Hi everyone! I'm at a loss here, so I came to you all for some advice. I hope that's OK.

Hi everyone! I'm at a loss here, so I came to you all for some advice. I hope that's OK. I have a girl in middle school. Yes, I know...heaven help me. She is in a small private school. She was homeschooled for a couple years and reenrolled into the school. Kids She has known and played sports with for years without issue. Well the year started off ok. Occasional mean comments here and there. Pretty standard stuff for girls this age. Then it started to ramp up around September. Mean comments, isolation, ignoring, verbal ambushes, etc. Every single day would bring something, so I reached out to the school. Female teacher pretty much had an open forum festivus with them. I didn't necessarily agree with it, but things did die down from a boil to a simmer. This lasted to roughly mid December when it all started to ramp up again. She couldn't even laugh without horribly mean stuff being said to her. Harassment via text, harassment via a game, public humiliation, isolation. You name it, it happened. The only thing that did not occur was anything physical. It got so bad that we responded to a text on her phone asking the student to leave her alone. Well that made a parent mad. It was at this point the school told us to file a formal, confidential report. So we did...trusting the school. Well, it did not stay confidential. Parents were/are irate. We were both getting angry messages but those messages didn't fully make sense in the context of what happened. Basically far more angrier than they should have been. She is now completely socially isolated. Her ex best friend has taken on the role of the queen bee. Some of the girls are trying to talk to and communicate with her. Not best friends by any stretch, but civil. However, her ex best friend will not let it die. Anyone that tries to be friends with her gets berated by this girl until they decide to take the path of least resistance. She's also decided that she's going to just sit and talk about her family in class. Last week she decided to say that I was showing up places trying to fight her mom. Which is entirely false and fabricated. I'm at a loss of what to do here. Yes, transferring schools us obviously a choice high on the list. But I'm also trying to keep my reputation in tact as well as not be accused of some absolutely un true stuff and have parents thinking I'm trying to fight them. So what's my move here, educators? submitted by /u/wtfworld22 [link] [comments]