From: Alixwrites at aol.com <Alixwrites>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:09:19 EDT

 
  In a message dated 3/17/2008 4:37:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time, monicaedinger at gmail.com writes:

The DVD of Mean Girls came out that fall and the central mean/most popular/hated/beloved/girl lent it to me.

Ha! There was a clique in my daughter's 4th grade class (not even going to get into whether 4th graders should be watching this movie) that actually
*called* themselves the Mean Girls, with pride. The other girls were either the Weird Girls or the Normals. My daughter was a Weird Girl.
  I think teachers try to prevent bullying, but the problem is that the bullied kids are so much less savvy than the bullies. With my daughter, she'd get bullied, and not tell the teacher, then say something back, and they'd tell on her. So she'd get in trouble. She actually got written up for bullying once. I'd think anyone with logic skills could tell that my daughter (who is 6 inches shorter than the other kids, has ADD, writes on herself, and has perpetually messy hair) is a victim, but the bullies would back each other up. She's been doing better since I told her to tattle, tattle, tattle -- not the tenth time someone picks on her, but the first. When the bullies got in trouble five or six times, they stopped, and she says some of them are actually nice to her now.

  Best, Alexandra Flinn www.alexflinn.com

Beastly (HarperCollins, October, 2007)
"a must-read for all fairy tale fans" -- School Library Journal



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