of the same treatment or if it was all news to her.
And I've actually heard lots of bully stories about kids in Christian schools too, mickiesings57. It is hard when a kid is emotionally bullying a child and keeps trying to seek that kid out day after day.
Well, this school year has gotten started off pretty rough for us. One child stole my child's special gluten free pretzels and ate them one day. And then the next day she dug her fingernails into her leg deeply enough to make her leg still red that night when my kid got up the guts to tell me about it. Even though she told a teacher each time immediately, that other child got a "warning" each time. She also emotionally bullies my kid. And that was only during the first week of school. When I pushed the issue and the principle spoke with her, she said that she "had a pretty short memory" and didn't recall doing it. I'm pretty mad that the school has a discipline policy that they do not follow consistently.
And that's not to mention that I had to get an extra doctor's note so that my kids could get their food warmed at school after they instituted a new policy with no warning and my oldest didn't get to eat the first day of school.
Then my 5-year-old who is in kindergarten was forgotten in the bathroom and her class was taken to the media center. She said she stood by the door of the empty classroom and thankfully another teacher noticed and helped her to the media center.
Whew...I'm done for now. I feel like Chevy Chase on that scene in Christmas vacation where he ends by asking "Where's the Tylenol?"