Boy asks Santa to make kids stop bullying his sister

[SvennoJ]

Reading the comment I see the blame the victim mentality is still strong, plus some 'innocent' jokes, which is how it always starts. Bullying isn't going away any time soon. Being fat is not a reason to get picked on, period, end of story, no justification whatsoever.

In most of the experiences I had with bullying it was actually the 'fat' kids that were the bullies. Not easy as a 10 year old to fight of a kid twice your size. And in 1 case it was the whole class turning on one girl, just because she joined halfway during the year. Group mentality, great thing, not.

The latest experience has been with my nephew. He is slightly autistic, nothing he can do about it (I don't even notice it myself) Other then that he functions normally. Yet easy target at school. At first the school didn't do anything. He didn't want to go to school anymore, rather stayed home crying. His mother raised hell at his school for years to get them to pay more attention to him. It was no use. Now he has been re-re-re-evaluated, got the full stamp of autism, and can now join a special school for autistic children. Pushed into a corner for being slightly different.